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HRD ministry panel suggested 70% weightage to be given to Standard XII marks and 30% for scoring in the aptitude test for the IIT-Joint Entrance Examination.

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Damodar Acharya, director of IIT Kharagpur who heads the panel gave a report to the HRD minister Kapil Sibal on Wednesday recommending the aptitude test to be conducted more than a year which will be helpful to students.

The aptitude test will be an additional test which will have questions on reasoning, communication skills and numerical ability from the subjects’ mathematics, chemistry and physics. The best score from this attempt will be taken into account.

Based on the Class XII marks and the aptitude test appeared for, a list will be made in the month of June every year and the top 40000 aspirants will have to write an additional test for entrance to IITs. At present strength of more than 40000 candidates appear to write IIT-JEE in single test. The panel has also put a restriction on the number of times it can be taken.

Keeping aside the present system routine, the students at the initial stage will have to let know their choice of IIT or any other institutes and also their choice of engineering stream or science branch where they seek to get admission through JEE examination.

HRD sources said in a statement that the ministry’s initial responsibility would be to bring in par the CBSE and state boards by introducing a “comprehensive weighted performance index” so that there is equality among them and students do not face any issues. The heavy mathematics and science syllabus is already raised for discussion by the HRD ministry and the same is approved by the Council of Board of Secondary Education. The source further said that “The move will ensure that students from small towns and even those who cannot afford expensive coaching can aim to be in IITs”.

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