IIT-Delhi accepts percentile based common test New Delhi: IIT-Delhi on Friday accepted the common entrance test for admission to the undergraduate programme for 2013 based on percentile ranking and retain the existing eligibility condition for students who passed their board examination in 2012.

IIT-Delhi senate, which met in New Delhi on Friday to discuss the IIT council decision of June 27, adopted the format but with some modification, recommending that a student has to satisfy either being among the top 20 percentile or have scored a minimum of 60 per cent at the board for admission.

It further recommended that the syllabus of the main and the advance test under the new two-tier format should be identical to each other.

"We have accepted the common entrance test under the format proposed by the IIT council for 2013 only," said an IIT-Delhi senate member....more    
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Sibal to meet IIT Council on new JEE format New Delhi: Union Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal on Friday called a special meeting of IIT Council on June 27 to discuss the impasse over the new entrance exam format. In a press release, Sibal said, "The uncertainty faced by the student community, consequent to the resolutions of the Senates of IIT Kanpur and IIT Delhi, requires to be addressed. Consequently, a special meeting of the IIT Council is...  
02:36 PM, Jun 22, 2012

Common test row: IIT Senate members to meet PM New Delhi: Senate members of the seven IITs will on Friday meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in connection with the JEE proposed by the HRD Ministry for admission in IITs and other centrally-funded engineering institutes. The IITs have maintained that the 'one-nation, one-test' proposal compromises with their autonomy and will affect standards maintained at the institutions. Their representatives had met senior PMO officials on Thursday with regards to the matter....  
07:59 AM, Jun 15, 2012