NITs to give 40% weightage to class XII marks

I read an article that from 2013 the National Institute of Technology and other centrally funded engineering institutes awarded 40% credit for class XII marks to students seeking admissions. At the fourth meeting of NIT council chaired by Human Resource Development minister Kapil Sibal, today decided to select students based on their combined scores in the proportion of 40% class XII marks and 60% AIEEE points. From now, there will only be one AIEEE whose 60% weightage will be combined with 40% school exam scores to conduct students.

The Director of NIT Jalandhar Prof. Sameer Das said that this exam will be identical to the AIEEE and will have multiple choice questions. The new process will admit students to 15000 seats in NITs and 3000 in other institutes. The Director of NIT Rourkela, Prof. Sunil Sarangi said that will be ranked within the board. Ranks will be converted into student points so that topper always get 40 points. NITs have resolved to retain the process of NIT entrance test as AIEEE and not JEE main. Sarangi also said that "IITs can also used the term JEE which they still use".