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More seats for
foreigners in IITs from 2017
Up to 10% additional seats in each IIT course can now go to
foreign students. Casting the enrolment net for foreign students wider, the
IITs will now hold their entrance exam at six international centres instead of
just one so far.
“Foreign candidates will have to qualify the JEE Advanced
examination for an IIT seat. The Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE)
for entry to MTech courses will be held in these six countries as well,“ said
an official. Foreign candidates, however, will not have to take the JEE Main
examination.“This has been done to attract foreign nationals,“ the official
added.
Induction of foreign students will not mean less seats for
Indian students. “The10% intake is in addition to the existing seats available
in each of the 23 IITs,“ the official clarified. Also, 20,000 more candidates
will be eligible to write the exam after clearing JEE (Main), thus taking the
total number to 2,20,000.
The examination will be held in six countries outside
India--Ethiopia, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, UAE, Nepal and Singapore. The number of
foreign students can't exceed 10% of the total seats in each course offered by
the IITs and ISM-Dhanbad. There will also be no quota in this category .
In another significant change, the cut-off for the aggregate
marks in Class XII for SC and ST candidates has been reduced from 70% to 65% in
JEE Advanced 2017. “Various interactive features are conceived to make the
process of registration, fee payment, result announcement, choice filling, etc,
less strenuous. Features like short video tutorial and SMS services will be
used extensively to help the candidates,“ said a senior official. From next
year, candidates who register late for the IIT-JEE Advanced exam will also be
charged a late fee of Rs 500.
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