The IITM JEE Committee 2012
The Senate of IIT Madras deliberated the proposal for the new JEE based on a single exam.
The Senate favoured a single-day entrance exam consisting of a Main test with MCQ questions in Maths, Physics and Chemistry, and an Advanced Quantitative test based on the same subjects. The latter test will have problems with numerical answers, possibly in multiple parts. The answers will be entered by the candidates on a machine-readable form.
The Senate recommended two options as described below for ranking the candidates for admission to the IITs. Of the two, Option 1 is thepreferred option.
The faculty association of IITM nominated
- Profs. S.K. Das (ME),
Professor of Mechanical Engineering, BE & ME from Jadavpur University and PhD from Sambalpur University; President of the IITM faculty association
- Vijayan (Physics), Professor in Physics, office bearer of Faculty Association
- Shaligram Tiwari (ME), Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, office bearer of faculty association, B.Tech IIT KGP 1991, M.Tech.
and Ph.D. from IITK
The Director of IITM Dr Bhaskar Ramamurthy added
- Profs. Nandita Dasgupta (EE), Prof of Electrical Engineering, BE from Jadavpur 1982, M.Tech, and PhD. from IITM
- Mahesh Panchagnula(AM), associate prof in Applied Mechanics department, IITM Mech B.Tech. 1992, graduate degrees from Purdue
- and Prof. Idi Chandy (Ocean Engineering) as Chairman of JEE Committee. MSc Physics from Kerala, MS and PhD from IITM Ocean Engineering department, former chairman of JEE and also been on some previous JEE review committees
The Senate of IIT Madras deliberated the proposal for the new JEE based on a single exam.
The Senate favoured a single-day entrance exam consisting of a Main test with MCQ questions in Maths, Physics and Chemistry, and an Advanced Quantitative test based on the same subjects. The latter test will have problems with numerical answers, possibly in multiple parts. The answers will be entered by the candidates on a machine-readable form.
The Senate recommended two options as described below for ranking the candidates for admission to the IITs. Of the two, Option 1 is thepreferred option.
In Option 1, the concept of gating is introduced. All candidates with weighted marks above a pre-announced (at the time the examination brochure is released) Minimum Qualifying Mark (MQM) only will be considered for ranking using the marks obtained in the Advanced Quantitative paper.
In Option 2, a weighted mark obtained from Board percentile rank, Main test marks and Advanced Quantitative test marks will be used for ranking.
The weights recommended by the Senate for the three components, namely, Board percentile rank, Main marks, and Advanced Quantitative marks, are
given in brackets.
Option-1 (preferred):
The weights recommended by the Senate for the three components, namely, Board percentile rank, Main marks, and Advanced Quantitative marks, are
given in brackets.
Option-1 (preferred):
A weighted mark obtained from Board percentile rank (0.4) + Main test marks (0.6) will be used for gating purpose alone. Advanced Quantitative paper marks alone used for ranking the candidates for IIT admission. Only those candidates with the weighted mark higher than the pre-announced MQM will be ranked using the Advanced Quantitative paper marks.
Option-2:
A weighted mark obtained from Board percentile rank (0.2) + Main test marks (0.4) + Advanced Quantitative test marks (0.4), will be used for ranking candidates for IIT admission.
Option-2:
A weighted mark obtained from Board percentile rank (0.2) + Main test marks (0.4) + Advanced Quantitative test marks (0.4), will be used for ranking candidates for IIT admission.
