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Open computer labs for JEE Advance aspirants: CBSE to schools

Prakash Kumar, DH News Service, New Delhi, Mar 15 2018, 17:12 IST

The CBSE has directed its schools to open the doors of their computer laboratories for such students to enable them to take the mock test ahead of the examinations to be held for admission in the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) in May. 

Engineering aspirants can take a mock test for JEE-Advance using the computers available at their nearby schools which are affiliated to the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE).

The CBSE has directed its schools to open the doors of their computer laboratories for such students to enable them to take the mock test ahead of the examinations to be held for admission in the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) in May.

"This facility may be extended to the students who are qualified to write JEE-Advance examination only," the board said in its directive to about 18,000 schools affiliated to it in India and abroad.

The move is aimed to benefit rural students as the joint admission board of the IITs have decided to conduct the JEE-Advance in online mode only from this year, doing away with the system of holding the test in pen and paper mode.

The IIT-Kanpur is scheduled to hold the mock test for the JEE aspirants between May 1 to May 5.

The nationwide test is conducted in two parts-JEE Main and JEE Advance. While the National Institutes of Technology (NITs) and other centrally-funded technical institutes admit students on the basis of their performance in the JEE-Main, a joint admission board of the 23 IITs conduct the JEE-Advance for filling their seats.

The CBSE is scheduled to conduct the JEE-Main in pen and paper mode across the country on April 8. The computer-based test for the JEE-Main aspirants, who have opted for it, will be held by the board on April 15 and April 16.

The IITs will conduct the JEE Advance on May 20.

In a separate notification on Wednesday, the CBSE assured that the JEE-Main questions will have same difficulty level for each set of the question papers prepared for this year.

"The subject experts who have prepared the question papers have certified that the entire syllabus of Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry has been covered in each question set by dividing the syllabus of each subject into an appropriate number of units and choosing an equal number of questions from each unit," the board said.

In every question paper set, each subject would carry the same percentage of "easy, medium and difficult" questions, it said.

This ensures the same difficulty level of each set of question paper for this year," the board added

Source : http://www.deccanherald.com/content/664785/open-computer-labs-jee-advance.html