Normalization puts premium on Board results, makes JEE (Main) redundant Engineering Entrance
The normalization process worked out for admission to National Institutes of Technology (NITs) and other central government technical educational institutions is turning out to be more complicated and cumbersome than what the CBSE had claimed. The way normalization is being worked out it could result in a student with high score in JEE (Main) and not so low percentage in Class XII (say 90%) could have a rank much lower than a friend who scored less in JEE(Main) but had a higher percentage in the Board results. For admission, it was decidedto use the JEE (Main) performance and the normalized Board performance in the 60:40 ratio. But after the JEE (Main)results were out, the JEE Interface Group has come up with the novel normalization formula, which is as follows: C= 0.6 X Ao + 0.4 X Bfinal, where (Ao) component is aggregate marks obtained byeach student in JEE (Main) and Bfinal component corresponds to the Board percentile. The final rank of the student in the JEE (Main) will be decid