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| Saturday, Mar 10, 2007
Students now await court verdict on Common Entrance Test
Anxious to know whether Act will over-rule various regulations
- Petitioners say Presidential assent cannot give "over-riding power to State law,"
- Their other concern is in finding a way out to breaking a `tie' for finalising rank
Chennai: Now that the President has given assent to the Tamil
Nadu Regulation of Admission in Professional Courses Bill that
seeks to abolish the common entrance test, students will eagerly
await the outcome of the litigation in the Madras High Court.
They will look forward to the court's ruling on whether the
Act would over-rule the regulations of the Indian Medical Council
Act, the Architects Act, the Dentists Act and the All India
Council for Technical Education Act, all of which prescribe
the conduct of an entrance examination in case students come
from more than one Board.
The aspirants in Tamil Nadu include those from the State Board
and a much smaller number from the CBSE and the ICSE. The Medical
Council and the All-Indian Council for Technical Education have
been cited as respondents in the petitions challenging the Act.
The petitioners, including two students A.S. Prabhu and Madan
Mohan, have said the Presidential assent under Article 254 (2)
cannot give "an over-riding power to the State law,"
as the Acts under Entry 25 List III have been declared in the
Constitution subject to legislative competence of the Centre.
The other concern of students is in finding a way out to break
a `tie' (more than one student getting the same mark) for finalising
the rank list.
An analysis of the Plus-Two board examination results in 2005
shows that at every score, there were 300-400 students. For
example, if one considers the medical rank list of 2005 (only
the marks in biology, physics and chemistry) 344 students had
scored 199.25 out of 200.
The difference among candidates in a CET-based admission rank
list will be sharper.
Here the difference between two students can be just 0.05 marks,
whereas if the list is based on the higher secondary, the difference
will be 0.25 marks.
Anna University's former director of entrance tests and admissions
P.V. Navaneethakrishnan says the normalisation procedure (for
equating students from different Boards) should be more scientific.
Statistical parameters
Any formula should consider the statistical parameters of mean
and standard deviation of each set of values to be normalised.
One should also consider the different maximum marks in the
different streams.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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