New Delhi, October 19: Opening a new front, HRD Minister Kapil Sibal today favoured more weightage be given to Class 12 Board exam for IIT entrance and felt that the required minimum of 60 per cent marks could be raised but left it to a Committee to take a decision.
Sibal’s suggestion came in an attempt to ensure that students taking entrance tests to the premier institutes gave equal importance to the secondary school exam and to check the growth of IIT coaching centres.
A Committee of IIT directors has been appointed to work out a revised system for IIT entrance from 2011, he said
Sibal told reporters the move is aimed at ensuring that students take their class XII seriously and checking the growth of coaching centres, which are thriving on imparting coaching to students for IIT entrance.
–Agencies