IIT-Bombay accepts percentile formula for JEE 2013

   IIT-Bombay on Wednesday formally approved in principle, with just one recommendation, the 20 percentile formula for the IIT-JEE 2013 that had been announced by the IIT Council last month. The senate of IIT-Bombay met on Wednesday to take an overall view of the new formula that the IIT

Council had approved on June 27.

After wide ranging discussions on different aspects, the senate made only one recommendation that number of students filtered for the advanced exam should be around five times the number of IIT seats. The Council had proposed that 1.5 lakh students be screened for the advanced exam. The IIT-Bombay senate suggested that around 50000 students should be filtered for the JEE advanced exam.

“There was a lot of debate on why there should be 1.5 lakh students for the advanced exam. Now that NITs are not part of the advanced exam, we all suggested that the number should be less, essentially five times the number of seats, which comes to around 50000,” said Prof Narasimhan, All India IIT Faculty Federation President.

After a lot of protest from the faculty on the older proposal in which weightage was given to school boards, the Joint Admission Board of IIT had proposed a compromise formula in which only the top 20 percentile candidates in boards could be eligible for IIT exam next year. This recommendation was later accepted by the IIT Council.

But even after being accepted by the Council, this had to be also approved by the senates of the traditional IITs. While IIT-Madras was the first to meet and accept the new pattern, after IIT-Bombay, IIT-Kanpur is meeting on July 28 to discuss it. IIT-Kanpur senate had earlier protested vociferously against the first proposal that was mooted by the government in which a weightage was given to the school boards. They had also decided to have a separate exam next year. IIT-Delhi later joined the rebel league and decided to have its separate exam next year.

The new  pattern will be two tier—JEE(main) and JEE(advanced). The JEE(main) will be a screening exam and will filter out the top 1.5 lakh candidates for the JEE(advanced). The JEE(advanced) exam, which will be conducted by IITs will be held 4-5 weeks after the JEE(main).

The final ranking in the JEE will depend on the All India Rank in JEE(advanced) subject to the condition that such candidates are in the top 20 percentile of their respective boards.

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IIT-JEE 2013 Cut-off To Vary For Different Boards

Board                                                Percentage Required

Andhra Pradesh                                                 87.2

Assam                                                                54.2

Bihar                                                                   64.6

CBSE                                                                  77.8

Chhattisgarh                                                        56.8

Goa                                                                      56.25

Himachal Pradesh                                                63.

Jharkhand                                                              52.4

Jammu and Kashmir                                             67

Karnataka                                                               67.5

Kerala                                                                      76.5

Meghalaya                                                                49.4

Manipur                                                                     64.6

Madhya Pradesh                                                        64

Maharashtra                                                               61.17

Mizoram                                                                      56.2

Nagaland                                                                       49

Orissa                                                                            56.33

Punjab                                                                              70.8

Rajasthan                                                                          63.8

Tripura                                                                                 50.8
50.8

Tamil Nadu                                                                           78.17

Uttarakhand                                                                           55.2

Uttar Pradesh                                                                         65

West Bengal                                                                            58

National Open School                                                              60.6