The Preamble
JEE, Class XII Board Scores and Normalization
After the
Councils of the Indian Institutes of Technology and the National Institutes of
Technology decided to alter the system of engineering admissions, there was a long-drawn
process involving various experts and decision makers at various academic and
administrative levels trying to develop a new admission procedure based on an
appropriate combination of entrance examination scores and normalized class XII
scores of the students. At one point during this process, the Indian
Statistical Institute (ISI) was asked to provide statistical inputs and help in
developing a suitable normalization formula for class XII board scores that can
be combined with the entrance examination scores for the purpose of selection.
Here, the
sequence of events leading to the currently adopted admission procedures, along
with the role of ISI in these matters, is described with full reference to
background documents. While experts from ISI provided their official inputs at
various stages of the deliberations, the ultimate decisions were taken without
involving ISI, and those decisions were not in conformity with ISI
recommendations.
At the end
of this description, the formula that is currently being used for admission to
NITs is explained with some illustration.