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Union Human Resource Development Ministry will hold a meeting with the Indian Institutes of Technology to address their concern over the proposed common national examination for science and engineering for Central institutes that is to be implemented from 2013. The older IITs — Kharagpur, Kanpur, Delhi, Bombay, Guwahati and Madras were the ones that raised the concern. The meeting will be held on April 11 and the IIT Directors, representatives of the faculty federation and other faculty members have been invited. Its outcome will be further deliberated at the IIT Council meet to be held on April 14, though the IITs have not questioned need to hold a common entrance examination. Last month, HRD Minister Kapil Sibal announced merger of the entrance examinations of the Indian Institutes of Technology-Joint Entrance Examination (IIT-JEE) and the All-India Engineering Entrance Examination (AIEEE). A common test would be held and the best-scoring students could choose an institution of their choice. The five Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research had subsequently agreed to adopt the common entrance test that will cover admissions to 15 IITs, 30 National Institutes of Technology and four Indian Institutes of Information Technology. Private institutions and States can also adopt the test. While Haryana, Uttarakhand, Delhi and Chandigarh have decided to join this system, Tamil Nadu, Himachal Pradesh, Odisha, Puducherry and West Bengal sought more time to study the proposal. All universities and institutions offering engineering courses will now use the all-India merit list for admissions.ObjectionsThe IITs recently expressed reservation over the entrance test being only of objective-type questions and the use of a weightage formula to consider the Class XII board exam performance. The IITs made it clear that they would like to conduct the test, instead of entrusting it with the Central Board of Secondary Education.The IITs pointed out that the new system with higher weightage for Class XII board examinations was not practical. Since the assessment system varied among school boards, it would not be possible to assess all students by the same scale and weightage.Also, the use of only objective-type questions in the proposed test has not found favour with the IITs, which have suggested that the test should carry long answer-type questions. The proposed common eligibility test will consist of two parts. The first will be an aptitude test of objective type testing the students' abilities of comprehension, critical thinking and logical reasoning. The second is an advance test based on the students' problem-solving abilities for basic science subjects.Keywords: IIT-JEE and AIEEE entrance tests
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IIT-JEE has already lost its discriminatory powers due to objective kind of problems. Why can't just leave IITs alone when they are doing their jobs nicely. Let there be IEEE for all other colleges.
The HRD needs to answer the question of weightage, what do they hope to achieve by it? Why is it any different from using the board marks for qualifying? Why is precious resources and time going to be wasted in complicated calculations of percentiles and normalizations that is going to leave every student unsatisfied?
They also need to answer the faculty’s question what of the malpractices in various small towns and cities that are impossible to monitor.
What about the stress students will have to undergo because everything will depend on the board marks, the board exam can be given only once and what if that time the student is sick or does not do well?
Besides this there is also the question on the CBSE conducting the proposed exam, IITs have never trusted many places like Kota and Ajmer to conduct the JEE now HRD proposes to conduct it in every small town?
Also of what standard should it be? How can one exam cater to the CET level and JEE level? Will it be a watered down version of
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