24/02/2012
IMPORTANT NEWS ON CET- Deccan Herald dated 24/02/2012 .Page 1&7..
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Govt to go ahead with ISEET
New Delhi, Feb 13, 2012, DHNS:
States to be persuaded to accept single entrance test proposal..
The Human Resource Development Ministry is all set to go ahead with its plan
to conduct a common engineering entrance examination from 2013, but the
first nation-wide test may only cover technical institutions funded by the
Centre.
Meanwhile, the states will also be persuaded to accept the proposal to
conduct a single entrance test for admission to engineering colleges under
their jurisdiction.
"Ministry will go ahead with its plan to conduct a common entrance test in
2013 for admissions to science and engineering institutions funded by the
Central government, if not for all the technical institutions functioning
across the country," sources in the HRD Ministry told Deccan Herald.
This means that the entrance test, to be conducted next year, will only
cover 15 Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), 30 National Institutes of
Technology (NITs), four Indian Institutes of Information Technology (IIITs),
five Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (IISERs) and few
deemed universities which come under the purview of the HRD Ministry.
According to recommendations of the Ramasami committee, the single entrance,
that can would be called as Indian Science-Engineering Eligibility Test
(ISEET) 2013, will be conducted in two parts-main and advance-in April or
May next year.
As per the proposal, examinations will be of three hour duration each and
will be held on one single day, sources said.
For admission, a candidate must score above 40 per cent in Class-XII board
examination. However, weightage accorded to the performance in Class-XII can
go up to 100 per cent. "The combined weightage for the Main and the Advance
paper under ISEET shall not, in any case, exceed 60 per cent," sources said.
It is for the individual educational institutions or the state government to
decide on the weightage to be accorded to the scores in Class-XII, main and
advance examination, they added.
The proposal
As per the proposal, it would be up to each institution or groups of
institutions or state agencies to conduct counselling and admission.
At present, there are around 15 lakh engineering colleges across the country
and over 150 entrance tests are conducted for admission to these institutes.
"Ministry wants to bring change in the current system in order to give
relief to students of multiple tests by introducing a common entrance test
for all these technical institutions. But, this requires the states' consent
to the proposal for its implementation all over the country," sources said.
A meeting of the state education ministers on the issue is "tentatively"
scheduled on February 22.See More
