NIT Admission to be based on JEE Main Marks

Updated on: Monday, September 14, 2015

nit A final decision on the NIT admission issue could come early next month when HRD Minister Smriti Irani chairs a meeting of the NIT council.

Admission to the NIT from next year could be based entirely on JEE-Main scores, with a government-appointed panel likely to recommend scrapping of weightage given to marks obtained in board examinations.

“We would be recommending scrapping of weightages given to board marks,” Director of IIT Bombay and a member of the panel, Devang Khakhar, has said.

A final decision on the NIT admission issue could come early next month when HRD Minister Smriti Irani chairs a meeting of the NIT council, which would take a call on the committee’s recommendations.

As per the existing policy, 40 per cent weightage is given to board marks and 60 per cent to the JEE-Main score for admission to a National Institute of Technolgy (NIT).

Official sources said the committee took into account several factors while deciding on its recommendations that included delays witnessed this year in the common counselling for admissions to the IITs and NIT.

The CBSE had failed to publish the JEE-Main marks ranking list on time for the counselling and blamed it on the delay by the state boards in submitting class XII marks. The ranks are decided after giving weightage to the class XII results.

The delay in Jee Main ranking had a cascading effect that led to the postponement of admission to the IITs, causing anxiety among students and parents.

A committee member said the reform in the JEE Main exams introduced by the erstwhile UPA government by giving weightage to the board results had failed to achieve the desired goals.

NIT Admission to be based on JEE Main Marks

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