Don’t scrap weightage to class 12 marks in KEAM permanently: R.V.G. Menon

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The 50% weightage given to class 12 marks in the KEAM (Kerala Engineering Architecture Medical) entrance examination can be avoided this time as various educational boards have cancelled the examinations, but it should not be scrapped permanently, R.V.G. Menon, educationalist, has said. Prof. Menon, who led the Entrance Examination Reforms Committee appointed by the then government in 2006, had submitted a report in 2008 stating that 50% weightage should be given to the performance of the aspirants in the qualifying examination. Since 2011, the State has been finalising the KEAM ranks on the basis of a 50:50 criteria wherein equal weightage is given to the score obtained through the entrance examination and the marks obtained for mathematics, physics and chemistry in Class 12 examinations.