What is CUT-OFF Mark in IIT. Did u?

The cut-off marks for the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Joint Entrance Examination (JEE), held on April 13 this year, was declared on Friday. 31,12,578 candidates appeared for the examination.

Out of these, 8,652 candidates have been declared qualified to seek admission to the IITs. Individual subject cut-offs have been determined on the basis that top 80 percent candidates qualify in each subject. The cut-off for three subjects in the general category are mathematics 5, physics 0 and chemistry 3. The cut-offs last year were 1,4 and 3 respectively.The subject cut-offs are the first filtering criteria and not the minimum marks of candidates admitted to the IITs, Institute of Technology-Benaras Hindu University (IT-BHU) and the Indian School of Mines University (ISMU), Dhanbad.

The aggregate marks of All-India Rank (AIR) of one Shitikanth from Patna is 433 and the last candidate admitted in the general category has scored 180 marks. The JEE was held by IIT Roorkee this year.
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Btw in most probability the JEE this yr will be conducted by IIT Delhi!

I have not heard if from any source.. but if u go to the JEE page of any of the IIT's, the footer writes Copyright � JEE, IIT Delhi. All rights reserved

There is also an overall marks.. So if u make the cut off in each subject, then u are marked according to the total marks.

Btw IIT has not disclosed too much about the marking pattern except the little information that has been extracted by some students by the use of Right to Information. And this itself is bound to change in the time to come. You cant rely on old information and things can change dramaticlly in the next yr. You should not prepare based on this information!

Side Note: I wud oblige (and request u) to post the questions on the thread and not on my chatbox. I dont like it too much if ppl start discussing things there. A general chat or something is fine.

The formula for calculating the cutoffs has been changed from the needlessly low 20 percentile (the best of bottom 20% candidates) to the more respectable "average of the marks scored" by all candidates in each subject.

In an image makeover to the cutoff procedure, IITs have also changed the nomenclature: the subject cutoff will hereafter be called the "minimum qualifying mark for ranking (MQMR)".

The new procedure announced last week however smacks of adhocism as, far from being a systemic change based on a coherent policy, it seems to be more a frantic attempt to break out of the single-digit syndrome of the last two years.

The application of the MQMR formula to the data of the two years in which JEE had single-digit cutoffs does indicate that the cutoffs in JEE 2009 could just about enter double figures.

If the cutoffs in JEE 2008 were 5 in mathematics, 0 in physics and 3 in chemistry, the MQMR in those three subjects would have been 19, 12 and 18, respectively. Similarly, if the cutoffs in JEE 2007 were 1 in mathematics, 4 in physics and 3 in chemistry, the MQMR in those three subjects would have been 17, 19 and 21, respectively.

Gautam Barua, director of IIT Guwahati, which is conducting JEE 2009, concedes that the cutoffs based on the new procedure "may not turn out to be dramatically higher." Asked why IITs have settled for a marginal improvement in the cutoff procedure, Barua told TOI: "Seeing that the cutoff formula of the last two years produced very low cutoffs, we have attempted to make the screening more meaningful in 2009. We didn't want the cutoffs to be too high or too low. So, after much discussion, we chose the middle path."

The saving grace of the new procedure is that, since it is expected to yield slightly higher cutoffs, JEE 2009 may avert extreme examples like candidates getting admission into IITs despite scoring single-digit marks in one or the other subject.

In JEE 2008, for instance, one general category candidate made it to IIT Kharagpur despite scoring 8 marks in physics.
The new cutoff procedure is the latest in a series of changes IITs have been forced to make ever since they were unable to explain under RTI the basis on which they had fixed much higher cutoffs in their 2006 examination: 37 in mathematics, 48 in physics and 55 in chemistry.

The RTI applicant is a professor of computer sciences in IIT Kharagpur, Rajeev Kumar, who was able to demonstrate before the Central Information Commission that the statistical formulas cited by them for JEE 2006 were wrong and contradictory.

It was on the rebound that in 2007, IITs resorted to the 20 percentile formula, which plunged the cutoffs to single-digit marks. Such low cutoffs in turn allowed less meritorious students to slip into IITs in 2007 and 2008, as reported first in TOI, on the strength of their aggregates even when they scored miserably in one of the three subjects.