In October, the JEE (Advanced) conducting authorities released a set of data reports on the final results of the JEE (Advanced) and its previous avatars, from 2011 onwards. In this set of analysis of these reports, we will discuss individual elements of the reports and how they are shaping up for you.

The Class 12 performance based
criteria to be eligible for JEE (Advanced) had been released with the JEE notification.
The criteria was simple – students had to score enough in their 12th
Exams to either:

–
Get 75%
aggregate marks (only for General & OBC Category students, SC, ST & PwD
category students had to score 70% aggregate marks only)

–
Be in the
top 20 percentile of students within the respective board. These marks were
calculated based on 5 subjects: Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Language (If
the student had appeared for more than one language, the top scoring language
would be used) and the top scoring subject from the remaining subjects.

In effect, if students had scored enough to meet the lower of the two criteria, they would be eligible for admissions to IITs.

In 2015, students appearing from the following Boards of Higher Education had to score 75% or 70% in aggregate to be eligible, as the marks required to be in the top 20%ile were higher than 75%/70%:

– Aligarh Muslim University

– Andhra Pradesh Board of Intermediate Education

– Central Board of Secondary Education

– Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations

– Haryana Education Board

– Jamia Milia Islamia

– Jammu and Kashmir State Board of School Education

– Karnataka Board of Pre-University Education

– Kerala Board of Public Examinations

– Madhya Pradesh Board of Secondary Education

– Punjab School Education Board

– Rajasthan Board of Secondary Education

– Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technology

– Tamil Nadu Board of Higher Secondary Education

– Telangana Board of Secondary Education

– Uttar Pradesh Board of High School and Intermediate Education

– West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education

For the remaining Boards, students had to be in the top 20 %ile to be eligible, whose scores could be less than 75% yet make it into the list.

The percentile scores were set independently for each category, and the lowest of the 4 scores amongst General, OBC, SC & ST categories was used as the score for the PwD category too.

The scores a student would need to get, by category, for these 16 boards are:

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Table Notes:

1. Marks in the Gujarat Secondary
Education Board are awarded out of different scores, ranging from 600 to 800.
Since nearly 80% of students were awarded scores out of 650, only these students
were considered while computing the scores for the 20 %ile range.

2. Marks in the Maharashtra State
Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education are awarded out of different
scores, ranging from 450 to 600. Since nearly 70% of students were awarded
scores out of 450, only these students were considered while computing the
scores for the 20 %ile range.

3. Nagaland
Board of School Education did not specify the category of the candidates, hence
all students were considered as General category.

4. National Institute of Open Schooling
has 5, 6, or 7 subjects in the exam. Marks of only 5 subjects were used to
arrive at the cutoffs.

5. Odisha Council of Higher Secondary
Education & Tripura Board of Secondary Education did not have a separate
OBC category, so General Category cutoffs have been used.

6. For Chhattisgarh Board of Secondary
Education, the General & SC categories had higher scores in 20 %ile than
the other criteria of 75% & 70% respectively. Hence only students in the
OBC, ST & PWD categories needed to score in the top 20%ile range.

7. For students appearing from the Goa
Board of Secondary and Higher Education or Himachal Pradesh Board of School
Education, they had to score the minimum required 75% (Gen category) or 70%
(SC, ST, PwD categories) except for OBC Category students, who had to score
lower to meet the top 20%ile criteria.

8. Students appearing from Dayalbagh
Educational Institute, Agra had to cross the minimum 75%/70% criteria except
for the ST & PwD category students, who could score lower to reach the top
20%ile critera.

If the students did not need to clear the 75% criteria, the highest
minimum anyone needed to score to meet the 20%ile criteria were the OBC
Category students for Chhattisgarh Board of Secondary
Education, who had to score 74.90% to get in.

Similarly, the lowest minimum, anyone
needed to score were the ST & PwD category students at the Tripura Board of
Secondary Education, who could get in by scoring just 55.20% in their exams.

In the coming years, plans are on to
reduce the importance of the Class 12 exams in the eligibility criteria.
However, the importance of basic knowledge cannot be denied, as the criteria
that the JEE monitors for does not cover all aspects of a student’s education.
In such a case, identifying how well a student has done in the subjects other
than Maths, Physics & Chemistry will help create a more rounded engineer in
the long run.