A new policy shift by the All IITs Placement Committee (AIPC) has directed students across all 23 Indian Institutes of Technology to remove JEE ranks, GATE scores, percentiles and similar entrance examination details from their resumes during campus placement and internship processes. The guideline, communicated through the Career Development Centres of the IITs, is intended to standardise resumes and ensure that recruiters evaluate candidates based on their performance after entering IITs rather than on their entrance exam performance.
According to AIPC convenor John Jose, the move is aimed at reducing potential bias in recruitment, particularly the possibility that employers could infer a candidate’s admission category by cross-referencing entrance ranks with programme cut-offs. The emphasis, he said, is on assessing students based on what they have achieved during their time at IITs, including academic performance, projects, internships, research work and technical skills, rather than on a one-time entrance examination result.
Under the revised framework, students will still be able to highlight their CPI, academic achievements and other accomplishments within IITs, while entrance exam scores may still be shared if specifically requested by recruiters but will no longer be part of the standard CV format used in placement drives. The decision has been positioned as part of an effort to promote fairness and reduce discrimination during recruitment.
The move has, however, triggered mixed reactions. Supporters see it as a step toward creating a more inclusive evaluation system focused on current capability rather than past rankings, while critics argue that JEE and GATE ranks are themselves strong indicators of merit and academic excellence that should not be hidden. Some alumni and commentators have questioned whether removing such information reduces transparency, while others say recruiters will still be able to assess merit through grades, projects and interviews.
Overall, the policy marks a shift in how elite engineering institutes in India want student achievement to be represented during placements, moving emphasis away from entrance exam rankings toward performance within the IIT system itself.
