IIT likely to tweak its JEE rules

New Delhi: The IIT council, which is scheduled to meet on September 22, is likely to change the eligibility criteria from the existing top 20 percentile to ‘top 20 percentile or 75 per cent marks in the Class XII board exam,’ whichever is lower.

The meeting, to be chaired by Union human resource development minister Smriti Irani, is likely to overturn the top 20 percentile system introduced during the UPA-2 regime by the then HRD minister Kapil Sibal in 2013.

The top 20 percentile system required successful candidates to be among the top-20 percentile scorers in class XII exams of their respective boards, in an attempt to make students focus on their class XII exam.