Admissions at the Andhra Pradesh IIITs or the Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies (RGUKT) have been postponed by a week.With the directorate of government examinations introducing grading for class X examinations,officials at the institute have decided to go for a fresh means of calculating ranks.
In a media conference on Wednesday,RGUKT announced that the admissions which were supposed to begin this week are to be put on hold till SSC officials gave them enough data based on which they can shortlist candidates.
We have not received any data from SSC officials.We will wait till they pass on the students scores to us.With the grading system having been introduced,we need to device a new way to admit students based on merit, said N Vineeth Chandra,spokesperson,AP IIITs.
A total of 3,000 seats are available in the IIITs.Till last year,students were admitted to these institutions on the basis of their Class X marks.