This may be a good news for those who had scored very good percentage in their XII board exam as Marks scored in the Plus Two board examinations are going to decide your eligibility in the Joint  Entrance Examination (IITJEE) for admission into the prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) by 2011.

Union human resource development ministry  has set up a committee of IITs professors ,  to suggest reforms to JEE, is expected to submit its report recommending ways to consider the marks scored by students in higher secondary examinations while preparing the IIT merit list. A meeting of all IIT directors and JEE representatives in Chennai over the weekend discussed the proposed changes.

“We hope to devise a methodology to compute a normalised Plus Two cut-off eligibility score for each educational board (CBSE, ICSE, and State Boards). once it’s approved, then only students who have scored this cut-off mark would become eligible to appear for JEE,” said IIT Madras deputy director V G Idichandy, who is heading the committee

Four years ago, IIT standing council had proposed 85% marks in XII as  minimum cut off percentage for JEE but it has been reduced to 60%  by considering it too high for benchmark

In the current  scenario the admission processes in IITs ,nowhere consider the XII marks in process which is opposed by various committees as it totally ignore the importance of XII board exam and give rise to coaching culture

From 2010-11 academic session the Delhi Technological University (DTU) would be admitting aspirants from the NCT on the basis of their All India Engineering Entrance Examination (AIEEE) conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE). Formerly known as the Delhi College of Engineering, an affiliated college of Delhi University (DU), DTU has been upgraded to an university. While changing its admission policy DTU has now decided to complete the admission process for its undergraduate programmes on the basis of merit of rank of AIEEE results.

DTU has 85% of seats reserved for Delhi candidates and 15% for outside Delhi students. While students for outside Delhi category has been admitted on the basis of rank obtained in AIEEE so far, the students from Delhi were selected on the basis of the rank obtained in the Combined Entrance Examination of DU. “From the next academic session the admissions for both the category would be based on AIEEE rank, through the counselling conducted by DTU,” said assistant registrar, K Singh.

The admissions would be made to 14 BTech courses including 10 programmes of the erstwhile DCE, and four new courses introduced this year including B Tech in software engineering, electrical and electronics engineering, automotive engineering and engineering physics. The combined intake of these courses would be 910.

Panel of NIT Directors to decide on Online AIEEE

AIEEE may go Online from next Year

The government has set up a committee of National Institute of Technology (NIT) directors to explore the possibility of making the AIEEE exam online, in addition to the regular pen and paper test. The committee will submit its report by January 2010.

The committee will also deliberate on giving Class XII board exam marks weightage during the entrance exam. This came up after NIT directors said that the proliferation of coaching institutes was skewing the pattern of entrants into NITs.

Nearly 10 lakh students appeared for AIEEE for roughly 24,000 seats in engineering colleges across the country. This includes NITs, state engineering colleges, the Indian Institutes of Information Technology (IIITs) and deemed and central universities. The number of aspirants is expected to increase significantly over the next few years and the NIT council feels that an online test would facilitate the process.

IIT JEE 2011 Assessment Test Scheduled on October 10

FIITJEE Limited, the IIT JEE coaching institute, will conduct a Talent Support Exam 2010 on October 10, 2010, across 45 test centers. The last date of registration is October 5, 2010. The main objective of the test is to evaluate candidate’s preparedness for the IIT JEE 2011.

The test will be taken by Class XII as well as those students who will appear for CBSE Board next year.  The test is designed to assess their preparedness and determine their chances of success along with getting probable ranks through the Rank Potential Index (RPI) and Success Potential Index (SPI) obtained in the Talent Support Exam.

The examination test paper will have questions based on the combined JEE syllabi of Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics at 45 FIIITJEE centers. Details of the syllabi and the Intensive Contact Programme are available in the website: http://www.fiitjee.com/ or ftse.htm. Results will be made available in the official website of FIITJEE on October 16, 2010.