Kanpur, July 29 : IIT Kanpur decided on Saturday that it will not conduct its own entrance examination in 2013 and will take part in the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE).
It was decided that the joint admission board's (JAB) recommendations arrived at and adopted by the IIT Council be accepted as an interim measure for JEE-2013, keeping in view the need to remove any uncertainty in the minds of students.
The controversy over whether to conduct its own entrance examination in 2013 instead of participating in the JEE, or accepting the recommendations arrived at in the JAB meeting held on June 23 and adopted by the IIT Council on June 27 has now been settled.
The undergraduate admission committee, which was formed to conduct the entrance exam, was dissolved, a release issued by the institute said.
IIT-K senate has accepted the compromise formula, which includes a proposal to take the top 20-30 students based on percentile ranking of respective boards for preparing the merit list.
This formula had been worked out when the directors of all the IITs had met during the JAB meeting in Delhi on June 23.
The percentile formula, replacing the proposed format of giving weightage to board results, has also been accepted during the meeting.
