Inter cut-off for IIT entry zooms by 30 per cent
The cut-off marks for admission to the Indian Institutes of Technology has zoomed by nearly 30 per cent this year, thanks to the new top-20 percentile norm introduced by the Centre. Only 1.24 lakh students have cleared the mark this year. General category students must get over 89.81 per cent in the 10+2 exams, according to an analysis conducted by the Board of Intermediate Education. The cut-off for students belonging to the Scheduled Castes was 84.34 per cent, Scheduled Tribes, 85.28 and other categories, 88.30 per cent. Earlier, the mark was set at 60 per cent for general category students and 55 per cent for reserved categ-ory students in 10+2 exams. To achieve the new cut-off level, general category students must score 476 marks out of 530 to qualify for IITs. The marks are 447 for Scheduled Castes students, 452 for the STs and 468 for other reserved categories. Only 1.24 lakh students figure in the top-20 percentile list, out of the 3.7