IIT Delhi Reject the CET(Common Entrance Test) Decision

From 2013, the Joint Entrance Exam (JEE) was all set to replace all other engineering entrance tests across the country.Final decision by Kapil Sibal on this topic was out on 29th May 2012 and gave green signal to conduct Common Entrance Exam for all IIT’s , NIT’s ,IIIT’s . But on Thursday  IIT Dehli administration decided  to conduct its own entrance exam in 2013 ,ruin the decision of HRD ministry by refusing to be part of the the common entrance test (CET) for all IITs, NITs and IIITs.

IIT-Delhi today decided to conduct its own entrance exam from next year, following in the footsteps of IIT-Kanpur.

IIT Delhi Members Said::

“We will not accept the proposed single entrance test and will conduct our own exam,”and also adding the proposed test “impinges” on the autonomy of IIT-Delhi.

“The proposed test is academically unsound and procedurally untenable,”

In meeting senate members said that the other IITs have been asked to reject the new system and join hands with IIT-Delhi and IIT-Kanpur.Indications are that the senate is in favour of retaining the existing format of the IIT-JEE test even as it has decided to set up a committee to examine the issue.The decision of the senate comes a day after Sibal reiterated that there was no going back from holding the single entrance test from next year.

IIT-Kanpur had early this month rejected the proposed test terming it “academically and methodically unsound”.

Kapil Sibal’s Decision on CET

According to  new decision , all student who appeared in Entrance exam will have to give two exams – JEE main and JEE advanced (Both exam to be held on same day).Eligibility of candidates for admission to IITs(India Institute of Technology) , NIITs(centrally funded institutions) , IIITs (Indian Institutes of Information and Technology) and state funded institutions.Admission in IITs  is  depends 50-50%  on score of both class 12th(xii) and main test. The merit list for the elite institutes will be decided on the candidate’s performance in the advanced test.

Also weightage for admission is vary institute by institute. For centrally funded institutions which include NIITs and IIITs, it will be 40% for Class XII board, 30% for the main test and another 30% for the advanced test: a format that IITs have also agreed to follow from 2015.Individual Institute state government will have to decided weightage for admission to institutions. Class XII marks will be standardized on percentile basis by a formula worked out by the Indian Statistical Institute.
Main test paper shall be contain multiple choice type question ,and  JEE advanced test shall be determined by the Joint Admission Board (JAB) of the IITs.