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IITs should give more weightage to class 12 marks: Sibal
New Delhi, Oct 19 : Indian Institutes for Technology (IITs) should give more weightage to the class 12 exam marks for admission to their undergraduate courses, union Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal said Monday.
According to a senior ministry official, Sibal stressed that the IIT admission procedures should give more weightage to class 12 exam marks and also consider raising the cut-off percentage for students to appear in the IIT-Joint Entrance examination.
The minister made the comments while chairing a meeting of the IIT Council here.
--IANS
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