It’s not just the government or the country which is going through a change. The education sector in India too is witnessing a lot of new developments. In a recent meeting of the Joint Admission Board of IITs, the concerned institutes have reached to a consensus wherein they have agreed to make JEE Advanced completely online from 2020.

The JEE Advanced is conducted for nearly 1.5 lakhs students after they are screened from the JEE Main.

The test also decodes eligibility of candidates to sit for the JEE Advanced. The JEE Main has already gone partly online. Now, it is time for JEE Advanced to take the plunge. The online JEE Advanced will consist of Paper I and Paper II. However, it has to be taken at the same day and at one go. The IITs are also working out on a process to replace the Multiple Choice Question (MCQ) testing format of JEE Advanced. Instead, the IITs are considering a questioning technique which is objective, but drives a student to attempt the whole problem solving exercise and arrive at a certain answer.

The written answer will then be read and finally assessed using sophisticated Optical Character Readers (OCRs). The main objective behind the shift in format is to compel a student to come up with an original answer derived through problem solving. The IITs feel that the existing multiple choice questioning style is helping students to score more marks just by simply applying guess work. The IITs are also attempting to bring in multiple vendors to conduct the JEE Advanced online. Last week, the IITs have also come up with a formula to conduct an online joint counselling of students for admission in the IITs and NITs.

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