IIT JEE (Advance) To Go Completely Online From 2018

Entrance to the premier engineering colleges-Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) will completely go online from 2018. In a meeting held at Indian Institute of Technology Madras on August 2017, the Joint Admission Board (JAB), it was decided that from next year the Joint Entrance Examination (Advanced) will be conducted online. JAB members said they were optimistic that the online version of the JEE Advanced will ensure that there is greater accuracy and transparency in the test. The decision was taken by the Join Admission Board who felt online exams would reduce printing mistakes in the question paper.

HIGHLIGHTS

• Candidates in 2018 are likely to continue to have the option of taking either the online or written version of the JEE (Mains).
• JAB members said they were optimistic that the online version of the JEE Advanced will ensure that there is greater accuracy and transparency in the test.
• The decision was taken by the Join Admission Board who felt online exams would reduce printing mistakes in the question paper.
• In the online mode, students will take up the examination at designated centers where they need to answer the questions on a computer instead of using pen and paper.

JEE Advanced exam To Go Online | Know Why

• Avoiding the paper leaks, logistics issues encountered followed by easier execution in conducting the JEE Advanced exam.
• The added advantage received via the decision includes greater transparency in the system and fair judgment.
• The board has even urged the schools to introduce computer usage by the candidates to make them accustomed to the online exam mode & pattern for the JEE Advanced exam 2018.

Well, though such decisions do cause havoc in the minds of students who have to prepare for the JEE exam by conventional approaches, the move of conducting JEE Advanced exam in online mode eventually runs in the interest of aspirants of the exam.