JEE Main 2023: PIL on the 75% eligibility requirement will be heard on February 21

Satish Kumar

Satish Kumar

The top 20 percentile criteria should either be eliminated for this year’s entrance exam, or reduced to 50%, according to the Public Interest Litigation, which claims that JEE Main applicants have demanded 75% and 50% changes to the criteria.

JEE Main 2023

JEE Main 2023: On February 21, the Bombay High Court will hear a PIL that challenges the requirements of 75% and the top 20% percentile for the Joint Entrance Exam (JEE) Main 2023.

The top 20 percentile criteria should either be eliminated for this year’s entrance exam, or reduced to 50%, according to the Public Interest Litigation, which claims that JEE Main applicants have demanded 75% and 50% changes to the criteria.

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Let’s look at why the JEE Main 2023 eligibility criteria matter as the hearing date approaches:

JEE Main Eligibility criteria issue

The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) reinstated the requirement of 75% marks in the Class 12 board exams for admission to NITs, IIITs, and CFTIs in the 2023 JEE brochure.

Candidates must have received at least 75% in their class 12 board exams, with the combined marks for SC, ST, and PwD candidates being at least 65%, or they must be in the top 20% of their respective board’s successful candidates, according to an early JEE Advanced brochure published by IIT Guwahati. The top 20% criterion, however, was not previously offered for the Main exam.

Aspirants claim that those who did not achieve a 75% passing grade in their Class 12 exams, particularly those for whom this is their final opportunity to sit for the entrance exams, will be left out in the cold.

A PIL regarding the postponement of the January session of JEE Main 2023 and the 75% eligibility requirement was heard in January by a Bombay High Court bench ruled over by acting Chief Justice SV Gangpurwala and Justice Sandeep V Marne.

The JEE Main exam had not been postponed by the bench. “Future exams may also be affected if orders are passed today to direct the postponement of the January exams. There don’t seem to be any unusual circumstances preventing respondents from conducting the examination in January. According to Bar and Bench, “thousands of students must have been studying for the exam.”

It had also stated that a new hearing would be held in February to address the eligibility criterion issue.

Revised criteria

A number of candidates, experts, and even some Members of Parliament (MPs), including Congress leader Karti P Chidambaram, spoke out against what they claimed to be an ostensibly unfair eligibility criterion on Twitter.

The Union Education Ministry then made the decision to modify the JEE Main 2023 eligibility requirements. The updated guidelines stated that in addition to a candidate’s All India Rank (AIR) in JEE Main, a student must have either received a grade of at least 75% on their Class 12 board exam or have placed in the top 20% of candidates for that board exam result.

JEE Main: Why are candidates still upset?

Aspirants for JEE Main 2023 have been protesting the revised guideline on various social media platforms because they are dissatisfied with it. They assert that the requirements for being in the “top 20 percentile” are not consistent and differ from board to board.

“A number of state boards typically do not declare the top 20 percentile, and it can differ not only between states but also between CBSE and CISCE. For instance, it becomes unfair for Maharashtra board students, CBSE students, and others if Bihar has a top 20 percentile of 65 and Maharashtra Board has 76%. Anubha Srivastava Sahai, an activist who is assisting students in bringing this issue before the Bombay High Court, said that the lack of clarity surrounding this criterion is extremely unfair to students who are currently pursuing the JEE this year.

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