Covid-19: Will JEE Main April 2020 be postponed again?

Will JEE Main 2020 April session be postponed again due to COVID-19 spread? Read what students have requested to the HRD Minister.

Currently, the Coronavirus spread in the country is terrible and affecting the entrance exams in the country badly. If the situation persists, the JEE Main 2020 April exam may get postponed again. Another thing that favours the above statement is that the official twitter handles of the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) and the HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ have received requests from several students to postpone the engineering entrance exam again.

‘#postponeJEE’ is trending on twitter and under it, all the students have tweeted to the MHRD and the HRD Minister to postpone JEE Main 2020 April exam. They have cited different reasons for their requests of which mostly are related to the current adverse situation of the COVID-19 outbreak in the country.

Few of the students tweeted that conducting the exam in July would risk thousands of life too including students and their families as well. Students also requested the authorities through social media to not conduct the exam until the number of Coronavirus cases in India becomes zero. Many students also said that they are unable to concentrate on their studies due to the chaotic situation and fear of getting affected by the virus during the exam.

All the exam authorities have rescheduled all the entrance tests, semester exams and other internal exams due to the growing cases of COVID-19. The JEE Main 2020 April exam is also among such exams. The JEE Main 2020 April exam was earlier scheduled in April but now it will be conducted from July 18 to 23.

The National Testing Agency (NTA) made available the JEE Main application form for all the candidates again from May 19 to 24, 2020. The JEE Main 2020 admit card for April session is also scheduled to be released 15 days prior to the exam i.e. by July 4, 2020, and JEE Main 2020 result announcement date is yet to be declared by the authority.

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