IIT-JEE cut-off may fall a bit
By admin • Apr 17th, 2008 • Category: News
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More than 3.2 lakh students across the country, a nearly 30% increase over last year’s 2.5 lakh, appeared for the Indian Institute of Technology-Joint Entrance Examination (IIT-JEE) on Sunday for a shot at one of the most coveted 5,500-plus seats across the IITs, the IT-BHU (Institute of Technology-Banaras Hindu University) and ISMU (Indian School of Mines University), Dhanbad.
This, incidentally, was the first big competitive exam after the 27% OBC quota decision in premier higher education institutes was upheld by the Supreme Court. The examination was conducted against the backdrop of the decision, even as institutes are yet to collectively decide how many seats will be increased and made available to each category of students.
Add to that, the promised new IITs - of the eight pledged by the prime minister last year. At least three of those, located in Andhra Pradesh, Orissa and Rajasthan are expected to be operational this year. Each of the new IITs is likely to admit 200 students this year. The total number of seats available, thus, may even cross the 7,000 mark, if the first phase of quota is implemented.
IIT Kharagpur JEE chairman AK Ghosh told ET: “The directors are still meeting with MHRD and details of the OBC issue are still to be decided on. Our institute wanted to maintain the same number of students as last year, but if the 27% OBC reservation is implemented, obviously the number of seats will go up. However, we are not clear about this yet.”
The cut-offs, this year, are expected to be slightly lower than last year. According to TIME vice-president Ajay Antony, “the cut-off is likely to be 34% overall for an all-India rank. That means the student needs to score around 167 out of a total of 489. Individual cut-offs don’t have much of a bearing for serious students.
We’ve arrived at the figure by comparing the level of difficulty between the 2006, 2007 and 2008 papers and also taking into account the total number of students appearing for the exam. Sharad Awasthi, president and CEO, Career Launcher agreed. “I think scoring around 160 is likely to get a student a rank.”
- Economic Times
