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Sources said all the institutes are also likely to admit candidates based on the same entrance exam as IITs (JEE Advanced). “Currently , it is unlikely that JEE-Main will be scrapped because several technology colleges and institutes run by the state take in students based on their rank in JEE-Main. By the end of 2017, a decision will be taken,“ the JAB member added. The JAB is likely to take a call soon on holding the single entrance test. | Sources said all the institutes are also likely to admit candidates based on the same entrance exam as IITs (JEE Advanced). “Currently , it is unlikely that JEE-Main will be scrapped because several technology colleges and institutes run by the state take in students based on their rank in JEE-Main. By the end of 2017, a decision will be taken,“ the JAB member added. The JAB is likely to take a call soon on holding the single entrance test. | ||
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JEE
Rules, criteria
Aspirants can withdraw admissions if unhappy with seat allotted
The Times of India, Jun 17, 2016
Students can withdraw admission after every round
Aspirants for seats in the IITs, NITs and other centrally funded technological institutions (CFTIs) will be able to withdraw their admissions after every round if they are unhappy with the seat allotted and if they are not hopeful of getting a better seat in subsequent rounds. The Joint Seat Allocation Authority (JOSAA) for admissions to 92 institutes has decided to provide the withdrawal option after several students were inconvenienced last year when the feature was not available. The seat allotment process is likely to begin from June 24, subject to the availability of class XII scores of the various state boards. The JOSAA portal will go live on Friday with new rules and regulations for the admission process this year.
The authority also decided to include another or more rounds, if time permits, allowing the authority to fill all seats in premier institutes. In 2015, the joint seat allocation process began on July 1 after many of the 45 education boards failed to submit students' class XII scores, which is given 40% weightage while calculating JEE (Main) ranks. The authority makes use of JEE (Main) and JEE (Advanced) ranks of students for the process. “Since we started late last year, there was no time to conduct four rounds. In 2016, we plan to start by June 24, which will enable us to include more rounds. We may have four or more rounds this year, which will benefit students with lower ranks to take up seats that are vacant,“ the professor said.
“If students are allotted a seat which is lower on their preference list and would like to opt for a staterun engineering institute closer home, they will be allowed to release the seat. This seat will be made available to students in subsequent rounds.The withdrawal option will benefit students and institutes,“ said the professor.
Minimum qualification criterion, 2016
The Times of India, Aug 01 2016
Somdatta Basu 6040 admn formula now scrapped for NITs, IIITs
The Joint Entrance Examination Apex Board (JAB) has given nod to 31National Institutes of Technology (NIT), Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology (IIEST)-Shibpur, IIITs and government technology institutes to scrap the existing 6040 weightage formula for admissions.
Candidates vying for seats will have to secure atleast 75% marks in the higher secondary (HS) examination or rank among the top 20 percentile in their respective board exams. This will be the minimum qualification criterion, besides the rank secured in entrance test.
IITs and ISM-Dhanbad follow the same criteria for admissions: only after meeting the cutoffs does a student get a seat through counselling based on their IIT-JEE (Advanced) rank. “At the moment, the minimum criteria is to pass in all subjects in HS and secure 45% in the aggregate. Sixty per cent weightage is on the JEE-Main rank and 40% on board exam results.This will be no longer valid from the 2017 examination,“ a senior JAB member said.
Director of IIT-Kharagpur, Partha Pratim Chakra borty, confirmed that a circular has been issued whereby the new qualifying rules have been notified.
“The ministry of human resource development has also given the nod for the JAB proposal. If the student fails to meet the desired cutoff in the HS exam, then his her rank in the entrance test will be nullified,“ the director of an NIT said.
Sources said all the institutes are also likely to admit candidates based on the same entrance exam as IITs (JEE Advanced). “Currently , it is unlikely that JEE-Main will be scrapped because several technology colleges and institutes run by the state take in students based on their rank in JEE-Main. By the end of 2017, a decision will be taken,“ the JAB member added. The JAB is likely to take a call soon on holding the single entrance test.
Year-wise results, trends
2016: School boards that fared the best
The Times of India, May 13 2016
In JEE's top 100, 50 from CBSE schools
Hemali Chhapia
There is an elite JEE club -the 100 highest scorers. They are the ones who don't need to prioritise their options, they can choose their colleges and streams.
In 2016, the blue-chip club consists of 50 candidates from CBSE schools, followed by 21from the Telangana state board -two boards that saw 52% of their students make the cut in JEE (Main).
Maharashtra ranked third, with seven candidates from its state board among the top 100 JEE (Main) scorers. In all, 10,627 students from the Maharashtra state board have cleared the first hurdle and registered for JEE (Advanced), the gateway to IITs. CBSE schools saw the largest share of students clearing JEE (Main), followed by 11,040 from the Telangana board.
“Over time, we have seen that maximum students have come from CBSE. But below that, the order has altered,“ said a JEE (Advanced) official. In 2013, for instance, over 80% came from just three high school boards: CBSE and the state boards of Andhra Pradesh and Punjab.Next year, a large count of candidates was from five boards -CBSE, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Gujarat.
The biggest fall has been that of Rajasthan, which has slid to number four this year and has only one candidate among the top 100 scorers. The state's desert town of Kota, which attracts thousands of students every year, has over time nosedived in securing top slots in JEE (Main).
For long, when it came to getting into the IITs, the right coaching centre was what mattered. But the new entrance exam system has changed the rules of the game.Now, if you want to get into an IIT, it appears that passing Class XII from the right board gives you an edge.
