Normalisation for NITs

From 2013, NITs and other centrally funded technical institutions agreed to scrap away with individual exams and accept the IITJEE normalisation.

But this has risen to many students scoring lower ranks inspite of securing high JEE scores.

The normalisation from this year, for all technical institutions, except the IITs, is 60 per cent weightage to the JEE (Main) scores and 40 per cent to class XII marks. The IITs take into account only their JEE (Main) and JEE (Advanced) scores.

For NIT aspirants, the formula is a puzzle;

Crack this: the 40 per cent weightage for board exam marks will be further split in two. Twenty per cent will be the normalised score of the board, taking ranks into consideration, and the other 20 per cent will be taken from the JEE (Main) scores of the particular board’s 

Experts who managed to calculate scores and normalise them based on the formula predicted that the marking system will be beneficial to students who have scored well in their board exams.

This is exactly what happened when the rank list was published.

Some students have seen their leads of 50 odd marks in JEE mains being totally wiped out by a meer trail of 5 odd marks in Boards examinations. Worse, there are instances where a difference of only 5-7 marks in boards has set a student back by as much 2000 rank.

For instance - 

A gets 206 in JEE Mains and 92.2 % in boards, and B gets 184 in Mains but 95.2% in boards (both are from CBSE). But A with 95.2% board marks has a rank of 8803 as compared to the other, who lags him by almost 5000 ranks at 12960. This means that a candidate who gets 22 more marks in mains, but trails another by 15 marks in boards is 5000 ranks inferior to him according to the selection committee.

 Here are some Data from a Facebook pageComplicated Normalization of Marks riles JEE aspirants.
 

Board : CBSE
Marks -235, % - 96, AIR 1962
Marks- 252, %- 93.3, AIR 2500

Board : CBSE
Marks -164, % - 87, AIR 43827
Marks- 160, %- 96, AIR 8500 

Board : Maharashtra
Marks- 166, %- 86, AIR 16,000
Marks- 165, %- 84, AIR 35,119

Board : CBSE
Marks- 330, %-92, AIR-900
LAST YEAR for 330 marks it would have been under 100 or under 50 rank for sure.

Board : CBSE
Marks- 203, %-96.6, AIR 2905
Marks- 240, %-87, AIR 11498
Marks- 179, %- 81, AIR 47,000

Board : AP
Marks- 187, %- 97, AIR 9000
Marks- 160, %-99, AIR 10,000

Board : ISCE
Marks- 204, %-94.4, AIR 11236

Though the primary aim was to encourage a single board if education by the center (CBSE) and discourage the coaching institutions which have become a mobey making venture it makes one ponder ... should the selection commitee achieve its aim at the cost of the students aspiration and dreams of entering top Colleges in the country..... 

IIT JEE and selection process

When I read a news on TOI (11 May) about a boy who had made a mistake of ticking OC instead of OBC I recollected reading this last year.

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About eight hundred OBC quota candidates who qualified IITJEE exam have been pulled out of the admission process this year. This followed after the JEE committee strictly warned against the fake OBC certificates. The JEE committee conducts the joint entrance exam for all IITs.
About 4,805 OBC candidates got through the IIT JEE this year. However, after the withdrawals only 4,000 OBC students remain in the quest for admission to the premier institutes. All of the 2,604 seats reserved at the IITs under this category have been filled in the first round of counseling.
Sources revealed that a majority of those who withdrew from the counseling process did so because they were afraid of getting caught with fake certificates. One out of every six OBC candidates who had cleared the IIT JEE either withdrew from the process or was asked to switch to the general category.
Almost 200 candidates requested to be moved to the general category where they would have to compete for seats on the basis of merit. However, the remaining six hundred students did not register for the counseling process. This year has seen 500 more withdrawals than the 2011 admission process.
The JEE committee had earlier cracked the whip on fake OBC certificates and had issued a warning that if candidates were found to have fake certificates, they would be barred o secure admission in IITs for life. Another reason for the withdrawals was that within the quota, candidates coming from families with an annual income less than Rs.4.5 lakh (excluding salary from agriculture or a government job) come under the non creamy layer category. These candidates are eligible for government sponsorship and professional benefit schemes.
A proposal was earlier made to increase the limit to Rs. 9 lakh for rural and Rs.12 lakh for urban areas. However, this did not come into effect, forcing students who were expecting this to withdraw from the admission process.
Officials from the JEE committee revealed that they had issued a warning after receiving complaints about candidates using fake certificates. The committee verified the complaints by cross checking the OBC commissions’ website, only to find that the complaints were true.
Candidates, who get through the IIT JEE under reserved categories, need to submit their category certificates via post at the time of counseling. June 10, 2012 was the last date to register for the counseling process, while final allotment of seats was made on June 17, 2012. Almost 5.07 lakh students had applied for the exam this year, seeking admission to the 9,647 seats at the IITs, including ISM Dhanbad and IT-BHU.

This year with the JEE main being the criteria for selection to appear for the Advanced Exam, including all the categories 1.5 lakh students have been ranked. The verification of certificate is done only at the time of counselling. 

What if the student had ticked OBC  instead of OC ?

Is he not hampering the chances of someone?

By the time IIT calls for counselling and by the time the fake certificates are scrutinised, the fraud ester has dampened the chances of a deserving student. 

It's not only this, 

Does the system have fool proof method to check the genuinity of the non creamy layer? 

Apart from the OC category who get selected in IITs and NITs no one else can claim to be meritorious. Must this quota system prevail, with so many loop holes? 

Can IIT JEE change its selection process.. and give equal chance to all without bias...?

New JEE pattern and more confusion

With the results of JEE main's new pattern announced today, 3000 students have cleared for appearing in the advanced from Tamil Nadu. The Advanced exam is the criteria for selection into IITs. The JEE main was a screening, to select 1.5 lakh students who would compete for the IIT seats, provided their board scores are within the top 20 percentile.

This year the admission  for IITs, NITs and few more centrally funded colleges depend on this rank list. 

As usual adding to the confusion of admissions, the rank list for the remaining students who did not clear for the JEE advanced will have to wait till July 2nd. 

The 1.5 lakh students who cleared the JEE main are eligible for admissions to IITs and will take their advanced paper on June 2nd. Their rank list will be based on JEE advanced inclusive of all categories provided that they are within the top 20 percentile of the board results. Approximately the OC category needs to score 90% and lesser for the others.

The admissions to NITs and other centrally funded institutes will depend on the JEE main result which would be 60% and a weight age of 40% of the board marks. 

The admissions scenario for colleges in Tamil Nadu has already begun. Some have started the distribution of application forms while the deemed colleges have finished their entrances and are sending counselling letters to students. By July 2nd which is when the CCB is likely to release the rank list most of the colleges would have finished with their counselling and admission through management quota would be over. The single window counselling for Anna University too would commence from June 21st. 

 SASTRA University has decided not to wait for the JEE rank list and begin its admissions with the 70% seats through board results. The remaining 30% seats would be based on the JEE rank list.

There seems to be a confusion regarding admissions into Engineering colleges every year. And CBSE students who look for an option of joining state colleges, especially in Tamil Nadu are the most affected.

I hope better administration and co ordination prevails in the future which will give the students a wider option of colleges to choose from, rather than opting for colleges because of the education system blunders... and mismanagement.

When both CBSE and state board exams end almost at the same time, I fail to understand why the admission process to colleges, especially that of engineering colleges are in a chaos and leaves the student stressed out by the time he gets a seat. I fail to understand why the education system in India is unable to decide on a uniform system which would benefit all boards of students ...?