NITs gladly adopt new Entrance Test Pattern from 2013

Unlike IITs, National Institutes of Technology, NITs have no objections in adopting the new Common Entrance Test Pattern from 2013.

Under the new system, for admission to all the centrally funded institutes like the NITs there would be 40 percentage weightage for performance in Class XII (after normalisation of marks), 30 per cent weightage to performance in main and 30 per cent in the advanced test.

“The formula worked out is very simple…40 per cent weightage to board results and 60 per cent to the mains,” chairman of the standing committee of NITs, R A Mashelkar, said after a meeting chaired by HRD Minister Kapil Sibal.

He said the 40 per cent weightage to the board results will be given after the process of normalisation of marks of the state board. A committee comprising NIT directors would be set up to look into the issue of normalization.

Officials said the committee would basically look into validation of the formulae already proposed for normalisation of marks with the respective board results.

The meeting comes in wake of the IITs arriving at a compromising formula last week for admission to undergraduate programmes, taking the top 20 percentile of successful candidates of their Boards for preparing merit list and their performance in the advance test.

The government had on May 28 announced the common entrance test for IITs and other centrally funded institutes.

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