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Rules, criteria

Aspirants can withdraw admissions if unhappy with seat allotted

The Times of India, Jun 17, 2016

Zone-wise toppers according to different IITs; Graphic courtesy: The Times of India, June 13, 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.

See also

Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs)