Meritorious students edged out of engineering rank list

Close on the heels of the High Court  directing the government and All India Council for Technical Education to close down self-financing engineering colleges leaving many aspirants in panic, another problem confronts them.


The government has flouted the norm of considering 50 per cent of entrance examination marks and 50 per cent of board examination marks while charting the ranklist, depriving admission to many meritorious students to the merit seats.


The entrance exam directorate has fixed the total marks at 600 (300 set apart for entrance exam and 300 for board exam). Ideally, the marks should have been fixed at 630, that is, 480 marks for the entrance examination (50 per cent of the maximum score 960) plus 150 marks for board exams( 50 per cent of maximum score 300). The brilliant students may join IITs or similar institutes, they said.The parents said that conversion would mean only one third of the entrance exam marks are being taken into account and not 50 per cent as stipulated in the norms and therefore requested the government to rectify the ranklist.The Commissioner of Entrance Examination said that calculation has been done by experts. “The 960 marks have been converted into 300 based on the mathematical principles which only the mathematical experts know,” said B Mavoji, Commissioner of Entrance Examination.  The formula followed by the authorities is highly beneficial to the state board students as compared to their peers, alleged the parents of CBSE students. “My daughter’s rank for the state engineering entrance is above 6000. One of her friends scored 391 marks for the entrance exam and 78 per cent for the board exam and her rank is above 11,000. CBSE students who appeared for the AIEEE obtained ranks within the 2,500-3,500 range,” said Dr Dhanesh.