What seems like a never ending game of improving the IIT JEE entrance examination, the central government is contemplating playing for another session; this time by throwing the challenge of an Aptitude Test to the aspirants in place of IIT JEE Main.
It was a shocking situation for some of the students on June 30, when they logged-on to see their ranks of IIT JEE Main 2015 and found it missing on the CBSE website. Some of the state boards including Telangana State Board of Intermediate Education had failed to submit marks of their students to CBSE, which were to be used for the calculation of final JEE Main ranks. It seems highly unlikely that CBSE can get things right in one go without any confusion or mistakes. After long delay in declaring the results and seat allocation process, now it is bearing the brunt of complaints made by some students that their revised scores (the ones after re-evaluation) of class XII were not considered in calculating final percentile and ranks of JEE Main, which will be used for seat allocation in NITs. The Joint Admissions Committee of IIT is contemplating introduction of a third exam after IIT JEE Main and IIT JEE Advanced in 2017, which is going to be a written section. The board says the move will curtail guess work by students and will screen them on the basis of actual strength of concepts, they hold. This is surely expected to increase the difficulty level of an already complicated exam. This concept of having a comprehension and associated subjective questions is not knew in IIT JEE and has been there in past several years before the format moved to a completely/partially objective one (with 'fill in the blanks' type questions). The only difference lies in the fact that while all the candidates giving JEE Advanced will have to appear for this component, answers of only those who score a certain minimum marks in Advanced will be evaluated. Some experts and authorities believe that this move will decrease the coaching-centre hegemony, whereas FreeShiksha's independent take is exactly opposite to this notion. Years back when the concept of subjective papers was done away with, in JEE, same reason was given that this will ease the process for candidates who prepare on their own. Now how can moving back to a subjective exam and making it tougher for students contribute in alleviating the commercialization of JEE Preparation remains a debatable question now. This year, the seat allocation process for both the institutes i.e. IITs and NITs will take place jointly from Monday. Till last year, students used to have the option of filling their choices before every round; but this year they will get to fill their choices only once. Hence students are advised to be extra cautious about filling their choices. There will be a mock allocation round organized by The Joint Seat Allocation Authority (JoSAA), during and after which students can modify their choices. This will just be an indicator of the seats
IIT JEE Main result was declared on Monday, 27th April. The cut-off score for qualification to the JEE Advanced exam is 105 for general category students.
With that, the focus of students has now shifted towards other more or equally important Engineering Entrance Exams. So here is the list of most important exams which they would be eying on: CET - 12 and 13 May, 2015 BITSAT - May 14 to 29 JEE Advanced - May 24 Banasthali Vidyapeeth - May 30 SAAT 2015 - May 9 KLUEEE - May 2 (Offline) and May 16 (online) WATCH: "HOW TO PREPARE FOR BITSAT - 2015"
Eligibility criteria for JEE (Advanced) 2015: Who can apply: Only two consecutive year attempts are legitimate. Those candidates can apply for JEE (Advanced) 2015, who appeared for Class 12 examination in 2015 or 2014. The candidates who appeared for the board exams in 2013 or earlier, are not eligible. JEE (Main) 2015 Cut-off: Only 1.5 lakh top rankers of JEE Main will be eligible to sit for JEE Advanced. The candidates who will meet the cut-off (expected to be 115 for |
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