Dear Students,
LAST WEEK WE ASKED:
Is it a good move to give equal weightage to entrance test as well as board exams for admissions in IITs? Why?
BEST RESPONSE
The nexus between IIT-JEE and the board subjects is well versed since the applications of the basics taught in higher secondary are tested in IIT. Giving equal weightage to the boardexams and JEE as well will deserve scorn from some elite aspirants who are full fledged committed to concentrate on IIT JEE. Hence it would be unfair to take such steps ;instead the sole criteria for getting into IITs should be JEE as it exists now.
- Dipika Sahoo, College of Engineering and Technology, Bhubaneswar.
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OTHER RESPONSES
The entrance exams check the aptitude of students and at the same time checks the intelligence level of students. Unlike the board exams we don't have much time to spent on each question and for clearing the exams we need to have clear concept of each topic. In addition there are different board exams- state, cbse, icse etc.The question paper and valuation schemes are not the same for all these. No formulas can be derived so that these board exams will be equal. So considering these facts giving equal weightage to both is not justifiable.
- Ramanathan Sundaram, Amrita School of Business, Coimbatore.
Transparency of Board exams being conducted by different state as well as central government authority is not reliable. In some cases state Government has hidden instruction to raise the average marks of all students for better statistical data on achievement and vote bank. Second thing, pattern of different board is different and hence on same knowledge and skills students gets different marks. There is no perfect way to standardize them on an equivalent scale. So, only one IIT entrance paper of 100% weightage for all is rational.
- Binay Kumar, Chandragupt Institute of Management, Patna
The IIT-JEE entrance exam is an aptitude oriented paper, while the board exams largely tests a student on theoretical portions of the subject . This makes the entrance paper a much more pertinent method to test the aptitude of a student Moreover the evaluation procedure to check the board papers is not standard and depends heavily on the evaluator. The board exam structure needs to be restructured before giving it equal weightage for admissions in IITs.
- Akshay Chadha, NSIT, Delhi.
The common curriculum will bring all students from the country on a single platform -- to study a similar course and compete in examinations for IITs. A common curriculum will provide a level playing field to all students as they will pursue the same course. The common entrance will smoothen the admission process for Engineering courses as students will not have to appear in multiple tests. A Equal weightage to entrance exam as well as board exams would help students compete on an equal footing for various streams of specialised study.
- Manav Badhwar, Amity Business School, Noida
Nearly 700,000 PCM students appear for Board Exams every year and 500000 pass and above all only 10,000 students make it to one of the most prestigious institutions of world "The IITs". Board exams being quantitative and JEE being analytical are poles apart and can't be compared. To make Board exams significant it should be in the same course with JEE but then the move will deteriorate the overall pass percentage of students.
- Nandish Agarwal, Galgotias College of Engineering and Technology, Greater Noida
This is a good move as this will bring fore those students who believe in overall personality development rather then just cramming the subject. However this needs to be implemented properly. India has multitude number of board and there exist huge non-uniformity among them. States need to be on board with a normalization process, given that each has its own board examinations, then only we can think of giving equal weightage to entrance test and to board exams for admissions in IIT.
- Nilaya Mitash Shanker, Shri Ram Swaroop Memorial College Of Engineering And Management (SRMCEM), Lucknow
There are very few people interested in engineering. a aptitude test is clearly required for getting into an IIT, which cannot be achieved merely by scoring good marks in class XII. IIT JEE is an application based exam in synchronization with engineering requirements, giving 75 percent weight age to class XII exam which is more of rote learning will impact the kind of student intake. it is totally nonsense to include social science in IIT entrance because engineering requires logical and analytical brains.
- Amit Kumar, Amity Business School, Noida
It's easy to understand that students will surely do well in their board exams if they are good enough in solving tricky IITJEE papers. But the students from rich families are doing poorly during their board exam and then they join some coaching centers and clear the IIT paper. Even more sometimes these students join coaching centers directly with hostel facilities. They don't have to attend school classes but they can write the board paper.
- Suvadro Chakraborty, Amrita School of Business, Coimbatore
The idea of giving 70% weightage to 12th exam marks in IIT-JEE entrance and increasing eligibility criteria from 60% to 80% is not fair enough. Many intellectual students due to some problems are unable to secure high marks in board exams, the above criteria will cause an end of road situation for them. There have been numerous cases in the past where a student has scored less marks in 12th exams but has cleared IIT-JEE.
- Arpit Sarin, Dr.K.N.Modi Institute of Engineering and Technology, Ghaziabad
Class XII is a base in which a student makes his basics clear, and if his/her basics are clear they can win any battle of the entrance, and now a days The coaching centers are giving training for the IIT entrance. As a result, the students are not studying seriously for class XII exam and giving more attention to entrance. So if they consider class XII score as a criteria for IIT-JEE exam (min 80%) and then at the time of admission they just consider entrance exam score then standards of students outcome can be improved.
- Darshil Mehta, Amrut Mody School of Management, Ahmedabad
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THIS WEEK'S QUESTION:
Do you think coaching classes will lose edge with the IITs' new admission format?