Meritnation|Jun 14th, 2012 06:09pm
The decision by HRD minister Mr Kapil Sibal to have a common entrance examination for all engineering colleges from 2013 has evoked a mixed bag of reactions. However, despite the lot of criticism that it has received, we strongly welcome this move.
Under the new scheme, all aspirants will now have to appear for two exams – JEE main and JEE advanced – to be held on the same day. For admission to IITs, a student will be first shortlisted on the basis of the cumulative score in Class XII exams and the main test – each getting a 50% weightage. It has been proposed that the final merit list for admission to IITs will be basis only the student’s performance in the JEE advanced test.
For centrally funded institutions which include NITs and IIITs, it will be 40% for Class XII board, 30% for the main test and another 30% for the advanced test:
Why the need for a common engineering entrance exam?
In the earlier scheme of things a student’s performance in class XII exams was not given any weightage in the engineering entrance exams. Thus, a student although wanting to also do well in Board exams, was often unable to do so given the inability to cope with the differing demands of the two exams.
The interesting thing to note here is that, while students still had to first ‘master’ their class XII concepts in order to hope to crack IIT JEE and other competitive exams, performance in class XII exams was never openly acknowledged as being important. A student who gave everything to preparing for these entrances but was still unable to clear it, most likely had the entire career messed up because of sub-optimal performance in the class XII exams.
How do these changes impact the lives of engineering aspirants?
With the new pattern, however everything changes. With class XII marks finding a place in the selection process, an engineering aspirant’s performance in the class XII school exams has suddenly become legitimate. Such an integrated approach to education prepares the right foundation for lifelong learning in the student and makes the student look at education in a holistic manner and not merely as an ‘entrance exam’ that needs to be ‘cracked’.
From our interaction with thousands of engineering aspirants in the country over several years, we could not have been more confident that this is indeed a great bold move by the government.
Some of the advantages of the common engineering entrance are highlighted below-
The move to have a common test has been lauded by the entire teaching community, including principals. Students and parents too have welcomed this move as it greatly reduces their mental and financial burden, contrary to a small voice of dissent that believes that the burden on a student has actually increased. We believe that such an integrated approach of concept-building through school exams coupled with problem solving skills necessary in entrance exams, will only benefit students in the long run.
Yet another concern has been that the exam will now become easier and the IITs will no longer remain the institutions of excellence. Our take is that the exam has always been tough and only the best got through. By simply enabling more students to take the exam with less pressure should not make it any less so. May the truly deserving students win the coveted seat!
Pavan Chauhan
Managing Director- Meritnation.com
Note: This is the first in the series of IIT JEE blogs. Do keep a watch on this space for more news on IIT JEE from our IIT expert-Pravin Tyagi!
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1. sagar zunjar pachpute | January 21st, 2014 at 9:49 pm
thanks keep guiding me
2. pranita | January 19th, 2014 at 9:27 pm
keep on giving such useful info………..
thumbs up!!!!
3. Kusum.M Nair | January 17th, 2014 at 8:46 pm
Really This is going to be a satisfactory point for many students of xii,which will enable them to have a better hope and approach for the IIT exams.
4. Prof.K.V.Reddy | January 14th, 2014 at 11:58 am
I congradulate you for rendering comendable service to the student community.I on my part pass on the information to the less previlaged students in the rural area.
5. vishnu | September 16th, 2012 at 12:25 am
that is awssome
6. amit pant | September 13th, 2012 at 11:13 am
Thank you for this important post. It is really v. helpful in my preparation for IIT JEE .
7. ADAM VEER | September 7th, 2012 at 3:12 pm
m studying at super30 . i wish 2 score highest rank as far as possible so u guide me plz .
new pattern 4 iit jee reduce my burden precisely .
8. Bhavesh Pravin More | August 2nd, 2012 at 9:15 pm
That was a Good System! Systems change time by time it is now all about marks and nothing related to psycology so we students have now go to Crack the Exams and prove ourself’s.
9. balwinder | July 7th, 2012 at 6:34 pm
it is a gd step from gvt.plz tell me time to time the changes and other detail about iit and other compitativ exam.now i am in 12.
10. Sai kiran | June 30th, 2012 at 8:40 pm
ohh this is good or bad ..?
if feel 50-50..
11. rishav | June 30th, 2012 at 2:13 pm
I cant underSTAND That how will coaching institutes get over. . . .INFACT IT Would flourish more. . . . .THIS Pattern is nothing but a discrimination bw students of state boards and icse cbse students. . . . .HOW WILL cbse studENT GET IN 20 %. . . .IT WILL INCREASE PEER PRESSURE!!
12. jessica | June 25th, 2012 at 7:40 pm
i too thnk dat this system is nice bcoz its a good direction for decreasing stess of d students …. but we wil have to give our best in order to score good marks in both IIT as wel as in ISEET .
13. Funmeet | June 21st, 2012 at 6:45 am
wtf !! nothing is changedd….new pattern will be followed from 2014 onwards……….so enjoy very slowly !
14. vaibhav | June 16th, 2012 at 8:34 pm
I think that the new system will overburden us as of now we have to prepare both for the class 12 examination and ISEET as we know that Though it will be conducted by CBSE but the paper will be set by IIT Professors only.
And the normalization procedure can’t give any relief as for students belonging to poor section of society will be at the back foot and now in coaching classes the course of 12 will also be taught and the poor students of state boards where primary education is still is still lagging will not be able to even dreamt of getting good marks in 12th board also now the test would be of 6 hours which will be a headache for us
15. rashmi | June 16th, 2012 at 11:48 am
it’s a good move by the government
16. prakhar javre | June 15th, 2012 at 6:19 pm
Totally disagree with your opinion.
17. Sumit Suryakant Kamat | June 15th, 2012 at 6:04 pm
I am quite delighted that the central government is going forward with this system .I have just completed my 12th standard .The place from where I studied didn’t have any such coaching classes , so our only choice was to give stress on our board exams and study on our own .
From the common entrance examination I hope that the future batches will be able to perform much better .
18. sanjay kumar | June 15th, 2012 at 5:41 pm
new system= very bad
19. mahamaya shukla | June 15th, 2012 at 10:42 am
ya i too think that this is the best news for iit and very beneficial for me because my aim is to crack iit.plz always inform me i am in 10 class.
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