Revised guidelines for Engineering Exam

The decision of the education minister regarding the revised guidelines for preparation of rank lists by taking in to account the marks obtained in +2 exam with that in the entrance exam in equal weightage is hasty and without much logical home work.
Entrance examination is a testing grounds for any student to evaluate one’s capabilities and abilities in respect of admission to a professional college in relation to one,s chosen academic stream. Over the years the entrance examination has gained high importance and the inability in conducting the exam in a fair manner might have generated controversies which have affected the students ,parents and administrators. The logic behind introducing these as formal procedure was varied marks of different school boards could not be used to create a common merit list. These entrance exams are basically multiple-choice questions or popularly known as MCQs in the academic lingo. This pattern was introduced as it was considered that the scores obtained by students on conventional, long answer papers which might not represent the actual potential of the student. So the educational authorities should think over it twice before introducing a sweeping change in the exam pattern for selection of students to professional colleges.