Recently, it has been decided by the GOI ministry of india that there would be a combined engineering entrance examinations for IIT/NIT/IIIT where 50% weightage would be given to this engineering entrance exam while the rest of 50% weightage would be given to the pre universitites schools or class X11th exam..as per CBSE..now this is a good move on the part of government considering that many talented people lose their chance to get admission into these coveted school of engineering of nations, considering that engineering is in absymal state in the entire nation itself...but the rest 50% is not normazlied..here are some issues:
1) All states in india have three boards of examinations, CBSE, ICSE and state syllabus..the syllabus, degree of marking, and also, the paper level have lot of gaps..hence, state candidates always get higher marks...compared to CBSE and ICSE....this also explains that why BITS-PILANI always used to be dominated by MAHARASHTRA and AP, as there state syllabus was too easy to achieve 99.99%.
2) what sort of examination would be good to judge engineering candidates? engineering education in india means only to get IT industry jobs..the good candidates would get job offers with GOOGLE,FACEBOOK,MICROSOFT etc and rest of the crown goes into INFOSYS,TCS etc....there is no scope for advanced research in the space of aeronautics,nanotechnology etc..and there is this passion with MBA also..
3) the thing is that candidate neglect their class X11 examinations to prepare for IIT-JEE etc, hence this move is being taken..but these exam are also book based...now if there is emphasis on more of pracitcal knowledge and less on theory, then 50% weightage is justified..at the basic level only, kids must get exposure to tinker with machines etc..only then we would be able to proudce engineers..
let us hope that move is first step ahead to build a strong nation
1) All states in india have three boards of examinations, CBSE, ICSE and state syllabus..the syllabus, degree of marking, and also, the paper level have lot of gaps..hence, state candidates always get higher marks...compared to CBSE and ICSE....this also explains that why BITS-PILANI always used to be dominated by MAHARASHTRA and AP, as there state syllabus was too easy to achieve 99.99%.
2) what sort of examination would be good to judge engineering candidates? engineering education in india means only to get IT industry jobs..the good candidates would get job offers with GOOGLE,FACEBOOK,MICROSOFT etc and rest of the crown goes into INFOSYS,TCS etc....there is no scope for advanced research in the space of aeronautics,nanotechnology etc..and there is this passion with MBA also..
3) the thing is that candidate neglect their class X11 examinations to prepare for IIT-JEE etc, hence this move is being taken..but these exam are also book based...now if there is emphasis on more of pracitcal knowledge and less on theory, then 50% weightage is justified..at the basic level only, kids must get exposure to tinker with machines etc..only then we would be able to proudce engineers..
let us hope that move is first step ahead to build a strong nation
