NDTV - Jun 30, 2012
This week, the standoff between the Education Ministry and the IIT's on the IIT entrance exam came to an end. On the surface it may seem like yet another turf war between Kapil Sibal and India's elite educational institutions, but at a deeper level, ...
Times of India - 10 hours ago
KANPUR: The city schools have welcomed the IIT Council's compromise formula of allowing only top 20% students of each of the boards to appear in the entrance test for seeking admission in the IITs. The school managements believe that this compromise ...
Times of India - 11 hours ago
INDORE: With the Indian Institute of Technology ( IIT) council deciding to accept only the top 20 percentile students from every board for the elite educational institutes, performance pressure has started piling up on the students aspiring to crack ...
Hindustan Times - 13 hours ago
While the country is debating on the pros and cons of making school boards a part of the IIT-JEE, here's a story of an IIT alumnus who had scored just 39% in boards. After completing his graduation, he went on to get a doctorate from Europe and is ...
The Hindu - 13 hours ago
The ostensible purpose for which Minister Kapil Sibal sought to replace the IIT-JEE with a common entrance test for engineering was to reduce the burden of students who had to write multiple exams. But the new formula places more burden on students ...
Hindustan Times - 14 hours ago
From next year, even topping the Joint Entrance Exam (JEE) may not be enough to secure a seat at the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs). An IIT aspirant will have to also be within the top 20 percentile in their Class 12 board exam.
Hindu Business Line - 18 hours ago
IITs may be 'centres of excellence', but that is no reason to stall the move for a common admission exam with other central colleges, many of which are top notch as well. The new norms for admission to the IITs and other central engineering colleges, ...
I(I)T's back to coaching
Hindu Business Line - 1 hour ago
IITs may be 'centres of excellence', but that is no
reason to stall the move for a common admission exam with other central
colleges, many of which are top notch as well. The new norms for
admission to the IITs and other central engineering colleges, ...
Debate Rages on IIT Exams But Compromise Near
Wall Street Journal (blog) -
7 hours ago
By Saptarishi Dutta Changes afoot in the way students
must apply for a coveted place in one of the nation's 16 elite Indian
Institutes of Technology continue to cause a row although a compromise
looks within reach. Currently, the IITs run their own ...
IIT-Delhi alumni association reject compromise agreement
Times of
India - 10 hours ago
NEW DELHI: The alumni association
of IIT-Delhi on Thursday "rejected" the compromise agreement reached by
IIT directors on Wednesday on holding the common exams saying the
decision is against the interest of students. It said the 20 percentile
criteria ...
IIT's new admission norms: More stress in store for aspirants?
Economic
Times - 11 hours ago
BANGALORE | NEW DELHI: Ayan Agrawal
has just made it to the biotech stream at IITDelhi this year. His rank
in JEE 2012 was 3532 and his XIIth standard CBSE percentage 77.2%. Had
the new IIT admission norms announced on Wednesday come into force last ...
New IIT pattern will test aspirants in three levels
The Hindu - 11 hours ago
The new method evolved for the IIT admissions from next
year has shaken the aspirants from the State as they would be filtered
through three layers as against just one exam of the existing pattern.
As per the new method evolved, aspirants have to ...
School Boards to announce percentile of top 20 students in a week
Times of
India - 12 hours ago
NEW DELHI: School Boards across the
country on Thursday decided to make available the percentile of top 20
candidates within seven days to help students get a clear picture of the
marks required to be eligible for IIT entrance.
IIT-Delhi alumni rejects compromise agreement, calls new formula contrary
Firstpost -
12 hours ago
New Delhi: The IIT Delhi Alumni Association on
Thursday rejected the human resource development (HRD) ministry's new
formula for tests for entrance into the premier institutes and demanded a
status quo in 2013. The ministry's fresh proposal enables ...
Nation edit: Best possible test
Daily News & Analysis -
13 hours ago
The Union human resources development ministry and the
Indian Institutes of Technology deserve praise for having at last
resolved their disagreement over the new pattern, to be introduced from
next year, for the joint entrance examination.
All board examination results will be declared by June 10 each year: COBSE
Economic
Times - 13 hours ago
NEW DELHI: With an eye to ensure
that the new entrance examination process for all centrally funded
engineering institutes takes off smoothly, the apex body of all school
boards in the country has said that it will ensure that all board
examination ...
Too early to say that new IIT entrance exam is better than JEE
Economic
Times - 15 hours ago
The new compromise formula for the
entrance examination to the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) ends a
long-drawn-out, unseemly spat between the government and the IITs.
IIT-Delhi and Kanpur, which had opposed the single entrance test
favoured by ...
'Jaipur board students with 70 per cent eligible for IIT-JEE'
Times of
India - 16 hours ago
AJMER: Students of Rajasthan Board
of Secondary Education (RBSE) scoring above 70 per cent in Class XII
science stream will get into the top 20 percentile, making them eligible
in the proposed common entrance test (CET) for IIT-JEE.
