IITs Quota Seats 2013

IITs Quota Seats 2013 ,Indian Institutes of Technology ,Mandatory Quota Seats

IITs restart preparation courses to fill up quota seats

lack of qualified candidates to fill up the mandatory quota seats, the Indian Institutes of Technology have not only lowered the cut-offs for the reserved category students but also restarted the year-long preparatory courses.

IITs have outsourced the preparatory course to their counterparts in other tech schools. For instance, IIT-Roorkee is holding these classes for not just their students but also those of IIT-Delhi and IIT-Mandi. IIT-Madras is conducting 'prep classes' as they are known, for its candidates and those of IIT-Bombay, IIT-Hyderabad and IIT-Gandhinagar. Apart from running the course for its candidates, IIT-Kharagpur is also training students of IIT-Patna and IIT-Bhubaneshwar.

Preparatory courses are special coaching classes for reserved category students who fail to make the grade despite a substantial lowering of the cut-off marks. These students are taken in when there are not enough candidates to fill up the quota seats.

IITs provide concessions to quota students. 

They lower entry levels for them, going as slow as 50% below the last general category student's marks to do justice to the quota. But to reach the colleges' full capacity, scores are relaxed once again and students are selected to be coached in maths, physics and chemistry for a year before they can join the IITs after clearing an internal test. 

After successful completion of preparatory programme, you must join the institute where you have been allotted a seat originally," reads a notice by the IITs to the candidates.