Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Mock IIT-JEE test will be available from January second week

The aspirants planning to attempt first single exam for getting admission in the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology (IITs) other engineering colleges in April will get an opportunity to take part in mock tests as part of an effort by the government and the IITs to know the new exam pattern.

Once the registration process will be completed in the mid of December, students will be allowed to make changes in their application form. Vineet Joshi, chairman of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), said, the mock test will be available for students for almost three months, beginning in the second week of January, students can attempt these tests.

He said, “This will clear the doubts in the minds of students and make them aware of the JEE pattern in its first edition.”

The government’s much awaited plan of conducting single entrance test for all engineering institutes of the country will be actualized in coming April. The main motive behind introducing this exam was to reduce the stress of aspirants and to create uniformity for all state and government aided engineering colleges.

For selection to the prestigious IITs, students who will rank among the top 150,000 in the entrance test get an opportunity to appear in the final exam. Further, to qualify in the exam they need to be listed in the top 20 percentile of their respective school board exams.

Joshi said as this is national level test and students from all over the country will appear in this exam, they need to have a “look and feel of computer-based examination in a simulated environment.” There will be more than one sample test available for students to practice.

Joshi said, “Based on the feedback, we have now decided that sometime in January, we will open a window for registered candidates to make suitable correction on their forms in a variety of issues like their personal details, test-taking city, preference for centre, etc.”

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