Admission process: Engineering aspirants get boost

Updated on: Saturday, December 31, 2011

The human resource development ministry will consider marks obtained in plus-II board examination with common entrance examination scores for admission to engineering courses from academic year 2013.

Science and technology secretary T. Ramasami told DC on Friday multiple entrance exams neither helped students, nor society. He said the ministry had considered feasibility of normalising all school board scores.

“With the help of Indian Statistical Institute we found that it is possible to map scores of all boards into one correlation by a percentile,” Dr Ramasami said.

He said giving weight to school board examination marks in the admission process would yield positive results — it would make students study school portions seriously in preparation for board exams and bring equity.

This was important, Dr Ramasami said, because several parents could not send wards to coaching classes.

He said an entrance examination with multiple-choice questions would not serve the purpose as it would not test students who lack knowledge, whereas board exams demanded solutions in writing.

With the new system, we will accord two-third weight to aptitude and written tests, Dr Ramasami said.

Admission process: Engineering aspirants get boost

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