IIT JEE & AIEEE 2013 Cancelled - Just One Exam For NIT, IIT, IIITs!

IIT JEE and AIEEE 2013 have been cancelled and replaced by a single entrance exam for all the engineering admissions in India. HRD Minister, Mr. Kapil Sibal announced the shocking news today. The decision to scrap JEE was opposed by all the IITs, but they had to give in.

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Whether cancelling JEE and AIEEE and replacing it with a single entrance exam is a good move - only time will determine. But it'd be interesting to hear your opinion about it. What say you?

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    @pensu-8tNeGU • May 28, 2012

    I think its a good move by government. One reason i can think of is that now students have to prepare for just one exam. Till now we had to prepare separately for JEE and AIEEE, and believe me, those two exams are quite different. You cant crack both of them with same strategy. I wish state level colleges also chip in. In the end of day, everyone is going to do engineering only, then why dont rate them on same scale? Time will only tell how successful this decision is gonna be, but right now it looks like a good idea.

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  • Kaustubh Katdare

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    @thebigk • May 28, 2012

    Having one exam logically makes sense; but including class XII marks isn't a good move, I guess. The state board exams have their own 'awesome' way of grading students and I've been a victim of the state boards. There's no standard marking system. The only way out, which will bring everyone at the same playing level is to have a common exam for all the state boards. But such a system would have its own problem. I'd object to the level of importance given to the XII marks - 50% is HUGE. Now, students will STILL have to prepare for class XII exams and the common entrance exam (CET). Earlier, they could just try for the minimum marks required to qualify for the tests.

    I want to ask whether this system is going to put more burden on students and financial burden on parents. Parents will now have to pay for the private coaching classes for class XII exams and not just JEE/AIEEE. 👎

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    @pensu-8tNeGU • May 28, 2012

    Yeah, including XII standard marks doesnt make sense. People in state board generally get less marks than those of CBSE and ICSE. They should have introduced a common board all over the country. This happens when decision making people are not connected to the root. They just want to change things, whether it makes sense or not, and the people at lower level suffer.😀

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  • Anoop Kumar

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    @anoop-kumar-GDGRCn • Jun 1, 2012

    I don't understand why not to introduce percentile system........

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  • Kaustubh Katdare

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    @thebigk • Jun 1, 2012

    ianoopI don't understand why not to introduce percentile system........

    It'd make sense only when there's just one exam.

    But since the standard of educational institutes isn't the same all over country, it's bit foolish to conduct just 'one' exam to test everyone.

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