Thiruvananthapuram: Many students migrate to state syllabus from CBSE and ICSE as they feel that this will be better for them to secure admission to good engineering colleges. This was because many students from other syllabuses have a belief that normalisation process used for bringing marks scored by candidates in different Plus Two board exams and abroad to the same plane was advantageous to state syllabus students.
The admission to engineering colleges in the state through tests conducted by the Commissioner for Entrance Examinations (CEE) was based on equal weightage of 50:50 marks obtained in the entrance examination and the grade/marks obtained for Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry put together in the Plus Two examinations.
However, former Joint Commissioner for Entrance Examinations Rajoo Krishnan pointed out that the analysis of the entrance rank list for the past many years has made clear that the majority of the top ranks had gone to students from syllabuses other than state syllabus. He said that somehow a notion has entered the mind of many people that the normationalisation process is advantageous to state syllabus students. "Statistics proves that this notion has no relation to reality," he told DC.
However, whatever the statistics proved the trend was so evident that even students with more than 90 percent marks have been migrating to state syllabus by getting them admitted to a higher secondary school near a prestigious entrance coaching centre.
Previous year’s statistics proved that almost 30 percent of the students migrate from CBSE to state syllabus higher secondary every year. CBSE/ICSE parents’ forum coordinator Dr N. K Sanilkumar said that the time was ripe for reopening a debate on whether the present weigthage given to Plus Two students should continue or not. Especially in the wake of the decision by the HRD ministry to do away with the weightage for Plus Two marks for Joint Entrance Examinations (JEE) for IIT from 2017, he said.
