Question : ENTRANCE EXAMINATION IN IIT AND IIMS

(a) whether the entrance examinations conducted by Indian Institutes of Technology, Indian Institutes of Management, All India Institute of Medical Sciences and other Central Professional colleges is based on the syllabus of the Central Board of School Education;

(b) if so, whether this system restricts students of rural areas studying State syllabus from entering these institutions;

(c) if so, the percentage of students studying under CBSE of the total number of students studying 12th Standard in this country; and

(d) the steps taken by the Government to ensure that the students from rural areas are not deprived from taking admissions in such courses due to various reasons ?

MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT(SHRIM. A. A. FATMI)

(a)&(b) : Generally the syllabus of the Entrance Examination to various professional institutions is based on the syllabus of CBSE, ICSE and different State Boards of the Country.The Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) conducted by IITs for admission to its undergraduate courses is based on a common syllabus based on CBSE and various State Boards. Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) offer Postgraduate programmes

(equivalent to MBA courses) and the standard syllabus for admission to IIMs is of graduate level and not the CBSE. This does not restrict students of rural area studying State syllabus from entering into different professional institutions. Contd/-....

(c): No such data is maintained centrally.

(d): Since the syllabus takes care of all boards, students from rural areas are not deprived from taking admission in professional institutions. Further, the new JEE pattern has focused on the importance of School education and has considerably reduced the dependence on Coaching Institute for admission to IITs. Therefore, the rural students who can not afford separate coaching for this examination stand an equal opportunity to compete with urban student in the new system.