IT Entrance Examination at designated centres, no use of pen and paper
The entrance examination for the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) will go completely online from 2018. This has been decided but the Joint Admission Board (JAB) recently. The JAB, which is the policy-making body on IIT admissions, took the decision at a meeting in Chennai.
IIT-Madras Statement
IIT-Madras’ Director and Chairman of JAB 2017, Prof Bhaskar Ramamurthi said, “It has been decided that the JEE (Advanced) will be conducted in online mode from 2018 onwards. Further information regarding the examination will be provided by the JAB in due course.”
“In order to make logistics and evaluations easier it was decided today that the JEE-Advanced should be made online. The concept was being discussed for many years, but it was necessary to have adequate infrastructure to conduct the exam online,” a JAB member said.
WHAT IS JEE MAINs
The JEE-Mains is the entrance examination for admission to engineering courses offered across the country. It is a qualifying exam for JEE-Advanced which is required for admission to the prestigious IITs and NITs. More than 13 lakh students took the JEE-Mains this year, with less than 10 per cent of them going online. Around 2.2 lakh students were eligible to write the JEE (Advanced).
Earlier Major Changes in JEE Pattern
Ministry of Human Resource Development notified two major changes in the JEE pattern for 2017
1. Firstly–no weightage for the 12th class marks in calculating the ranks in the JEE (Main) examination
2. Secondly for candidates whose admissions are based on the JEE (Advanced)/JEE(Main) ranks, they should have secured at least 75% marks in the 12th class examination, or be in the top 20 percentile in the 12th class examination conducted by the respective Boards.
3. For SC/ST students the qualifying marks would be 65% in the 12th class examination
