JEE Advance 2013 set for June 2
The Joint admission Board (JAB) of the IITs has announced the date of the JEE Advance 2013, which will be the final step for admission to IITs, IT-BHU, and ISM Dhanbad. The exam will be held on June 2 next year. The blueprint of the exam has been prepared by IIT Delhi.
Like IIT JEE 2012, the advance exam will also be held in two shifts. Each paper will be of three-hour duration and will include questions from Physics, Chemistry and Maths. The questions will be objective in nature.
The exam will be conducted under the aegis of the IIT system and IITs will only hold academic and administration rights to interfere in the exam, if necessary. Read more
While majority of the states are still sitting on the fence, five states have expressed their willingness to participate in the new nation-wide test system for admission to their engineering colleges. These include Goa, Gujarat, Haryana, Maharashtra, and West Bengal. Uttar Pradesh is in talks with the HRD ministry and is expected to give a nod to the new JEE exam.
Earlier, most of the states had endorsed the proposal of the common entrance test for all engineering colleges in India but they have not yet confirmed their participation in the exam. It is also not clear whether the states would adopt the test from 2013 itself or not. The weightage to be given to class XII board marks by the states has also not been decided yet.
To adopt JEE 2013, Gujarat government has put forward the condition that the question papers for the exam should be available in the regional language too. See details
Amid all this, The Forum for Fairness in Education, along with nine parents, has challenged the new format of JEE 2013 in Bombay High Court. The petition stated that the new JEE is unfair to the students and every student should have a chance to sit in both JEE Mains and JEE Advance exams. It also suggested that the new exam should not be implemented from 2013. The top-20-percentile criteria was said to be ‘arbitrary, discriminative and unreasonable’ by the petitioners. Know more
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