IIT Admissions: Class 12 Marks To Be Considered Only For IITs

The Central Seat Allocation Board (CSAB) plans to make changes in the admission process for engineering aspirants. Students may not require to submit their Class 12 marks for admissions into NITs and GFTIs. If these recommendations are accepted by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, the changes will be made from next year or 2017.

The CSAB, which is part of the Joint Seat Allocation Authority (JoSAA), will be making the recommendation in this year’s admission report. The decision has been taken because of the delay of the class 12 marks by CBSE this year. The CSAB will be strongly recommending admissions only on the basis of JEE (Main) scores. It means, the 40% weightage given to Class XII scores for admissions to NITs and other GFTIs (other than IITs) may be removed.

Since 2012, Class XII scores were taken into account to calculate the JEE (Main) ranks when the two-tier exam process (JEE Main and JEE Advanced) was introduced for the first time. After three years of implementation, the apex board will be reviewing the process introduced to control the proliferation of private coaching institutes in the country. The coordinator of the Central Seat Allocation Board (CSAB) M P Singh from NIT-Patna, who was part of the JoSAA 2015, said that “Many of the 47 higher secondary boards in the country are not sending their scores on time to the CBSE. Some of them are not submitting it in the proforma given by the board, leading to discrepancies. Keeping in mind students’ interests, we will be asking the apex body to conduct admissions only on the basis of the JEE (Main) scores. There were some students whose marks were higher than what they actually scored in their Class XII. Such students managed to get a seat on the basis of the ‘hiked’ score in the joint seat allocation process. This came to light only during the document verification step, when it was too late to make changes.”

The JoSAA co-chairman and IIT-B director, Devang Khakhar said,that the entire admission process takes about a month and officials felt that if the schedule were to be spread out to 1.5 months, admissions would be smooth and that will mean advancing the exam by half a month. For, after the two tests (JEE Main and JEE Advanced), they will also allow candidates to view their answer sheets and get their feedback before they can finally declare the results. That entire process is also spread out by a month.

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