IIT-Delhi today accepted thecommon entrance test for admission to the undergraduateprogramme for 2013 based on percentile ranking and retain theexisting eligibility condition for students who passed theirboard examination this year.
IIT-Delhi senate, which met here today to discuss the IITcouncil decision of June 27, adopted the format but with somemodification, recommending that a student has to satisfyeither being among the top 20 percentile or have scored aminimum of 60 per cent score at the board for admission.
It further recommended that the syllabus of the main andthe advance test under the new two-tier format should beidentical to each other.
"We have accepted the common entrance test under theformat proposed by the IIT council for 2013 only," said anIIT-Delhi senate member.
For 2014 and onwards, he said the senate resolved forsetting up a committee to go into the entire gamut of theadmission process and arrive at recommendations.
The meeting was called to examine IIT council's decisionof June 27 which adopted the common entrance test under acompromise formula for admission to undergraduate programmebased on percentile ranking of students in their boards.
IIT-Delhi along with IIT-Kanpur had earlier rejected thecommon entrance test under a proposed format, forcing the HRDMinistry to float a compromise formula which was adopted bythe IIT council.
IIT-Bombay and IIT-Kanpur have accepted the new format.