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'India should have single engineering entrance exam'
Wednesday April 25, 2012 05:38:54 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: With
reforms in the IIT entrance tests being mulled, the founder of the
prestigious Super 30 coaching institute, Anand Kumar, has
suggested a single entrance exam for all engineering colleges in
the country.
Kumar met Union Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Kapil
Sibal Tuesday on the reforms needed for Indian Institute of
Technology-Joint Entrance Examination (IIT-JEE), which is held
annually to select candidates for admission to 15 IITs and two
other institutions.
"A single engineering exam should be held which should be
objective questions based on 11th and 12th curriculum," he said
adding, "the exam should be held three times and the score of best
two should be calculated".
He believes the proposed pattern of including weightage of 12th
board exam results and an entrance exam on a new pattern will be
exploited by coaching institutes.
"Even before the new pattern could be announced, the coaching
institutes have started new-pattern programmes to make good money
from the innocent students," he told IANS after a meeting with the
HRD minister.
Super 30 is an educational programme started in Patna by Kumar.
Established in 2002, it selects 30 meritorious candidates each
year from economically backward sections of society and trains
them for the the entrance examination of (IIT-JEE).
"The proposed introduction of aptitude test and weightage to plus
two board results cannot do away with the dependence on coaching.
Instead, the coaching institutes are trying to cash in on this new
trend to their advantage," Kumar said.
"The students would now be under more pressure trying to deal with
the challenges on three fronts-preparing for plus two, the subject
test for IIT-JEE and the new aptitude test -and the coaching
institutes will make more money," he said.
Kumar suggests a single entrance exam for engineering on the lines
of single exam suggested for medical colleges. He also says
proposed adding of weightage may not work out as planned due to
difference in marking standards.
So far, Kumar's 236 students have made it to the IITs, drawing
worldwide attention to the programme.
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