College Admissions & Entrance Exams Updates
IIT Entrance Exam : New avatar on cards
Published on : 13-Nov-2015 Powered by www.Opasis.com
Come 2017, the Indian Institute of Technology Joint Entrance Examination (IIT JEE) could have a new avatar.
Those aspiring to get admission in the premier engineering institutes will have to take an aptitude test that will evaluate their scientific mettle and innovative thinking ability. The online test may be offered twice or more times a year. National Testing Service (NTS), the agency that will conduct the test, will be set up in 2016.
A member of the Committee of Eminent Persons (CEP) said the purpose of the test was to discourage students from mugging up or joining coaching classes, as is now the norm.
The committee chaired by Ashok Misra, a senior academic, was constituted on October 6 and submitted its recommendations to the Centre on November 5. The changes in the JEE have been mooted by the committee.
The IITs and the Union Human Resource Development ministry have been concerned about the practice of aspiring techies increasingly joining coaching classes to crack the challenging entrance exams.
The idea is to discourage the culture of joining coaching classes. A test that evaluates scientific aptitude could keep students and their parents away from coaching classes because one cannot be trained in aptitude, said a member of the committee, who did not want to be named.
The government has decided to keep the committee's recommendations in the public domain for consultation with stake holders.
Students would get admission to the 19 IITs based on the test conducted by NTS.
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Those aspiring to get admission in the premier engineering institutes will have to take an aptitude test that will evaluate their scientific mettle and innovative thinking ability. The online test may be offered twice or more times a year. National Testing Service (NTS), the agency that will conduct the test, will be set up in 2016.
A member of the Committee of Eminent Persons (CEP) said the purpose of the test was to discourage students from mugging up or joining coaching classes, as is now the norm.
The committee chaired by Ashok Misra, a senior academic, was constituted on October 6 and submitted its recommendations to the Centre on November 5. The changes in the JEE have been mooted by the committee.
The IITs and the Union Human Resource Development ministry have been concerned about the practice of aspiring techies increasingly joining coaching classes to crack the challenging entrance exams.
The idea is to discourage the culture of joining coaching classes. A test that evaluates scientific aptitude could keep students and their parents away from coaching classes because one cannot be trained in aptitude, said a member of the committee, who did not want to be named.
The government has decided to keep the committee's recommendations in the public domain for consultation with stake holders.
Students would get admission to the 19 IITs based on the test conducted by NTS.
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