Preparatory Course
One year preparatory course for SC/ST candidates is offered to improve their intake in the B.Tech and Dual Degree programme. Generally 30 to 40 candidates from the non-qualified candidates list in the ranking order of JEE are taken. In addition to the Preparatory Course for SC/ST candidates, Physically Disable (PD) candidates are also allowed to undergo the preparatory course from the year 2009. The joint Admission Committee finally decides the admission of these students. In this programme have to undergo courses in Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and English for two semesters and successfully complete the courses.
On their successful completion, available discipline/branch in the B.Tech / Dual Degree programme will be allotted from the vacancies of that year’s quota for SC/ST/PD candidates. The course is residential. The students are eligible for all concessions during the period of coaching on par with the regular students in the matter of admission to the B.Tech / Dual Degree programmes
The results of IIT-JEE are declared. Only those who are included in the
merit list, will be declared to have 'qualfied'. The results of others
will show, 'not qualified' The results of the qualified candidates are
shown along with their rank number. In the list, SCs and STs will also
be included, and, if 'qualified', their names with rank number are
indicated. It means they have been included in the merit list.
In respect of SC and ST candidates, another rank list is
prepared, which is called 'Preparatory Rank list'. Those who hve not
scored the minimum marks for entering the main merit list,referred to
in the previous paragraph, will come under this Preparatory List. All
the names appearing along with rank number, in the Preparatory List,
have 'qualfied' for undergoing preparatory course in any IIT and also,
in Indian School of Mines and Institutue of Technology, in Benarus
Hindu University.
Therefore, your question whether your are eligible to undergo the
course in any IIT is answered in the affirmative. You are eligible. You
will be called for a separate counselling by the IIT JEE authorities on
a date after the the counselling for candidates who have qualfied for
the main merit list is over.
You may also note that the counselling for the main rank listed
candidates take place first. Courses and IITs are alloted to them.
Generally, there are always vancancies left over after allocating seats
to them. Because, many candidates prefer one course, but alloted other
course, which they reject. Or, alloted one IIT but they want another
IIT. Or, they may be getting a better course and a nearby institution
through other Entrance Exams like AIEEE etc.
In this year, there are more than 500 vacancies for SC and ST
candidates in all courses in all IITs and ISM and BHU, after the
counselling for the SC and ST candidates of the main rank list is over.
During the counselling for candidates qualified for prep.
course, they are shown the SC and ST vacancy position, IIT-wise,
course-wise available for them. They are given an option form, which
they should fill up and submit. During the counselling, every candidate
is called one after other, and their certificates etc. are verified.
Their option sheet is also taken.
After a week, the IIT JEE will announce the results of the counselling
to these prep. course candidates through the website. The announcement
will show which candidate has been alloted which course in which IIT.
After that, the role of IIT JEE authories comes to an end.
A fortnight thereafter, you will receive a call letter from the
IIT allotted to you asking you to join the prep. course from a
specified date. You go there and undergo the course for one year - in
which you will be taught the same subjects of M, P and C which you had
learnt in your XI and XII. Repeat the subjects. The course is semester
wise and each semester, your results will be annonced. At the course
end, you will be declared as either passed or failed.
If passed, you will have to go to the same IIT on the date they
have asked you to come, that will be well before the IIT-JEE 2008
candidates joining, and choose the course you like from among the
vacancies which were shown to you at the time of counselling, remember.
In other words, the vacancies of 2007. From 2008 you join the regular
B.Tech along with the successful candiates of IIT-JEE 2008. The SC and
ST vacancies of 2007 are carried forward to the seats of 2008.
You may also note, as a prep.course student, you will be
treated exactly like the students of B.Tech. of IIT 2007 joining your
IIT. Same hostel accomodation, same mess facility, same lib.faciltiy
-etc.- everything same except the course. You can enjoy your life.
The only hitch is that you take five years to get your B.Tech degree whereas others from the main rank list, take four years.
The list of challenges for Indian Institutes of Technology, or IITs,
to implement reservations for less privileged classes just got longer.In
the latest development, the ministry of human resource development has
asked all the IITs, which are mentoring six new IITs, to admit students
for a year-long preparatory course targeted towards the new institutes
to fill up vacant quota seats, a decision the institutes had put on
hold for a year for want of better infrastructure. The ministry
asked the IITs in a Tuesday night meeting to put up students for the
prep course as a way to fill the seats, according to a person with
knowledge of the meeting’s proceedings. “We have asked them to do this
from this year itself so that no seats are wasted,” this person said on
condition of anonymity. The development comes barely a fortnight after Mint first reported on 24 July that the six new IITs had decided not to admit students for the preparatory course this year. While
the older IITs have also faced the problem of finding enough students
who qualify for reserved seats in the scheduled castes and scheduled
tribes, or ST, categories, this is the first time that slots would have
gone vacant at the six new IITs. Unfilled seats at the older
IITs have continued to be filled by students who had failed to qualify,
but had then been admitted to a year-long preparatory course; these
students are later admitted to the IITs. For this academic year,
the mentor IITs had postponed admissions for the preparatory course to
next year, fearing an additional burden on infrastructure. At
the new IITs, only seven out of 54, or 12%, of the seats reserved for
ST students have been filled. In the IITs in Patna, Gandhinagar and
Orissa, no ST student has been admitted for the academic session that
began in August. The proposed IITs in Punjab and Rajasthan have admitted one student each, whereas IIT Hyderabad has five ST students. With
the new guidelines from the ministry, which oversees education, the
elite institutes are again in a fix. “Most new IITs have begun classes.
Any new directive on more students is going to make things more
difficult and we are really bursting at the seams,” an IIT director
said, requesting anonymity. “We have to attend to two institutes with
the infrastructure of one IIT.” Notably, the respective state
governments have not come up with specific sites for the IITs at
Punjab, Rajasthan and Orissa, which is why theseIITs have commenced
their classes at their mentor IITs at Kanpur, Delhi and Kharagpur,
respectively. IIT Patna, Gandhinagar and Hyderabad have been set up on temporary campuses.
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