On Monday, the Supreme Court rejected a petition challenging the requirement that applicants to the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) receive a score of 75% on their higher secondary exams.
This criterion had already been met, according to a vacationing bench of Justices Sudhanshu Dhulia and K Vishwanathan, and the panel was not eager to become involved.
The highest court ruled that because these are educational problems, it must refer the matter to specialists. “This condition was always there, why should we interfere? This is not a matter we want to get into,” the bench said.
Chandan Kumar and others have asked the Supreme Court to overturn the requirement that applicants to IITs receive 75% of the possible points in their Class 12 board exams.
The applicants’ counsel claimed that because the students had received a provision during the Covid-19 outbreak, they now had a better chance of passing the test required for admission to prominent engineering schools.
“They have scored more than 98 per cent in Joint Entrance Examination, JEE (Main). These are meritorious students. Kindly allow them,” the counsel said. According to the applicant’s attorney, he or she is qualified to participate in JEE Advance because of a JEE Mains score of 92 percentile.
She may be eligible, but even if she is, her board exam score of less than 75% will prevent her from being admitted. Candidates must have obtained at least a 75% grade point average in their Class 12 board exams, according to the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Advanced brochure published this year.
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