FIITJEE students celebrate their success at a city hotel on Saturday. Picture by Nagendra Kumar Singh

Patna, June 22: Some coaching institutes are basking in the glory of their students’ IIT-JEE success this year while others, unhappy with the exam system, are planning to move high court.

The disgruntled institutes are unhappy over unnecessary conditions being imposed in the IIT-JEE on the children.

FIITJEE, Patna centre, Vision Classes, Marg Darshan and Akash Classes are some of the coaching institutes that have claimed to have excelled in the IIT-JEE 2013.

Akash Classes, a coaching institute run by a trust, Indian Institute of Fundamental Science, coaches a batch of 30 students for IIT-JEE every year but just seven could make it to the IIT merit list this year.

“Kapil Sibal has made a mockery of IITs’ education scenario, which is taking a heavy toll on students’ careers. IIT is in itself a tough examination and you (the government) are imposing conditions that makes it further difficult,” S.K. Mishra, the founder of Akash Classes, told The Telegraph.

Mishra, a high court advocate, is contemplating to move the Patna High Court to challenge the changed rules in IIT-JEE. “When you organise an all-India written test, let merit prevail over everything. Why does the government put a condition of scoring at least 80 per cent marks in Plus Two examinations? Time and again, an appearing candidate qualifies in the IIT preliminary examination but later, he/she gets less than 80 per cent and becomes ineligible to appear for the mains.”

“Of FIITJEE Patna centre’s 511 IIT aspirants, 69 made it to the merit list this year,” said Sharat Prakash, the director of the institute’s Patna centre.

Ankur Kumar, a student of FIITJEE, said: “I was expecting a much better rank than what I got. Anyhow, I will take admission and not drop out. The institute’s guidance has been instrumental in my success.”

“Ninety-five per cent credit of the success goes to the students as they have toiled hard with dedication. Our contribution is just five per cent, as we just provide direction and guidance to hone the talent among the students. We have done well this year too, as last year 62 students were selected,” Prakash said.

Kanhaiya Singh, the director of Vision Classes, which opened its centre in Patna in 2008, claimed that 95 students have been selected from his institute in IIT-JEE this year.

“The results have been quite good this year. We have fared well in the rankings too. But the most important thing is that the number of candidates appearing for the boards was quite high at 40 per cent. That implies that students come to our coaching centre to prepare for the board examination too,” Singh said.

Fifty students out of 700 students cleared the IIT from Marg Darshan this year. Nilesh Ranjan, the academic head of the institute, was not happy with the performance, especially the rankings of students across all coaching institutes in the capital.

Ranjan said: “Rankings should have improved but it did not happen. There was some confusion among students regarding the rules that were changed from this year. Students from rural background could not clinch better rankings, as usually late starters compared to the students belonging to urban centres.”