Indian Institutes of Technology (Bombay, Delhi, Kanpur, Roorkee, Kharagpur and Madras)
would discontinue the Joint Management Entrance Test
The Indian Institutes of Technology (Bombay, Delhi, Kanpur,
Roorkee, Kharagpur and Madras) would discontinue the Joint Management Entrance Test
and apply Common Admission Test scores for admissions to their post-graduate management
degree programmes. The Indian Institutes of Management conduct the Common Admission
Test.
The IIT-Madras, supposed to conduct
JMET this year, is yet to issue an official advertisement on discontinuing
it but the premier institutes have been informed about the decision. Only students
with CAT score will be eligible to apply, the institute’s website said.
IIT-Delhi has also announced the JMET cancellation on its website and asked students
to check websites of departments /schools of management for other eligibility criteria.
JMET was only the qualifying exam. Instead of the JMET score, the CAT score will
be considered for admissions. Apart from the CAT score, individual IITs will have
their own criteria like conducting GD and PI. Others might still conduct a qualifying
exam for the international students.
However, IIT-B has decided to use CAT for the base qualifying score. IIT-Madras
will be officially releasing advertisements announcing the new policy to students,
said Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) chairman Narayan Rangaraj. The
IITs have jointly decided to do away with JMET.
An IIT-B official said, The decision was taken to reduce the burden of multiple
tests on students. CAT is a well-established qualifying exam for management aspirants.
So, IITs being autonomous have decided to consider CAT scores for our admissions
too.
Sources at IIT-Madras said performance in
CAT entrance exam, group task and personal interviews, previous academic qualification
and work experience, will be considered for the selection process.
Around 5,600 students applied for the JMET last year from IIT-B zone. More than
26,000 students appeared for the exam from all over the country last year and close
to 5,500 students qualified for the admission. Bangalores Indian Institute of Science
also uses the JMET scores for admissions.
CAT 2011 convener Janakiraman Moorthy from IIM-Calcutta said, This year in addition
to over 150 institutes that use CAT scores, IITs also have decided to use our scores.
An official release is still awaited. Xaviers institutes, which conduct the Xaviers Aptitude test (XAT),
will also consider CAT scores from this year onwards.
Courtesy: Times of India
