My sister sent me a link to this article in the Hindu regarding entrance exams.
JJ has taken the really controversial decision of abolishing improvement exams and common entrance exams. From now, only 12th marks will be considered for entrance to engineering, medicine etc in Tamilnadu.
Parents will argue the merits/demerits of this decision for the next 10 years (and 11 std and younger students all over will be rejoicing). Whatever people may say, I think this is a fabulous decision. The entrance exams have always been way too difficult and not applicable to real life professional skills at all (what is the logic in making an overworked student choose between a)0.0000495 or b)0.00000495 or c) 0.0000945)??
On a personal note, my super padips sis scored more than 98% in 12th exams and ranked 23rd in the state. But, thanks to the entrance tests and the reservation policy, she went through hell before getting a medical college seat (she finally got into a private medical college via the waiting list). If the common entrance tests had been abolished a few years back, my sister would have been in MMC. The lives of many deserving students would have been totally different (would you believe it, many students scored less because of the graphite pencil grading concept - you got screwed if you tried to erase and redo an answer).
Anyway, better late than never. Thanks CM! (and goodbye Excel tutorials!)
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I beg to disagree ! Not that I enjoyed writing the entrance exams, but i feel there is going to be a serious implementation problem. How are they going to rank the students since there is no such thing called cutoff now. There would be thousands of people who would have scored the same total. Isn't there are a committee which decides all this after weighing pros and cons ? At the minimum, they should have announced it now and made it effective from next year.
I agree with you - they should have made it effective from next year so that it did not come as a big shock to all the students this year. Regarding the cutoff marks, how about going in for a system like Bits Pilani? They use only the 12th marks, they use the normalization procedure; If tamilnadu did this, then even the CBSE students in tamilnadu will now have a fair chance at the professional colleges admissions.
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