14 lakh students take up IIT JEE (Main)
India witnessed a record 14 lakh examinees taking up the Joint Engineering Entrance Main exam and what makes it significant is the change of JEE (Main) format for the first time.
According to Dr Anshu Kataria, Chairman, Aryans Group of Institution, stated that the JEE (Main) conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education was attempted by 11.5 lakh candidates last year and this was the last edition of JEE (Main) conducted in 2011.
The advanced exam will be taken up by the top 1.5 lakh candidates, who make it to the merit list among the 14 lakh examinees. This acts as the gateway for admission to the prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), IIT BHU and Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad.
According to Dr Kataria, all metros saw the offline exam taking place today, and there are four dates given for the computer-based exam to take place. These dates are April 9, 22, 23 and 25, the first day being tomorrow.
This year the JEE (Main) is being held for admissions to BE/B.Tech courses at National Institutes of technology, Delhi technological University and other Central Government-funded technical institutions.
On Sunday the exam was conducted in the offline mode and online will happen starting from tomorrow.
There will be one objective type question paper for the JEE (Main)-2013 (paper I of earlier AIEEE). Subjects covered in the three-hour paper will be physics, chemistry and mathematics.
About 40 per cent weightage will be carried by this year's JEE (Main) merit list and this is suitably normalized to Class 12 or other qualifying exam marks and 60 per cent to performance in the entrance exam.
Before downloading the admit card for the online format, the CBSE had asked the candidates to fill in their roll numbers of class XII exams online.
But Sunday saw students getting their proof of Class XII to the exam hall today as there were many discrepancies seen when students filled their roll numbers online.
Mark sheet of the Class XII was carried to the exam hall by students who appeared for class XII. For those who appeared for class XII exams in 2011 and 2012, but had enrolled for improvement exam in all subjects in 2013, had to take along their admit card given for the improvement exam.
All others were asked to carry their hall tickets given for that exam.
It was all about how will the exams be for students who appeared for the exam today. Satpinder Singh, a student of Aryans stated that there were several students as every year to attempt the exam but the strength was definitely lesser than the last year as this year the exam has two options to be appeared in, offline and the online mode.
"There was excitement, hope, nervousness and anxiety in the air as the students stepped out of the exam centers and what haunts us now is the result," said Maninder Singh, another student of Aryans, who attempted the exam today.
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