One All India Common Engineering Entrance Exam (Engg. CET) likely from 2013
including IITs
After National Entrance cum Eligibility Test for under graduate
and Post Graduate Medical courses ( NEET ) , the Centre has
in principle agreed to an All India common entrance test for admission to all
engineering colleges, including the Indian Institutes of Technology
(IITs).
The council of IITs today proposed a pan-India common entrance aptitude test for
admission to engineering programmes — in IITs and other colleges as well —
possibly from 2013.
This will replace the current system of a joint entrance
examination for IITs and separate tests for state engineering colleges.
Officials said private colleges can use this test too.
Another proposal is to weaken the clout of coaching
institutes by giving weightage to Class XII exam results. However, states need
to be on board with a normalization process given that each has its own board
examinations.
Announcing
this after a five-hour meeting of the Council of IITs, which has also agreed to
the proposal, Union Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal, however,
said that the proposed move to have in place a common entrance test for all
engineering colleges across the country will be subject to approval by the
Central Advisory Board of Education (CABE) and the state governments.
“We have
decided there shall be one exam and will try and put that into operation from
2013,” Sibal said.
The Council
of IITs indicated that students who get admission to the premier engineering
schools might end up paying a substantial amount towards cost of their
education.
The Kakodkar
committee had recommended raising the fees to Rs 2 lakh a year. Sibal said this
would be factored in but IIT fees would remain the same at Rs 50,000 per year
.The cost factor for an IIT for each students now stands at around Rs 8 lakh
against the Rs 2 lakh paid over the entire duration of the BTech programme. He
said the implementation of the Kakodkar panel recommendation, which sought to
raise the tuition fee to Rs 2 lakh a year, was “not possible”, in the interests
of all sections of society.
In the
context of the pan-India common entrance test, Sibal said an all-India merit
list would be prepared based on the combined weightage given to Class XII
examinations and to a common test. The test would examine a students’ logic and
non-subject matters.
He said
weightage would be given to the marks obtained in Class XII
boards after the results “are equalised for which Indian
Statistical Institute will put in place a mathematical formula for
equalisation.”
up paying a substantial amount towards cost of their
education.
The Kakodkar
committee had recommended raising the fees to Rs 2 lakh a year. Sibal said this
would be factored in but IIT fees would remain the same at Rs 50,000 per year
.The cost factor for an IIT for each students now stands at around Rs 8 lakh
against the Rs 2 lakh paid over the entire duration of the BTech programme. He
said the implementation of the Kakodkar panel recommendation, which sought to
raise the tuition fee to Rs 2 lakh a year, was “not possible”, in the interests
of all sections of society.
In the
context of the pan-India common entrance test, Sibal said an all-India merit
list would be prepared based on the combined weightage given to Class XII
examinations and to a common test. The test would examine a students’ logic and
non-subject matters.
He said
weightage would be given to the marks obtained in Class XII
boards after the results “are equalised for which Indian
Statistical Institute will put in place a mathematical formula for
equalisation.”
