JEE 2013 emerges in its final form
The Joint Advanced Board (JAB) has finally cleared the clouds of confusion hovering over Advanced Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) 2013 format. It has been announced that the Advanced JEE, scheduled to be conducted on June 2, 2013, will not be subjective and will retain IIT JEE 2012 format.
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Format of Advanced JEE 2013
The test will be conducted in two sessions on the same day – each with objective-type multiple choice questions (MCQs). The marks for both the sections will not be revealed.
Other aspects of IIT JEE 2012 to continue for the next year include:
- Students will be able to take a copy of their answer sheets home.
- Optical Response Sheets (ORS) of the students will be available to them online.
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The difficulty level and marks allotted to Advanced JEE exam will also be similar to previous JEEs. The announcement came as a relief to students who had already started preparing for IIT JEE, as they won’t have to prepare for the exam afresh.
Earlier, it was rumoured that Advanced JEE may turn out to be tougher than this year’s IIT JEE exam. Several IITs, including IIT Bombay, were in favour of introducing the subjective test for Advanced JEE. But since it would have been unfair for students who were already preparing as per the existing IIT JEE format, it was finally decided that new changes will not be introduced for Advanced JEE 2013. Know more
Separate merit lists will be drawn for states that want to admit students on the basis of JEE scores. Question papers will also be printed in regional languages on demand.
However, the format for the exam may change in the subsequent years.
Students might migrate to states with lower cut-offs
Experts speculate that since only top 20 percentilers will be eligible to appear for Advanced JEE exam, necessary for admission to IITs, students might move to state boards with lower cut-offs. See details
The state boards and other education boards across the country have different levels of quality, fairness, and functioning criteria. The Council of Boards of School Education in India recently released a list of approximate cut-offs in different education boards, required to be eligible for IITs, that highlighted the vast difference among the boards. Students from ‘weaker’ states may find it easier to achieve the Top 20 percentile status than a student from another state. Hence, students from other states who can afford to migrate to a ‘weaker’ state may take advantage of the situation.
If it happens, students from economically backward strata and rural areas might be at a disadvantage as they won’t have the adequate facilities to be able to make it to IITs. Nevertheless, coaching institutes are gearing up to offer programmes to suit the JEE 2013 format, which will focus on boards as well as both the JEE exams. They will also charge a premium, which will reflect in the increase in their fees.
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