The entrance examination for the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) will go completely online from 2018, the Joint Admission Board (JAB) decided on Sunday.
The JAB, which is the policy-making body on IIT admissions, took the decision at a meeting in Chennai.
In a statement, Director, IIT-Madras, and Chairman JAB 2017, Prof Bhaskar Ramamurthi said, “It has been decided that the JEE (Advanced) will be conducted in online mode from 2018 onwards. Further information regarding the examination will be provided by the JAB in due course.”
The HRD Ministry had earlier introduced the option of taking the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE)-Mains online.
The JEE-Mains is the entrance examination for admission to engineering courses offered…
