ISI has concluded that the result data of Plus Two examinations of various boards cannot be compared.

Updated on: Monday, August 13, 2012

A study by Indian Statistical Institute has concluded that the result data of Plus Two examinations of various boards cannot be compared.

The report has raised questions on the normalisation process adopted in the state for admissions to engineering courses.

As per the normalisation process, scores in the qualifying examination for various boards would be normalised to a global standard deviation.

The procedure followed in the state is that the marks in the engineering entrance test were being combined with the marks of the qualifying examinations at a ratio of 50:50 to prepare the rank list.

Sources said this report was the base for the IIT board’s decision that the admission to the IITs from 2013 would be based only on rank achieved in the advance test subject of the Common Entrance Test conducted by the Human Resources Ministry (HRD) – subject to the condition that selected candidates are in the top 20 percentile of successful candidates of their boards.

This formula replaces the format of giving weightage-try to the Class XII board results proposed by the HRD ministry, which was opposed by the IITs. The report, while analyzing the data of CBSE, ICSE, the Tamil Nadu

board and the West Bengal board, found that Class XII scores from these boards are not comparable. Since the subject scores do not appear to be comparable, “the question of combining them for comparability of aggregate scores across the boards does not arise,” the report said.

All India council of technical Education director M Abdul Rahman said that there was a perception that normalisation was advantageous for students appearing for examinationsunder certain boards.

“However, I am not sure whether this perception is true or not, as I am not well versed in the process of
normalisation,” he said.

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