New selection norms may change colour and code of IIT campuses
Times of
India - 18 hours ago
CHENNAI: IIT campuses may have more
girls from the coming academic year, as the IIT council has decided to
select the candidates only from the top 20 percentile in the boards.
According to the new selection norms, the candidates will not just have
to ...
IIT entrance formula draws mixed reactions
Hindustan Times - 20 hours ago
The proposal to allow only the top 20 percentile
students from each education board to qualify for admission to the
Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), has drawn mixed reactions. On
Wednesday, the IIT council agreed on a 'compromise formula' doing ...
IIT: 20 school boards to declare results by June
Indian Express - 21 hours ago
As many as 20 school boards on Thursday agreed to
ensure that board results are declared by June 10 every year to
facilitate a smooth roll-out of the new entrance examination format for
IITs. This came a day after the IIT Council announced a new ...
Coaching institutes critique new IIT entry rule
Business Standard - 21 hours ago
The new diktat from the Indian Institutes of Technology
(IITs) has confused 17- year -old Deependra Sharma from Kota,
Rajasthan. Sharma who secured 73 per cent in his board exams this year,
had this April enrolled into an IIT-JEE coaching centre at ...
New formula
The
Hindu - 21 hours ago
The IIT Council's formula — to
allow only those placed in the top 20 percentile in the Board exams
among those who crack the advanced examination to be admitted to the
premier institute — seems a reasonable compromise for a fairer
recognition of all ...
Council of Boards of School Education discuss operational issues on common ...
Times of India - 21 hours ago
NEW DELHI: School Boards
across the country today decided to declare their class 12th results
before June 10 and will complete the revaluation work within June 30
from next year. The decision was taken today at the meeting of the
Council of Boards of ...
New IIT formula, required marks on web
Hindustan Times - 22 hours ago
As part of the new IIT entrance formula, the Council of
Boards of School Education (COBSE) on Thursday decided to put up on its
website the corresponding percentage that students from various boards
need to make it to the top 20 percentile bracket.
IIT Council's decision hasty: Super 30 founder
Times of India - Jun 27, 2012
PATNA: The IIT Council's move to give 20 percent
weightage to Class 12 board marks is a hasty decision, Anand Kumar,
founder of 'Super 30', which provides free coaching to Indian Institutes
of Technology (IIT) aspirants, said on Wednesday.
New format of IIT examination would go against the poor: Anand Kumar
Times
of India - Jun 27, 2012
PATNA: Super 30 founder and
mathematician Anand Kumar on Wednesday said that the decision of the IIT
Council to give chance to students having top 20% from various boards
in the class 12 examinations, was a decision in haste. "This is one
decision that ...
School boards approve proposal
Deccan Chronicle - 10
hours ago
Putting their stamp of approval on the new one-nation one-examination
plan of the HRD ministry, school examination boards across the country
on Thursday decided to make available the percentile of top 20
candidates within seven days.
State boards to speed up work for IIT aspirants
Deccan Herald - 16 hours ago
The equivalent percentage of marks for top 20
percentile holders of different school boards will be worked out by the
respective state secondary school boards and made public within 10 days
to help students know if they have qualified for admission to ...
IIT-Delhi alumni reject CET format
Deccan Herald - 16 hours ago
A day after changes proposed in the format of common
entrance exam (CET), which is to be implemented in all Central
University engineering colleges, got a mixed response, the alumni
association of IIT-Delhi along with some faculty members rejected the ...
Uniform science and math question pattern
Calcutta Telegraph - 18 hours ago
New Delhi, June 28: The majority of the country's
school boards today agreed to follow a uniform question format in their
science and mathematics papers from 2014-15 to try and bridge the
differences between their examination systems.
This year's class XII exam takers can reappear in 2013
Chandigarh Tribune - 20 hours ago
Students who took the board exams this year but did not
score well will get a second chance to improve their school performance
in 2013, the year of introduction of the new common engineering
entrance test format for admission to IITs and central ...
IIT-Delhi alumni association up in arms against two-tier format
Daily
Pioneer - 21 hours ago
Even though the All India IIT
Faculty Federation has appreciated the new two-tier format with
inclusion of 20 percentile formula for IIT entrance test, the IIT-Delhi
Alumni Association on Thursday criticised the move. The alumni
association rejected ...
No clarity on new IIT
Deccan Chronicle - 22 hours ago
By L. Venkat Ram Reddy The
new IIT admissions formula announced by the IIT Council on Wednesday has
left many questions unanswered. Students and parents fear a sharp rise
in cut-off marks in the Class XII board exams to gain entry into IITs.
IIT Exam row resolved; advance test from 2013
indiablooms - Jun 28, 2012
New Delhi, June 28 (ANI): The row over the entrance
exam of the engineering institutions has ended as the standing council
of the IIT addressing the concerns of IIT___s has approved a fresh
formula of an ___advanced test___. Speaking to reporters in ...
