IIT's agree on new percentile based admission formula

On wednesday, the IIT council decided to end the joint entrance examination row by fixing new eligibility criteria for 2013. The formula does away with existing eligibility criteria for 60% marks in boards. In the new proposal candidates will first appear for JEE main test which will filter out the top 1.5 lakh students for the JEE(advanced) test. The final IIT ranking would depend only on the All India rank in JEE. The top 20 percentile will vary across boards from year to year. The students who got more than 78% marks in CBSE last year would have made the eligibility.In U.P. boards students with more than 65% are eligible. This new pattern was agreed by IIT council.The All India IIT faculty has welcomed the new system. The main objective to the proposed exam changes was based on weightage on board marks.