New Delhi, April 16: The 3,000-odd teachers at the seven old Indian Institutes of Technology will get an opportunity to air their views on how to reform the IIT Joint Entrance Examination.

The IIT faculty federation has objected to the human resource development ministry’s proposal to give 40 per cent weightage to candidates’ Class XII board scores, saying this will not help pick the right students.

Now, the matter will pass through a series of consultations before being brought to the Central Advisory Board of Education in June for final approval. The board is the apex advisory body on education and has all the state education ministers as its members.

The faculty associations at the seven IITs will hold their general body meetings (GBMs) this month, with every teacher expected to participate and make suggestions about how to improve the all-India entrance test.

After that, the matter will be brought before each IIT’s senate, which has every professor at the institute as member.

IIT Kharagpur’s faculty association will hold its GBM on Thursday. The IIT Madras faculty association may not hold a GBM but has requested its director to invite the associate and assistant professors to the senate meeting.

“We have requested the director to invite every faculty member to the senate when the IIT-JEE reforms are discussed. The director has agreed,” a member of the IIT Madras faculty association said.

Last week, human resource development minister Kapil Sibal met IIT faculty federation members to seek their support on the changes proposed for the entrance exam.

The ministry had set up two committees, one headed by IIT Kharagpur director Damodar Acharya and the other by science and technology secretary T. Ramasami, to suggest the changes. Both panels recommended giving some weightage to Class XII board marks.

Under the ministry’s proposal, the board marks will receive 40 per cent weightage while the marks obtained in the entrance exam will carry 60 per cent weightage.

Each student will be awarded a percentile ranking based on his performance in his board exam. This percentile mark will be multiplied by 0.4 to get the score to be assigned to the student as his board marks.

The federation has alleged that the new assessment rules are being thrust upon the IITs without allowing them enough time for discussion. It has demanded that the changes be kept on ice until they are approved by the senate of each institute.

Each IIT senate is expected to come out with its resolution by May 10. By May 16-17, the IIT Council will prepare a draft after considering the views of the senates. By the end of May, the council will meet two faculty representatives from each senate to finalise the proposal.

The ministry will convene the Central Advisory Board of Education meeting in the first week of June to give the final shape to the IIT-JEE.