Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) Changes JEE Rules, Flusters Students

The changed rules are making it difficult for JEE pass candidates to get through their dream colleges. 

The expected ranks are disrupted in the procedure of changing certain JEE (main) rules and has in place jeopardized careers of hundreds.

According to the changes, weightage for class XIIth marks will be 40%. However, weightage for JEE marks will remain at a 60%. With this new arrangement, a student with a high score in JEE (main) and an average score in class XIIth could have a rank much lower to another students who has scored better in 10+2 but not in JEE (main).

As for the other students, for whom it was comparatively easier to get admission in their dream colleges, are now forced to face rejection after counting the board marks as well. It was unfair for these students, as it was not mentioned to them prior, that inclusion of board marks will be based on percentile basis.

"Normalizing procedure of JEE (main) rank, is turning out to be more complicated than what the CBSE had claimed as this percentile system is not clear and comprehensible. Nobody is able to understand it. Apart from that, there is no transparency in the ranking system as well. If the CBSE wanted to add the board marks in JEE, they could have made it simple through the average percentage, this percentile system had disturbed everything" stated a JEE passed candidate.

Counseling sessions are scheduled to be held on July 16st 2013 at all the colleges and centres of Punjab Technical University and in National Institutes of Technology on July 21st 2013.

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