Joint Entrance Exam for
IITs, NITs and IIITs from 2013
Government has announced
a Joint Entrance Examination, JEE from 2013 for admission into the central
funded engineering institutions such as Indian Institute of Technology (IITs) ,
National Institutes of Technolgy (NITs) and Indian Institute of Information
Technology (IIITs).
Joint Councils of these institutes also decided that as part of reform in the Examination system, the results of Class 12 examination too would be given due weightage towards entrance.
Announcing this at a press conference in
He said for all other centrally funded institutions, 40 per cent weightage for class 12th examination, 30 per cent weightage for performance in JEE-main and 30 per cent weightage in JEE advanced would be given. The proposed changes will be effective from 2013. These reforms in longer term will improve the quality of secondary education.
The minister also said those students who have appeared in the 12th board examinations in 2012 and wish to improve upon their performance can appear again for the board examinations in 2013. Mr Sibal informed that a meeting of the state education ministers' is proposed for 5th of next month where the participation of states in the common national test process would be deliberated upon.
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