Eligibility cutoffs for IIT-JEE unveiled

The Human Resource Development Ministry has finally decided upon the eligibility cutoffs for different boards across the Indian states. This comes following the consensus reached by the HRD ministry and the IITs where it was agreed that there was to be a single entrance exam for admission into the colleges offering engineering and technological sciences as a subject. It was decided that there will be one Joint entrance exam divided into two levels to decide the fates of engineering aspirants across India.

Since many students in India are enrolled in different State boards, it was initially very difficult to set a basic cut off for the finalized eligibility criterion for admission into the IITs. The State board marking scheme is not as generous as its CBSE or ICSE counterparts therefore, many students who were genuinely interested in the field of engineering and research could not qualify for the exam. To eradicate this, the government has now made it compulsory for students to score within the top 20 percentile bracket of their respective boards to be eligible for IIT.

The percentages for different boards corresponding to the top 20 percentile in 2011 have been given below. Please note that the scores can vary significantly next year.

• Andhra Pradesh 87.20
• Assam 54.20
• Bihar 64.60
• CBSE 77.80
• Chhatisgarh 56.80
• Goa 56.25
• Himachal Pradesh 63.20
• Jharkhand 52.40
• Jammu & Kashmir 67
• Karnataka 67.50
• Kerala 76.50
• Meghalaya 49.40
• Manipur 64.60
• Madhya Pradesh 64
• Maharashtra 61.17
• Mizoram 56.20
• Nagaland 49
• Orissa 56.33
• Punjab 70.80
• Rajasthan 63.80
• Tripura 50.80
• Tamil Nadu 78.17
• Uttarakhand 55.20
• Uttar Pradesh 65
• West Bengal 58
• National Open School 60.60

So, if you belong to the percentage bracket given for your board and have cleared both the levels of the IIT –JEE entrance exam, you can assure yourself of having a very good chance of entering the IITs.

Do note that these figures are applicable for students of the General category only. Students belonging to the reserved category have a lower percentile cut off.

Nevertheless, it is very important to do well in school and strengthen your basic concepts thoroughly to do well not only in the entrance exam but also in later life.

Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Bihar & Odisha are against the implementation of NEET

So far only Maharashtra, Kerala, Goa & Karnataka has agreed to adopt NEET, be it be NEET UG or NEET PG these states are ready for the challenge. However Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Bihar & Odisha are completely against the implementation of NEET in their respective states.

Tamil Nadu on NEET

Chief Minister Jayalalitha is ensuring in every way possible to avoid participation in NEET, recently she has written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh protesting against NEET. Tamil Nadu stance is very clear and they are completely against NEET.

If MCI doesn’t exempt Tamil Nadu from NEET, no wonder the state will approach High Court and get a stay order. Such incidents happened even last year,Madras High Court has given stay order.

Andhra Pradesh on NEET

Last year the state government has asked the MCI, to exempt it’s students from NEET for 2 years. However since MCI is conducting a nation wide CET, even AP needs to be a part of it. Chief Minister Kiran Kumar Reddy has assured the students to prepare for EAMCET in 2013, he has written to Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad citing reasons to exempt from NEET.

Bihar & Odisha on NEET

These state governments openly said that their interests are completely against the NEET. Citing reasons that their state students cannot compete with a pool of national students who have an edge over the CBSE curriculum, since NEET syllabus is purely based on CBSE syllabus. These states stated that they prefer having their own medical entrance exams for graduate & postgraduate medical courses.