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IIT-JEE New Pattern in Bihar

by Guneshwar Anand

March 12, 2006

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IIT-JEE entrance test pattern is going to changed by this year. JEE has changed its eligibility criteria also. Eligibility criteria for candidates appearing in qualifying examination in 2006 is as follows: (i) The candidates belonging to the general category must secure a minimum of 60% marks in aggregate in their Qualifying Examination. Candidates belonging to SC, ST and PD categories must secure a minimum of 55% in aggregate in the Qualifying Examination. (ii) With effect from 2006, a candidate is allowed only two attempts to write JEE. Furthermore, he/she is allowed to write JEE only in the year in which he/she passes the qualifying examination and/or in the following year.

I personally feel that 60% marks criteria should not be there, it's going to stop the way to IIT for several brilliant student especially from Bihar. Major group of students in Bihar are doing their 10+2 through B.I.E.C. Patna and getting 60% marks is very difficult for these students. It doesn't mean that students are not meritorious. There were several cases when a student was able to crack IIT-JEE in first attempt and he failed in 10+2, that too in Math, unbelievable... And in such cases don't think about rechecking and reevaluation; these words are only in dictionary for B.I.E.C. not in practice. In general also B.I.E.C. syllabus is tougher than other board syllabus, like in C.B.S.E, one has to write exams only for 12th syllabus but here in our case you have to go through both 11th and 12th syllabus. So it's not fair to ask 60% in general for all boards. There should be some standard method for calculating equivalents marks for different boards. One can calculate standard deviation and mean for all the boards marks and then make it rational, for example it may come come like 60% of C.B.S.E = 55% of B.I.E.C. and doing all these work doesn't require much effort, since all the boards are computerized these days. As far 2nd new criteria concern I welcome this. It's good that student will appear for 2 years, if they are getting OK otherwise move on for further studies. It's good that now students will not waste their several year for preparing the JEE exam.

Comments:
Yes but Arjun Singh is busy in AMU, reservation of 5% in IITs, also busy writing his own history, funding more anti-national institution so it is least to expect anything from him. Yes IIT in Kerala, Bengal also. One will see IITs in future in Pakistan and Bangladesh if Arjun Singh hangs in that ministry for a long while. - Satyadhar Joshi - Mar. 15, 2006

It sounds ridiculous when you say that someone cracks the IIT-JEE and fails in 12th. Either there is some problem with the IIT-JEE system or in Bihar system. Knowing Bihar, the latter is most likely. All of you should rise and protest against such a system. It is difficult but not impossible. - Sudip Deb - Mar. 15, 2006

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