On June 27, IIT Council meeting, IIT council agreed on a
compromised formula for admission to IIT. As per this formula now there will be
a two-tier process for admission ton IITs, JEE Main + JEE Advanced, with an
eligibility criteria of top 20 percentile in XII board. In this meeting the
format of JEE Main and JEE Advanced was not discussed.
Most probably JEE Main format will be same as AIEEE. IITs will decide the format of JEE Advanced, IITs want to go back to the subjective format of testing for JEE, instead of the current multiple-choice questions (MCQ) system.
A senior faculty member from IIT-Bombay told – “The senates of all the IITs were in favour of a subjective format test. Our initial demand was to have a rigorous test only for the top 50,000 students.” But now number of students has been increased to 1.5 lakh, a subjective test will need professors to evaluate the answers manually. Since 1.5 lakh is a huge number, we will have to discuss the matter in the senate, he added.
“All details of JEE-Advanced will be discussed in Joint Admission Board meeting in August,” IIT-B director Devang Khakhar said.
Another faculty member said a subjective test could ensure better quality of students to the premier engineering institutes. “It will answer the raging debate about the drop in the quality of IITians. Most of the times, in MCQ format, students get the right answer by smartly eliminating the wrong choices. Students should be able to solve the questions on a standalone basis. Only then they could be judged on their performances. But we will have to look at the logistics to conduct the subjective test for numbers as big as 1.5 lakh.”
Most probably JEE Main format will be same as AIEEE. IITs will decide the format of JEE Advanced, IITs want to go back to the subjective format of testing for JEE, instead of the current multiple-choice questions (MCQ) system.
A senior faculty member from IIT-Bombay told – “The senates of all the IITs were in favour of a subjective format test. Our initial demand was to have a rigorous test only for the top 50,000 students.” But now number of students has been increased to 1.5 lakh, a subjective test will need professors to evaluate the answers manually. Since 1.5 lakh is a huge number, we will have to discuss the matter in the senate, he added.
“All details of JEE-Advanced will be discussed in Joint Admission Board meeting in August,” IIT-B director Devang Khakhar said.
Another faculty member said a subjective test could ensure better quality of students to the premier engineering institutes. “It will answer the raging debate about the drop in the quality of IITians. Most of the times, in MCQ format, students get the right answer by smartly eliminating the wrong choices. Students should be able to solve the questions on a standalone basis. Only then they could be judged on their performances. But we will have to look at the logistics to conduct the subjective test for numbers as big as 1.5 lakh.”
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