The row between government and IITs over entrance test was resolved on Wednesday with the Directors of all the 15 Indian Institute of Technology-IITs having agreed to implement the new admission format from next academic year-2013. At a meeting of IIT Council held in New Delhi today, it was decided that 20 per cent of the top scorers from State Boards will be eligible to take the main entrance test for IITs. According to the agreement, admission will be based only on rank achieved in the advance test subject to the condition that selected candidates are in the top 20 percentile of successful candidates of their Boards.

Talking to AIR, Director, IIT-Delhi, Prof R K Shevgaonkar said, 1.5 lakh students will be screened for the advance test. It will be used as eligibility criterion. He is also the Chairman of Joint Admission Board, JAB, who made all the recommendations. Professor Shevgaonkar said these two set of tests -main and advanced will not be held on the same day.

AIR Correspondent reports, that JAB has sought a suitable time gap between the main and the advanced tests so that the results of mains are available before that advanced and only the top 1,50,000 candidates, including all categories in the mains, appear in the advance test.