School Boards to announce percentile of top 20 students in a week

All the school Boards of India on Thursday decided to make available the percentile of top 20 candidates within seven days to help students get a clear picture of the marks required to be eligible for IIT entrance test. The boards also have decided to declare their results before June 10 and will complete the revaluation work within June 30 of the year to ensure the new format functions smoothly.All the representatives of the school Boards assembled  for the Council of Boards of School Education (COBSE) meet, an apex body of all the boards, councils of secondary, senior education in the country here on Thursday.

Another  statement said that the equivalent percentage of marks for top 20 percentile students would be available within 10 days to students so that they are able to know the percentage of marks that will make them eligible for IIT Entrance.

In all, 20 of 29 boards’ chairpersons and representatives were present during which they “wholeheartedly supported the idea of giving weightage to the Boards Examinations’ Results and were of the view that this will definitely strengthen the school education,” the statement added.

After reaching a compromise formula, the IIT council has announced that admission to IITs from 2013 would be based only on rank achieved in the advance test and selected candidates would be in the top 20 percentile of successful ones of their boards.