Earlier, the Board of Intermediate Education had shortlisted 1.24 lakh students in the top-20 percentile, based on marks secured in only maths, physics and chemistry papers. With the revised policy, cut-off marks will come down, enabling more students to compete for IIT seats from the state.
The cut-off marks prescribed by the BIE to figure in the top-20 percentile list earlier was 476 marks out of a total 530 marks in Inter second year for general category students, 452 marks for scheduled cas-tes, 447 marks for scheduled tribes and 468 marks for Other Backward Cas-tes. It had shortlisted 1,24,079 students for the top-20 percentile earlier.
With this, several students failed to secure a place in the top-20 percentile list due to higher-cut offs prescribed by the BIE. These cut-off marks were arrived at, based on marks secured only in maths, physics and chemistry papers in the second year.
However, the CBSE has asked the BIE to arrive at the cut-off marks for the top-20 percentile list after taking the performance of all Inter second year students in all papers including languages and other papers such as civics, economics, commerce, history etc, into consideration.
The BIE revised the cut-off marks for the top-20 percentile list. With this, the cut off marks for grneral citizens came down to 452 from 476 earlier, for SCs to 418 from 452, for STs to 410 from 447, for OBCs to 442 from 468 earlier.
The lowering of cut-offs will enable more students to enter into the top-20 percentile list.
Though the BIE is yet to work out how many additional students will figure in the top-20 percentile list with revised cut-offs, officials expect this number to be around 50,000.
However, the actual figure will be known only after the announcement of Inter second year recounting and revaluation results, expected by this month-end.
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