IIT Preparatory Courses Admission

Updated on: Tuesday, July 28, 2015

IIT Number of students joining for IIT preparatory courses for the current academic year have increased to three times the number of students joined for the last time; from 63 to 185 students.

The more number of preparatory courses are in IIT-Kharagpur with 36 students and IIT-BHU with 32 students. This number is followed by Indian School of Mines and IIT-Roorkee. Indian School of Mines and IIT-Roorkee follows with 26 and 21 candidates respectively.

To qualify for the preparatory courses, candidates need to score only 31 mark out of 504 which accounts to 6.1 percent and 1.54 marks of 88 which is equal to 1.75 percent in each subject. This is very less than the subject-wise qualifying marks for the prep course last year, which was 3.

For students who belong to a quota and score less marks, IITs have a procedure to reduce cut-offs and the candidates undergo special coaching for a year. This system came in place when in the mid 1990s, the IITs took permission to run a year-long preparatory courses.

To help those who scored less in the JEE exam, the colleges reduce cut off in Maths, Physics and Chemistry for a year before they can join the IITs, after clearing an internal test.

Since more than the required students have been qualified for IIT, there were no preparatory courses required for the Scheduled Tribe (ST) students. This situation was repeated after the year 2012, where, for the first time the IIT did not conduct any preparatory courses for ST students.

IIT Preparatory Courses Admission

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