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June 15 deadline set for Plus Two marks

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CEE intends to publish rank list by June 25

512 students told to produce statistical data Website likely to become operational next week

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: As many as 512 students who wrote their Plus Two examinations under various boards in India and abroad (excluding the CBSE and the ICSE) will now have to procure the ‘mean' and ‘standard deviation' of the results of their batch before June 15 so that their scores can be ‘normalised' prior to the preparation of this year's rank list for admission to engineering courses in Kerala.

This directive has come even as the normalisation committee met here on Saturday to discuss the roadblocks in procuring the marks-related data from the various examination boards and to discuss the course of action if such data are not forthcoming from one or more boards.

The 512 students have been directed to provide these marks-related data to the office of the Commissioner for Entrance Examinations (CEE).

The CEE has already received the results of the Kerala higher secondary, vocational higher secondary, CBSE class 12, and ICSE class 12 examinations.

These results relate to 99 per cent of the 65,632 candidates who have cleared the engineering entrance examinations.

The website for candidates to submit their Plus Two scores is expected to become operational next week, possibly on Monday.

At Saturday's meeting, the committee resolved that the engineering rank list would be published after the process of normalisation.

The CEE intended to publish the rank list by June 25, a press note issued here said.

Steps had been taken to procure marks-related data from various examination boards within the country and abroad, the press note said.

Sources in the committee said the meeting discussed ways in which the results of students from boards whose mean and standard deviation were not received could be statistically mapped on to the results of boards whose data were made available.

The possibility of ‘pooling' certain boards was also discussed.

Under this arrangement, if the mean and standard deviation of a board in a pool was not received, the marks of a candidate from that board would be mapped to the scores of that pool.

Panel meet on June 17

The normalisation committee would meet again on June 17 to take a final call on the normalisation process.

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