Goa board has decided that Class XII results will be declared any day between May 10 and 15

Updated on: Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Even before exams of the Goa board of secondary and higher secondary education can begin, the board has decided that Class XII results will be declared any day between May 10 and 15.

The board wants to keep pace with developments nationally where the national eligibility cum entrance test (NEET) is being held for the first time for centralized admissions to medicine and dentistry courses. The state wants to declare its results in time for the drawing up of the merit list for admissions.

"Goa has a system where students can apply for reevaluation of Class X and XII marks, which is a system not available in many other states. We will have to declare our results at an earlier date so that students have time to apply for reevaluation and the new scores can reflect in the marks we will be sending to Delhi. If the process is delayed as reevaluated scores are not updated to the list sent to Delhi for allocation of seats centrally then students might miss out," Goa board chairperson Jose Remedios Rebello said.

States have been warned that their students may have to forfeit seats if the Class XII scores are not sent on time, Rebello said. "Admissions to the National Institutes of Technology and Indian Institutes of Technology will be based on one test-- the JEE-main. For NIT admissions, results of state boards will be processed centrally in a method called standardization, these scores will then form 40% of the marks in the NIT selection process," Rebello explained.

Rebello informed that in case of IITs, top 20% students from each board and those that form part of the top 1.20 lakh students from across the country will be chosen to answer the second round of exams for IIT entrance.

Goa board has decided that Class XII results will be declared any day between May 10 and 15

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