Yes, that’s true, but I guess you’re not shocked, since you already knew that last year, cut off marks for the IIT JEE plunged to single digits.

And now, students can join IIT-Kharagpur inspite of scoring 5% in the Physics paper of the Joint Entrance Exam (JEE) this year. According to information revealed by IIT Roorkee thanks to an RTI application from a computer sciences professor in IIT Kharagpur, the lowest marks in individual subjects this year are 6% in Maths, 5% in Physics and 9% in Chemistry.

This is all due to a stupid system introduced last year, which dictates that the cutoff marks for each subject are 20 percentile, meaning the highest marks obtained by the bottom 20% of the candidates in each subject, as opposed to a more meaningful system where they could have taken the least marks of the top 20%.

As IIT JEE awards negative marks, single digit cutoffs are the norm now, and a candidate can perform badly in one subject and scrape through on the basis of performance in the other two, beating out those who perform consistently well in all three papers but lose out on aggregate.

Unfair? You bet it is, especially in the job market, when these guys command a premium simply due to the ”IIT” tag.

 

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