IIT exam format decided, board exams will decide who's eligible

New Delhi: For students aching to know what it will take to get into IIT, there's finally closure.

The IIT council has decided that starting next year, students who score in the top 20% of their board exams will take the main or multiple-choice exam. 50,000 students will then take the advanced exam, which will not be held on the same day.
What Mr Sibal has won is the IIT's commitment that the new format will be implemented in 2013, a year earlier than what its faculty was in favour of.

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