Class XII marks to count more at IIT

Students aspiring to be IITians may have to study as hard for their class 12th board xams as they study for their IIT examinations. In hope of filtering only the bright children for the IIT'S as well as giving equal weightage to the class 12th board exams , Human Resource development minister Kapil Sibal wants the minimum %age for students appearing for the IIT to be around 80%-85% but the IIT officials want it to be around 70-80%..

However , officials at the IITs said the institutes were considering two ways of enhancing the weightage.

“One way is that the minimum eligibility criteria of 60% to write the IIT-JEE exams is raised to a higher percentage, say 70-80%. The other way is to work out a marking system where, while assessing a student for admission into the IITs, 70% of weightage is given to his score at IIT-JEE and 30% to his marks in plus two,” said IIT Guwahati director Gautam Barua.