IITs Agree on New Percentile-Based Admission Formula for JEE 2013

The IIT Council, that included the directors of all the 15 IITs agreed to implement the new admission format of the Joint Entrance Exam (JEE) from 2013 by fixing a new eligibility criteria for 2013 under which successful candidates would have to be in the top 20 percentile of their respective boards to get a final rank in the IIT-JEE on Wednesday, 27th June 2012.


The new format for JEE 2013 does away with the existing eligibility criteria of 60% marks in boards.


Now, candidates will first appear for the JEE (main) screening test, which will filter out the top 1.5 lakh students for the JEE (advanced) test. The final IIT ranking would depend only on the all India rank in JEE (advanced), subject to the successful students meeting the percentile criteria.

The top 20 percentile will vary across boards from year to year. For example, those who got more than 78% in CBSE last year would have made it to its top 20 percentile bracket. For UP boards, students with more than 65% marks would have been eligible.

The new pattern was agreed upon unanimously by the IIT Council. HRD minister Kapil Sibal, chairman of the council, skipped the meeting as he wanted the IITs to sort out the issue among themselves and didn't wanted to be seen as interfering.

The All India IIT Faculty Federation welcomed the new system. “Our main objection to the proposed exam changes was weightage on board marks. With board marks not being included, there should be no problem,” said its secretary Atul Mittal.

IIT-Guwahati director Gautam Barua said the percentile system would encourage students to focus on the boards.

The 15 IITs are in New Delhi, Kanpur, Mumbai, Kharagpur, Chennai, Roorkee, Guwahati, Rajasthan, Gandhi Nagar, Patna, Hyderabad, Ropar, Mandi, Bhubaneshwar and Indore.

In brief, the format for JEE 2013:

• JEE 2013 will be a two-tier exam: JEE (main - to be conducted by the CBSE) & JEE (advanced - to be conducted by the IITs)
• Top 1.5 lakh candidates in JEE (main) to appear for JEE (advanced)
• JEE (advanced) to be held 4-5 weeks after JEE (main)
• Final ranking in IIT to be based only on JEE (advanced), subject to condition that candidates are in the top 20 percentile of their respective boards
• Top 20 percentile would vary from board to board every year
  
  
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