Sibal for 80 Percent in Class XII as Minimum eligibility for IIT JEE
Sibal for 80 Percent in Class XII as Minimum eligibility for IIT JEE
The Way Our Honorable HRD Minister Kapil Sibal is going about the transformation in the Indian Education System, the word “Sibalization“ should be heard more often.
As per the recent news in TOI , HRD minister Kapil Sibal on Monday wanted more weightage to be given to Class 12 Board exam for IIT entrance and proposed raising the required minimum of 60% marks to at least 80%.
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Sibal said the 60% minimum was unacceptable as the government move came in an attempt to ensure that students taking entrance tests to the premier institutes gave equal importance to the secondary school exam and to check the growth of IIT coaching centres.
A Committee of IIT directors has been appointed to work out a revised system for IIT entrance from 2011.
Sibal told reporters the move is aimed at ensuring that students take their class XII seriously and checking the growth of coaching centres, which are thriving on imparting coaching to students for IIT entrance.
“The present criteria is that students need to secure 60 per cent at class XII for appearing in IIT-JEE. This is not acceptable. The minimum marks required for IIT-JEE could be raised up to 80 to 85 per cent,” Sibal said after a meeting of the IIT Council, the apex decision making body for the elite institutes, here.
At the same time. he added that the decision about the required percentage will be taken by the committee.
“The coaching centres are giving training for the IIT entrance. As a result, the students are not studying seriously for class XII exam and giving more attention to entrance. We want to get rid of the coaching centres by giving more weightage to the board exam,” Sibal said.
Source : TOI
It is good to learn that the Minister of HRD is keen on bringing back relevance of Senior Secondary examinations for admissions to institutions of national importance. One believes that this should be brought across board for all entrance examinations.
However, to ensure equity and inclusiveness the weight age should be more for Senior Secondary examinations – through a percentile scheme say 70 percent weight age to Class 12 and balance to entrance test. Furthermore there should not be any cut off percentage such as 80 percent or 60 percent as suggested by the Minister. If he wishes to do away with relevance of entrance examination tuition centers then he has to bring in a balanced criteria where students take school study seriously and do not depend on the entrance examination criteria.
One hopes that the committee appointed to look into this issue comes out with some rational recommendations.
JJ Nandi