Aug 21 2017
:
The Times of India
(NaviMumbai)
JEE Advanced will go online from next year to fix errors
The IIT Joint Admission
Board announced on Sunday that the Joint Entrance Examination (Advanced)
would go online from 2018. Errors in the question paper this year
prompted the change, officials said.
They said an online test will help prevent mistakes and also avert situations like what they encountered last year when 18 bonus marks were given to candidates who took the JEE (A) because of printing and translation errors in the question paper. After a meeting on Sunday, JAB members said they were optimistic that the online version of the JEE Ad online version of the JEE Advanced will ensure that there is greater accuracy and transparency in the test.
Candidates in 2018 are likely to continue to have the option of taking either the online or written version of the JEE (Mains), the qualifying test for the JEE Advanced. The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) conducts the qualifying test, which only 10% of all candidates chose to take online in 2017.
More than 1.5 lakh students took the JEE Advanced in 2017.Officials had put the admission process on hold temporarily after a group of students pointed out mistakes in the question paper. The Supreme Court heard a plea by the students in July and directed the JAB to award them bonus marks and submit an undertaking to the court that it would develop a suitable mechanism so such errors would not take place again. “The online version of the test will make logistics easier and the evaluation process more accurate,“ a senior official with the human resource development (HRD) ministry said. “It will also take care of security issues because there will be no scope for question papers leaks.“ IIT-M director and JAB chairman Bhaskar Ramamurthi said printing costs would drop with the online version and the board would be able to declare results faster.
They said an online test will help prevent mistakes and also avert situations like what they encountered last year when 18 bonus marks were given to candidates who took the JEE (A) because of printing and translation errors in the question paper. After a meeting on Sunday, JAB members said they were optimistic that the online version of the JEE Ad online version of the JEE Advanced will ensure that there is greater accuracy and transparency in the test.
Candidates in 2018 are likely to continue to have the option of taking either the online or written version of the JEE (Mains), the qualifying test for the JEE Advanced. The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) conducts the qualifying test, which only 10% of all candidates chose to take online in 2017.
More than 1.5 lakh students took the JEE Advanced in 2017.Officials had put the admission process on hold temporarily after a group of students pointed out mistakes in the question paper. The Supreme Court heard a plea by the students in July and directed the JAB to award them bonus marks and submit an undertaking to the court that it would develop a suitable mechanism so such errors would not take place again. “The online version of the test will make logistics easier and the evaluation process more accurate,“ a senior official with the human resource development (HRD) ministry said. “It will also take care of security issues because there will be no scope for question papers leaks.“ IIT-M director and JAB chairman Bhaskar Ramamurthi said printing costs would drop with the online version and the board would be able to declare results faster.
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