4 months ago
3
The KEAM engineering examinations successful Kerala this twelvemonth (2026) volition beryllium conducted utilizing a revised normalisation formula, modelled connected the strategy followed successful Tamil Nadu.
The betterment is being reintroduced aft it had faced beardown absorption past year, arsenic it was implemented aft the entranceway examinations had already been conducted. Subsequently, the Kerala High Court directed the State authorities to revert to the erstwhile look aft observing that the abrupt alteration could adversely impact students from CBSE and ISCE streams.
Under the caller framework, adjacent weightage (50:50) volition beryllium assigned to the normalised entranceway introspection people and the marks secured successful the last twelvemonth of the qualifying examination.
Government sources constituent retired that normalisation of entranceway scores is indispensable to guarantee that candidates bash not summation undue vantage oregon endure disadvantage owed to differences successful question insubstantial trouble levels crossed sessions. Besides, it is estimated that the marks secured by State Board students utilized to alteration by arsenic overmuch arsenic 35 marks during the normalisation process arsenic per the erstwhile formula, adjacent successful the lawsuit of those who scored afloat marks.
The determination comes successful the backdrop of computer-based tests being conducted successful aggregate sessions implicit antithetic days since 2024 for engineering and pharmacy courses, starring to insignificant variations among question insubstantial patterns of assorted sessions.
An interior committee observed that the existing standardisation argumentation did not adequately warrant people variations among students who had studied akin syllabi.
It is besides pointed retired that the syllabi followed by CBSE, State boards and different recognised boards are mostly based connected NCERT textbooks, and important disparities successful world mentation among students are mostly absent. In specified a context, the contiguous standardisation procedures were recovered to make unnecessary people differentials, and could perchance impact the principles of acquisition equity.
Cabinet approval
Accepting the committee’s recommendations, the State Cabinet had approved the revised normalisation model.
Admission volition beryllium regulated connected the ground of merit calculated arsenic an scale people retired of 600 with adjacent weightage fixed to the normalised entranceway introspection people and the marks obtained successful the last qualifying introspection (both retired of 300).
For the qualifying introspection component, the marks successful Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry volition beryllium combined successful the ratio 5:3:2 (translating to a organisation of Mathematics: 150 marks, Physics: 90 marks and Chemistry: 60 marks).
In cases wherever a campaigner has not studied Chemistry, marks successful Computer Science volition beryllium considered. If some Chemistry and Computer Science were not studied, Biotechnology marks volition beryllium taken into account, and successful their absence, Biology marks volition beryllium considered.
The applicable clauses successful the KEAM 2026 prospectus volition beryllium amended accordingly to incorporated the revised methodology.
