IITs reveal IIT-JEE 2012 cut-offs

India’s premier educational institutions, the Indian Institutes of Technology have removed the veil of secrecy and revealed the cut-off marks to be eligible for gaining admission through the just-concluded Joint Entrance Examination, called IIT-JEE. (IIT-JEE 2012 was conducted on 8th Apr 2012).

For the first time in IIT-JEE’s five decade history, the IITs have revealed the minimum qualifying marks in each subject and in aggregate form for various category of students.

While a general category student will have to get 10 % in each subject, the minimum qualifying marks would be 9% for other backward class (OBC) students and 5% for scheduled caste (SC), scheduled tribe (ST) and physically disabled (PD) students.

In addition to this, a student will have to clear the aggregate cut-off to be eligible for being a part of the all India ranking. The aggregate cut-off for general category students is 35 %, for OBC students 31.5 % and SC/ST/PD 17.5 %.

This means that if a general category student scores 14 marks out of 136 in all the three subjects --- Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics – and has an overall aggregate cut-off of 143 out of 408 marks, he or she will be eligible for the rank. 

According to IIT professors, providing the qualifying marks will help students evaluate their performance as soon as they leave the IIT-JEE examination centre and reduce stress on students. It will also help them prepare for the IIT-JEE examination, they added.

Welcoming the move, a parent of an aspiring IIT student suggested that the institutes upload the answer keys of the question papers after the examination. “It will further help students evaluate their performance and reduce their dependence on coaching centres,” a parent, who was not willing to be quoted as he is a government servant, said.

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The decision is a result of the Supreme Court’s observations in a case filed by IIT - Kharagpur professor Rajiv Kumar, who was hailed as an unsung hero for bringing transparency into the IIT-JEE examination system.

Replies to Kumar’s earlier Right To Information applications on IIT-JEE reveals how the country’s top technology institute has changes its examination system. In 2006 to 2011, there were varying cut-off marks for different subjects unlike the uniform pattern adopted in 2012. It varied from 37 in Math to 55 in Chemistry. In 2011, Math cut off was 34, while it was 20 for Chemistry.

Source: Chetan Chauhan, hindustantimes.com

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