Wednesday, August 22, 2012

FIRST NOTIFICATION OF JEE 2013 out!!

 Putting to rest all confusion over admission to Indian Institutes of Technology(IITs), the joint admission board (JAB) of IITs clarified that the format of the joint entrance examination (JEE)-Advanced paper will be the same as that of IIT-JEE in the last few years. 

The ministry for human resource development (MHRD) issued its first ever notification on JEE-2013 for admissions to all centrally-funded technical institutes on August 14. 

JEE-Advanced, which will determine admissions to IITs for 2013, will be held on June 2. The JEE-Advanced paper will only have multiple-choice questions which the students will attempt in two sessions, morning and afternoon. This will come as a relief for aspirants who had been preparing in keeping with the old format which did not include subjective questions. Several IITs, including the one in Mumbai, were in favour of a subjective JEE. 

The difficulty level of and the marks allotted to JEE-Advanced tests will be similar to that of previous JEEs. 

"We have decided that the format of the test should remain the same as it is too late to introduce changes. However, the notification is just for 2013. The MHRD has also formed an apex board in order to have a smooth JEE-Main and JEE-Advanced this year and in future too," said a seniorofficial from IIT-Bombay. Ashok Misra, the former director of the institute, is the honorary chairperson of the JAB. 

The official, who attended the JAB meeting, added, "Machine-readable answersheets will also be retained. The rule allowing candidates to take home a copy of their answersheets will also be followed. While the format and everything else will remain the same in 2013, it can change in future." 

According to the notification, top 1.5 lakh candidates, including all categories, from the JEE-Main exam will be eligible to appear for the JEE-Advanced. Students who qualify in the JEE-Advanced exam and fall in the top 20 percentile of the successful candidates in their respective board results will be eligible for admission to IITs. 

If states want to admit any students on the basis of JEE scores, a separate state merit list will be given to them. Questions papers can be printed in regional language on demand.

Tuesday, August 07, 2012

UNCERTAINTY OVER: Advance JEE to be held on June 2 next year

KANPUR: The Advance Joint Entrance Exam-2013 would be held on June 2 next year. The blueprint of the conduct of the exam has been prepared in IIT Delhi. The students appearing in this Advanced JEE would be getting a chance to take admission in IITs, IT-BHU and ISM-Dhanbad. 

The Joint Admission Board (JAB) has accepted the percentile based formula for conducting the JEE in 2013. Deliberation in this regard was held during the JAB meeting held in Delhi on Sunday. 

The IIT-JEE aspirants will be required to appear in a screening test first. Those who will qualify will be given an opportunity to sit in the Advanced JEE. The students will be tested upon their knowledge in Physics, Chemistry and Maths. The exam would be held in two shifts as it was held in JEE-2012. The questions will be objective in nature. The duration for each paper would be three hours. 

It is also important to mention that the exam would be held under the aegis of IIT system. The IITs will only hold academic and administration rights to interfere in the exam, if need be.


Courtesy: THE TIMES OF INDIA