2017: UP, Telugu states, Kota, Super 30 excel
Delhi boy 3rd in exam for IIT, topper from Haryana, June 12, 2017: The Times of India
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Sarvesh Mehtani of Panchkula's Bhavan Vidyalaya topped the Joint Entrance Exam (Advanced), countrywide, this year. Pune boy Akshat Chugh (Delhi Public School) was all-India second (with a score of 335), and Delhi's Ananye Agarwal (Hope Hall Foundation School) was third. The merit list was announced.
Ramya Narayanasamy , from Madhapur, Hyderabad, with an all-India rank of 35, was the topper among the girls, and Shafil Maheen of Talakkad, Kerala, bagged top place in the south zone.
With 10,240 of a total of 50,455 candidates across the country , IIT-Madras zone accounted for the most successful candidates in the JEE (Advanced) test results. IIT-Bombay , with 9,893 qualifiers, was second among seven zones.
It was followed by Delhi, with 9,207 qualifiers, Kan pur (6,809), Kharagpur (6,138), Roorkee (5,050) and Guwahati (3,118), said a statement from IIT-Madras, the organising institute for JEE (Advanced) this year.
The IIT-Roorkee and IITDelhi zones each has three candidates in the top 10 ranks, IIT-Bombay has two, and Madras and Kanpur one each. The south zone also had the largest number of qualifiers in the top 100, with a total of 29.
Around 2.2 lakh students were eligible to write the JEE (Advanced) this year, with the quota increasing by 20,000 over 2016. The number of students eligible to take the test climbed from 1.5 lakh in 2015 to 2 lakh in 2016 due to an increase in IIT seats.
As many as 1.72 lakh students registered for the `Advanced' round of the entrance examination, of which 1.59 lakh -up from 1.47 lakh in 2016 -took the test for the 10,000-plus seats across the 23 IITs.
The gender gap on IIT campuses remains as wide as ever. While 33,358 girls registered for the exam, there were three times more boys (1.38 lakh). A total of 43,318 boys accounted for 86% of the successful candidates this year, with 7,137 girls qualifying.
Seven candidates qualified under the foreign category. Despite the IITs earmarking 1,000 slots for foreign can didates, only 598 foreign students registered for the Advanced round, of which 109 appeared and seven qualified.This year, foreign students had six centres to choose from, including Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Singapore, Ethiopia and the UAE.
2018
2018: 65,000 cleared Mains, but did not take final test
Not every engineering aspirant is in thrall of IITs. The JEE (Advanced) has seen a 30% dropout rate. About 65,000-odd candidates who made the cut in the qualifying JEE (Main) did not sign up to cross the second barrier for joining IITs. Interestingly, the largest fall has been from the open category candidates.
Among them, a little more than 42% candidates who cleared the JEE (Main) did not register for the Advanced. The numbers were the best for OBC-NCL (non-creamy layer) students.
Chairman of JEE, IIT-Kanpur, professor Shalabh said, number of registrations was likely to rise a bit as details from various banks would come in a day or two.
Gender-wise, 1.2 lakh boys from the 1.8 lakh who cleared the Main registered for the Advanced. Of the 50,000 girls, 32,923 would take the Advanced test on May 20. Last year too, 1.7 lakh students of the 2.2 lakh who qualified in the JEE (Main) had registered for the second level.
“The difficulty level of Main and Advanced is very different. There may be some candidates who are likely to, based on their scores in the Main, get into an NIT in a stream of their choice or join a top engineering college,” said a faculty.
Coaching institutes said undergraduate engineering in foreign universities was also trending. Some students, who might have taken the Main as a backup plan, would have got into a top university abroad and hence did not sign up for taking the Advanced exam.
This year, the qualifying scores in the Main were scaled down so that more candidates would be eligible for the IIT entrance test. The overall cut-off for all categories slipped considerably, with the common rank list cut-off dropping from 81 to 74. A total of 2.3 lakh candidates qualified for the Advanced exam, including 1.8 lakh boys and 50,000 girls.
Interestingly, of this year’s total candidates who qualified to take the Advanced exam, 1.1 lakh were from the general category. A little more than 65,313 were OBC-NCL, 34,425 were SC and 17,256 were ST candidates.
2018/ Only 36 foreign students registered in 2018
Despite holding a good ground in global rankings, IITs have failed to catch the fancy of international aspirants this year. Only 36 candidates have registered for JEE (Advanced)—the entry level test for admission to IITs—this year as against 69 last year. Eventually, only 31 appeared for the test last year and seven qualified.
Not just the rankings, IITs, on their own, have been taking mindful efforts in the last few years to increase students’ diversity on campus. Only last year, the premier institutes decided to reach out to international students in Sri Lanka, Nepal, Singapore, Bangladesh, Ethiopia and the UAE, and have been holding exams at these centres. “We have been releasing admission details from time to time on our website and are also taking all measures to promote the institutes in these countries. We approach the Indian embassies in the selected countries with all the admission data required to ensure a smooth conduct of the test,” said an official from the JEE (advanced) committee.
However, the efforts are not translating into numbers for the country’s elite group of institutes. “Our country has to offer good liveable conditions, safety and security, better social conditions to international students to make it a lucrative destination. Why do our students prefer studying in the western part of Europe and not Eastern Europe? Why do we prefer going to Northern America instead of south. It is the same case here. People look at options to study abroad also for a prospective career destination. Holding exams in select countries may not yield desirable results,” said a professor.
