The
IIT entrance exam will go completely online from next year, according
to a member of the IIT Joint Admission Board. The JAB, which is the
policy-making body on IIT admissions, took the decision at a meeting in
Chennai.
In a statement, Director, IIT-Madras, and Chairman 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.”
The HRD Ministry had earlier introduced the option of taking the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE)- Mains online.
The
JEE-Mains is the entrance examination for admission to engineering
courses offered across the country and a qualifying exam for
JEE-Advanced which is required for admission to the prestigious IITs and
NITs.
“In order to make logistics and evaluations easier it was
decided today that the JEE-Advanced should be made online,” a JAB member
said. “The concept was being discussed for many years, but it was
necessary to have adequate infrastructure to conduct the exam online,”
the member added.
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).
For
admission engineering in 23 Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs),
students have to appear for the Joint Entrance Examination – Advanced
(JEE – Advanced). It is the sole admission test for the IITs.
Earlier
this year, the Ministry of Human Resource Development notified two
major changes in the JEE pattern for 2017. Firstly, there shall be no
weightage for the 12th class marks in calculating the ranks in the JEE
(Main) examination. Secondly, for the candidates to qualify for the
admission in the IITs/NITs/IIITs and such other CFTIs 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.
For SC/ST students the qualifying marks would be 65% in the 12th class examination.
(With inputs from PTI)
