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It is a testing challenge to the fairness of what is considered one of the most competitive examinations in the world, IIT-JEE. The chief organiser of the 2006 examination, Prof V K Tewari of IIT Kharagpur, is due to appear on Thursday before the Central Information Commission to account for his failure to explain the basis on which he had arrived at subject-wise cut-off marks.
Tewari has been summoned to show cause why, as “the custodian of the information,” he should not be penalized as neither of the versions he gave of the statistical formula tallied with the cut-off marks that had been applied to filter out candidates in the 2006 IIT-JEE.
In response to an RTI application, the information officer of IIT Kharagpur first said that the cut-off formula was “mean minus standard deviation” for all the candidates who had appeared in the examination.
But when the figures that emerged from this formula turned out to be at variance with the cut-off marks that had actually been announced, IIT changed its response and said that the performance of only those who obtained at least one mark in each of the subjects had been taken into account. As it happened, even the second version of the formula did not yield the official cut-off marks, which were 37 in mathematics, 48 in physics and 55 in chemistry.
Worse, because of the vast and unexplained variation in the cut off marks, the less meritorious qualified even within the general category candidates at the expense of those who performed better.
IIT Kharagpur was hard pressed to justify the anomalies that came to light: For instance, a candidate who scored an aggregate of 250 marks failed to qualify simply because he got 52 in chemistry (three less than the cut-off marks in that subject) while another qualified with an aggregate of just 156 marks simply because he happened to get 55 in chemistry.
The summons for Thursday’s hearing followed the Calcutta HC’s rejection of Tewari’s plea to stop CIC from proceeding against him. Information commissioner O P Kejariwal has served a penalty notice on him despite his contention that he has already complied with CIC direction “in letter and spirit” to disclose the cut-off procedure for the 2006 examination.
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