Single national level entrance exam from 2013
The Union government plans to introduce a single national-level entrance exam for students from all streams for entry into higher education from 2013, on the lines of the Scholastic Aptitude Test in the US.
Kapil Sibal Union human resource development minister Kapil Sibal said a ‘task force’ on how to go about this will be named in a month. Terming the decision a “historic” one, he said it would have two years to decide how to structure the said exam, including how much weightage to give the school-leaving examination.
“The idea is that there will be a single entrance exam for each stream,” Sibal said in a speech at a meeting here of the Council of Boards of School Education in India (COBSE). The meeting had representatives from 20 different school boards.
The recommendation to have a single entrance test for higher studies had been made by the Yash Pal committee on ‘Renovation and Rejuvenation of Higher Education’.
The idea, said Sibal, is “to have a level-playing field and reduce the burden on students who are appearing for multiple tests to get into these disciplines”.
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