Mumbai: Public Sector Undertaking (PSU) companies across India have asked all the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) and the National Institutes of Technology (NITs) to discontinue with western grading system. These institutes are being asked to convert their examination scoring methods into a more contemporary method based on percentages.
According to the public sector undertaking companies, the different grading systems followed by these institutes is a source of confusion and have hence asked the institutes to opt for a common percentage based scoring system. Moreover, the PSU companies have now asked these institutes to provide an equivalence of their grading systems by providing percentages.
In India most of the IITs, IIMs and NITs are mentored by foreign governments and hence, they had been using a Western system for grading students, the cumulative grade point index (CGPA). Furthermore, IIMs follow a system which is the same as the one followed in American universities, called the Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) where scoring is done on a scale of 1 to 4. IIM-Calcutta grades its students on a scale of 1 through 9.
Furthermore, all of these institutes are sovereign in nature and have their own grading systems. All IITs, except IIT-Kanpur have been following a system of grading called the Cumulative Performance Index (CPI) on a scale of 1 to 10. On the other hand, NITs have asked PSUs to devise and use their own conversion system or take up the matter with the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE). In addition, several IIMS as well have now come up with their own systems for conversion of scores to avoid the confusion faced by PSU recruiters.
