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National Testing Service mooted
Aspirants of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) and National Institutes of Technology (NIT) should brace up for major changes in the examination pattern.
Panel for scrapping JEE Advanced
Hyderabad: Aspirants of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) and National Institutes of Technology (NIT) should brace up for major changes in the examination pattern.
Starting from 2017, admissions to IITs and NITs will be done based on the aptitude test and Joint Entrance Examination (JEE). These were the recommendations submitted to the Central government by Prof Ashok Misra’s Committee of Eminent Persons (CEP) constituted by the IIT Council recently.
At present, admissions to IITs and NITs are based on JEE Main and JEE Advanced ranks. The committee in its report to the government recommended that a National Testing Service shall be set up by early 2016 which will be mandated to conduct an aptitude test.
The online aptitude exam which will be conducted twice or more in a year will test the scientific aptitude and innovative thinking of the aspirants. The questions will be based on scientific thinking and cannot be gamed through coaching.
Further based on the performance of the students in the aptitude test, it recommended that four lakh students shall be shortlisted for appearing for JEE.
The committee has decided to do away with the JEE Main which is presently taken has a qualifier exam for JEE Advanced. However, it said that JEE exam will be on the lines of the current JEE Advanced which will test the candidates in physics, chemistry and mathematics subjects and will be conducted by the IITs.
Of the total candidates who appear for the JEE, ranks will be issued to 40,000 students for admission into IITs and NITs based on the common counselling.
To checkmate the coaching industry which charge a bomb for the classes, the committee recommended that the government to request IITs to set up a system for developing mock JEE which will help students prepare for the JEE significantly and wean them away from the coaching industry.
It advised to explore the possibility of using the Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) platform to prepare the students. The committee advocated the Central government to take measures for improvement of school education and method of examination of the boards, so that students with the science aptitude are well versed in the concepts by the time they reach class XII, without dependence on coaching institutions.
The CEP decided to continue two-tier JEE exam till 2017 and increased the number of eligible candidates to be allowed for taking JEE advanced from 1.5 lakh to 2 lakh. It also recommended that boards marks shall not be counted for giving ranks this year for NITs, Centrally-funded technical institutions.
However, the government has considered to enhance intake from 1.5 lakh (JEE Main) to two lakh into the JEE (Advanced) stage and decided to continue giving weightage to Board marks in JEE-Main this year. Like earlier, more than 40,000 ranks will be issued in JEE (Advanced) and joint counselling will be held by IITs and NITs.
The government has placed the recommendations of the committee in the public domain for widespread consultations with the stakeholders.
