Revaluation of answer sheets for the Class XII science students on priority

Updated on: Tuesday, November 13, 2012

The Central Board of Secondary Education and other education boards will do the revaluation of answer sheets for the Class XII science students on priority and will declare their results by June 30, 2013. This has been done to facilitate their admission to engineering courses at various National Institutes of Technologies, Indian Institute of Information Technologies, Delhi, Technological University, Delhi and other centrally funded technical institutes, in case there is any change in marks.

According to the Council of Boards of School Education officials, the revaluation will be done on priority also because only the top 20 percentile scorers in their respective Class XII boards or other qualifying examination and those who have appeared in Joint Engineering Examination (advanced) are eligible for admission to the IITs.

According to secretary, COBSE, DV Sharma, "Since for the first time there will be weightage given to the Class XII board results for admission to various NITs and other CFTIs the revaluation of the science students need to be prioritised as their scores may change. So to ensure that the students don't miss out the revaluation results will be completed by June 30, 2013. COBSE will compile the top 20 percentile scorers' data and pass it to the IITs."

While the Class XII results of many state boards gets delayed, a common consensus has been reached among all education boards that the Class XII Board results for 2013 will be declared latest by June 15, 2013, so as to facilitate smooth conduct of the JEE exam as well as counseling. Meanwhile, the CBSE has decided to declare the results of JEE (main) by May 7, 2013, so that top 1.5 lakh aspirants can apply for the JEE (advanced), the entrance test for the IITs.

The CBSE will conduct the JEE (main) 2013, so far known as AIEEE. The offline test will be conducted on April 7, 2013. All candidates aspiring for a seat in the IITs or Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad, will first have to appear for JEE (main) in April 2013.

Only the top 1.5 lakh candidates in the merit list of JEE (main) are eligible to register to appear for the advanced exam.

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