Kanpur/New Delhi: IIT-Kanpur on Saturday decided to accept the common entrance based on percentile ranking as an "interim" measure only for 2013 and retain the existing eligibility condition for students who passed their board examination in 2012.
For 2014 and onwards, it suggested constitution of a senate committee which will study all aspects of the admission process and arrive at recommendations.
Further, it said the number of students to be filtered for the advance exam in 2013 under the new two-tier format should be decided based on the nature of the test. As per the format adopted by IIT Council, about 1.50 lakh students are to be screened for the advanced test.
"The Joint Admission Board is expected to meet soon to decide whether the test would be of subjective type or objective. After that we can take a view about the number of students to be screened for the advance," said a faculty member of IIT-Kanpur....
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08:39 PM, Jul 28, 2012
Union Human Resources Development Minister Kapil Sibal has made it clear that there is no going back on the new entrance test format for all the engineering institutes including the IITs. In an interview with CNN-IBN Deputy Editor Sagarika Ghose, he defended the new format saying it would help improve the declining school standards and will also help more girl students get into the IITs considering they do well in...
09:30 AM, Jun 21, 2012
Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal on Monday virtually ruled out a rollback on his new one-nation-one-test proposal for engineering colleges. But defending the format, he did say that the government had no intention of infringing on the autonomy of the IITs. The IIT Faculty federation has want the Prime Minister to intervene and are pushing for an appointment with him. The question is whether IITs should be independent of...
03:07 PM, Jun 12, 2012
Sanjeev Sanghi, President, Faculty Forum-IIT Delhi, says they want the Prime Minister to intervene and have sought an appointment with him. ...
03:02 PM, Jun 12, 2012
New Delhi: The Faculty Federation and Alumni Associations of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) have accused Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal of disregarding the senates' concerns about the new format. They want the Prime Minister to intervene and are pushing for an appointment with him this Thursday. The President of the Faculty Federation, AK Mittal, said, "We've been in talks with the minister, but he disregarded what the...
10:25 AM, Jun 12, 2012
New Delhi: Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal's assurance on the new entrance test format seems to have done little to allay the fears of some of the IITs. The faculties of some of the IITs were not impressed with Sibal's defence. President of the Faculty Forum of IIT Delhi Sanjeev Sanghi said that the idea of including the Class 12th marks was not good. "Different states have different boards....
07:45 AM, Jun 12, 2012
New Delhi: The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are split over the joint engineering exam for all centralised institutions. While IIT Madras and Guwahati back the government's proposal on the new format, IIT Kanpur and Kharagpur oppose it. The All India IIT Faculty Federation is likely to meet the Prime Minister on Tuesday. Differences have also emerged within the IITs. The Director of IIT Kharagpur, Damodar Acharya, is the first...
01:30 PM, Jun 11, 2012
New Delhi: Differences have begun to emerge among the IITs over HRD Minister Kapil Sibal's proposal for the entrance exam procedure. The Director of IIT Kharagpur, Damodar Acharya, is the first to go against the wave of opposition, endorsing Sibal's idea. This has upset the institute's senate, which is to come out with its action plan on Monday, against the common entrance test. In a statement, All India IIT Faculty...
07:40 AM, Jun 11, 2012
Topper Anumula Jithendar Reddy and second-ranker Uday K Shah are both from Hyderabad. ...
12:07 AM, May 27, 2010
HRD Minister Kapil Sibal clarified his IIT proposal on Tuesday. ...
10:38 PM, Oct 20, 2009
A new entrance exam system is set to give Class XII marks more weightage. ...
02:48 AM, Oct 20, 2009
