New Delhi: Securing 60 per cent marks in Class XII will not be sufficient for the IIT aspirants from 2011.
The Government on Monday appointed a committee of IIT directors to suggest the revised entrance system under which marks obtained in Class XII will be given importance along with the entrance marks.
The move is aimed at ensuring that students take their Class XII seriously and checking the growth of coaching centres, which are thriving across the country on imparting coaching to students for IIT entrance, HRD Minister Kapil Sibal said.
"The present criteria is that students need to secure 60 per cent at Class XII for appearing in IIT-JEE. This is not acceptable. The minimum marks required for IIT-JEE could be raised up to 80 to 85 per cent," Sibal told reporters after a meeting of the IIT Council in the Capital.
At the same time he added that the decision about the required percentage will be taken by the committee.
"The coaching centres are giving training for the IIT entrance. As a result, the students are not studying seriously for Class XII exam and giving more attention to entrance. We want to get rid of the coaching centres by giving more weightage to the board exam," Sibal said.
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