Many of us have such friends from childhood days who scored even 2nd division i.e. less than 60% marks in class 12th but cleared JEE in first attempt. I remember an odd case, the guy cleared JEE and failed in his class 12th board exams. And I remember many classmates, seniors, juniors who scored amazingly well in their board exams but couldn’t do well in JEE at all.
In short, the type of preparation that is required for scoring great marks in board exams is very different from what JEE requires.
Board exam pattern is more about exploring with-in well-defined syllabus boundaries.
Whereas JEE is all about crossing the boundaries, it’s about thinking unthinkable, it’s about being innovative.
That was the reason JEE papers were set so “typically” or “eccentrically” I would say.
But that eccentricity was actually a wonderful “filtration mechanism” that ensured to take only those guys in who would maintain this never-dying spirit of being innovative.
Now Mr. Sibbal has set class 12th marks as a per-requisite for JEE.
This newly introduced first level filtration would actually not allow the so-called innovative guy even to appear for JEE because he still doesn’t know how to score well in his class 12th exams. He is busy with his own eccentric, innovative ways of exploring the world.
So who reaches IIT? Those who scored well, a few of them might be really deserving but majority would be no-risk taking and set-study pattern guys.
Result would be visible in 4-5 years down the line.
We still would be having students crazy about IIT JEE, many of them still would be crashing IIT gates, we still would be having IIT graduates in the market each year.
But just because the filtration criterion changed, we won’t be getting the so-called “IIT material” reaching IITs and as a result we won’t be able to give to the world the “IIT material” that we were producing till now.
Processing does matter. But Output also depends a lot on the Input that is put under processing.
I am afraid, this processing mechanism slowly would start compromising to align itself with the new type of Inputs it is getting to process.
IITs without their unique “processing mechanism” ? Can you imagine ?
In short, the type of preparation that is required for scoring great marks in board exams is very different from what JEE requires.
Board exam pattern is more about exploring with-in well-defined syllabus boundaries.
Whereas JEE is all about crossing the boundaries, it’s about thinking unthinkable, it’s about being innovative.
That was the reason JEE papers were set so “typically” or “eccentrically” I would say.
But that eccentricity was actually a wonderful “filtration mechanism” that ensured to take only those guys in who would maintain this never-dying spirit of being innovative.
Now Mr. Sibbal has set class 12th marks as a per-requisite for JEE.
This newly introduced first level filtration would actually not allow the so-called innovative guy even to appear for JEE because he still doesn’t know how to score well in his class 12th exams. He is busy with his own eccentric, innovative ways of exploring the world.
So who reaches IIT? Those who scored well, a few of them might be really deserving but majority would be no-risk taking and set-study pattern guys.
Result would be visible in 4-5 years down the line.
We still would be having students crazy about IIT JEE, many of them still would be crashing IIT gates, we still would be having IIT graduates in the market each year.
But just because the filtration criterion changed, we won’t be getting the so-called “IIT material” reaching IITs and as a result we won’t be able to give to the world the “IIT material” that we were producing till now.
Processing does matter. But Output also depends a lot on the Input that is put under processing.
I am afraid, this processing mechanism slowly would start compromising to align itself with the new type of Inputs it is getting to process.
IITs without their unique “processing mechanism” ? Can you imagine ?
