No advantage for students from higher scoring boards IIT-JEE 2013: 

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has decided to normalize Class 12 board results.

This means that students from boards giving higher scores may no longer have an advantage.

Faculty from IIT Bombay had earlier stated that giving 40 percent weightage to Class 12 boards would result in weaker students gaining admissions to the IITs. This was because of the varying difficulty of boards across the country.

Students who sat for JEE (Main) will now look at two factors when normalizing results:

- Performance in JEE (Main)
- Performance of other students on the same school board

Over 10.5 lakh students sat for JEE (Main), out of which 1.5 lakh will gain admission to the 16 IITs and Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad.

Five subjects will be used for the normalization process:

- Physics
- Mathematics
- Biology OR Chemistry OR Biotechnology OR Computer Science
- One language
-Any subject other than the above
There have been no details from CBSE on whether answer keys will be published or when Paper 2 results will be declared.

Source: Indian Colleges
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IIT-JEE (advanced) exam 2013: Result expected on June 23:

The results of IIT-JEE (advanced) exam 2013 will be declared on June 23. Candidates can check results here. Now the IIT aspirants will need to score 30 per cent more to get admission to the institute. The cut-off marks for admissions to Indian Institutes of Technology have been increased due to the top-20 percentile norm introduced by the Centre. The 50% of Boards marks will be normalized by equating percentile amongst different boards/examining bodies and anchoring them to All India JEE Main percentiles, and 50% be normalized by equating each Board’s/examining Body’s percentile with JEE(Main) percentile marks of respective Boards /examining bodies. There are five subjects which will be used for normalization. The subjects to be considered for normalization include- Physics, Mathematics, any one of the subjects from Chemistry, Biology, Biotechnology and Computer Science, One language and any subject other than the above four subjects. Source by: Indian Colleges URL : www.examhook.com/LatestNews.aspx

JEE: Cut offs for top 20 percentile students announced:

New Delhi: IIT aspirants who have scored over 78.2 per cent marks in their class XII CBSE exam this year and have made it to the final round of the JEE examination stand a chance of being selected to the prestigious institutes.

According to CBSE, the cut off score for the top 20 percentile for the general stream has been put at 391 (78.2 per cent).

Rank holders in the JEE advance test under the new two-tier format for admission to the under-graduate programme in the IITs must be among the top 20 performers for admission.

For OBC, the cut off will be 389, SC 350 and for ST 338, a CBSE statement said after the results of class XII was declared on Monday.

The class X results are likely to be declared on May 30.

JEE advance test will be conducted on coming Sunday and students who have made it to this final round of examination but do not find them within the cut-off need not lose heart and should consider the exam as a "good exposure", said a CBSE official.

The new format adopted by the IIT council comprises a two-tier system -- a main and an advance test.

Students clearing the advance test after being screened in the Mains would be considered for admission provided they are among the top 20 percentile in their boards. The mains were held on April 7.

The logistics for both the exam will be conducted by CBSE. The advance exam will be solely conducted by the IIT.

IIT will prepare a merit list of those who sat for the advance and then select the successful candidates if they are among the top 20 percentile.

Source:ZEE NEWS.

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