Experts against school marks in JEE
Anubhuti Vishnoi: New Delhi, Dec 17 2012, 00:36 IST
to board scores is do-able and in fact it is happening around the world and even at home. Kerala for instance does it with joint entrance exams taking board marks into account,” Joshi said.
However, ACER and Pearson experts feel school board scores from across states can hardly be ‘normalised’ effectively to enable the same to be used for a common entrance. “AIEEE Total scores appear to be quite well suited for tertiary selection, and to form any combination with scores distributed like these would detract seriously from their effectiveness,” ACER experts have said.
The recently launched Centre for Assessment and Research of the CBSE and a task force with experts from the Indian Statistical Institute, IIT-Kanpur and the CBSE looking into the issue has come up with a divergent view, fully backing the normalisation format.
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