HC tests IIT focus on 12th marks
Court seeks govt, CBSE's justification for 40% weightage to board exams grades for engineering college admissions.
The Delhi High Court on Tuesday issued a notice to the Centre and CBSE
over a plea challenging the government’s new assessment process for
admission to undergraduate engineering programmes in top institutes
including IIT and NIT.
The Centre and the CBSE have been given time till July 12 to respond to the plea filed by a student Arnav Ohri who appeared in the IIT-JEE Mains 2013.
Ohri, through his counsel Aritra Das, has challenged the new normalisation procedure that gives 40 per cent weightage to the XII Board marks while deciding the All India Rank for admissions to top engineering colleges.
The petition argues that while adopting the procedure, the government has ignored the vital fact that students appear for the JEE from several boards like the CBSE, ICSE, and state boards like Bihar board, UP board and others which have different curriculums, system of examinations and marking schemes.
“As far as competitive examinations are concerned, a candidate’s performance in the XIIth board examination has limited value,” states the petition. “Therefore, giving 40 per cent weightage to the XII board exams is arbitrary and unconstitutional.”
“The normalisation formula, which has been adopted, is a resultant of excessive delegation by the government to a non statutory body like the CBSE,” the petition argues.
Ohri, who scored 186 in his JEE exam, scored 89.4 per cent in his CBSE class XII board exams. Realising that even though he had a good JEE score, his board marks might put him at a loss, he approached the HC seeking that the Court stays the online registration of students till the final decision on the petition.
He had filed the petition before a vacation bench of the HC on May 28 which had issued notices to the Centre, the CBSE, which conducts the entrance test, JEE Apex Board and JEE Interface Group. It had directed all parties to reply within two months but the date for counselling was fixed on July 5.
Hence, Ohri appealed before a division bench of the High Court seeking an immediate order on his application.
Ohri had also sought that the court order the authorities to reserve an interim seat at NIT Kurukshetra, where he was seeking admissions, till the final hearing on the petition. While the Court refused to entertain his plea seeking the reservation of a seat, it provided him interim relief by ordering that the counselling for JEE be postponed till July 15.
What’s the story?
Arnav Ohri, a student of a private school in Kurukshetra, approached the HC on May 28, 2013 challenging the Normalisation Procedure. He scored 89.4% in his CBSE class XII board exams and 186 in JEE. His parents are professors at NIT Kurukshetra. Ohri had sought that the HC stays the JEE counselling till the final hearing on the plea and also reserve an interim seat for him at NIT Kurukshetra, where he was seeking admissions. The HC however only ordered that the counselling be postponed.
The Centre and the CBSE have been given time till July 12 to respond to the plea filed by a student Arnav Ohri who appeared in the IIT-JEE Mains 2013.
Ohri, through his counsel Aritra Das, has challenged the new normalisation procedure that gives 40 per cent weightage to the XII Board marks while deciding the All India Rank for admissions to top engineering colleges.
The petition argues that while adopting the procedure, the government has ignored the vital fact that students appear for the JEE from several boards like the CBSE, ICSE, and state boards like Bihar board, UP board and others which have different curriculums, system of examinations and marking schemes.
“As far as competitive examinations are concerned, a candidate’s performance in the XIIth board examination has limited value,” states the petition. “Therefore, giving 40 per cent weightage to the XII board exams is arbitrary and unconstitutional.”
“The normalisation formula, which has been adopted, is a resultant of excessive delegation by the government to a non statutory body like the CBSE,” the petition argues.
Ohri, who scored 186 in his JEE exam, scored 89.4 per cent in his CBSE class XII board exams. Realising that even though he had a good JEE score, his board marks might put him at a loss, he approached the HC seeking that the Court stays the online registration of students till the final decision on the petition.
He had filed the petition before a vacation bench of the HC on May 28 which had issued notices to the Centre, the CBSE, which conducts the entrance test, JEE Apex Board and JEE Interface Group. It had directed all parties to reply within two months but the date for counselling was fixed on July 5.
Hence, Ohri appealed before a division bench of the High Court seeking an immediate order on his application.
Ohri had also sought that the court order the authorities to reserve an interim seat at NIT Kurukshetra, where he was seeking admissions, till the final hearing on the petition. While the Court refused to entertain his plea seeking the reservation of a seat, it provided him interim relief by ordering that the counselling for JEE be postponed till July 15.
What’s the story?
Arnav Ohri, a student of a private school in Kurukshetra, approached the HC on May 28, 2013 challenging the Normalisation Procedure. He scored 89.4% in his CBSE class XII board exams and 186 in JEE. His parents are professors at NIT Kurukshetra. Ohri had sought that the HC stays the JEE counselling till the final hearing on the plea and also reserve an interim seat for him at NIT Kurukshetra, where he was seeking admissions. The HC however only ordered that the counselling be postponed.
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