A committee has suggested the JEE Advanced test — the final round of the gruelling process to qualify for the country’s premier Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) — be conducted through mobile phones.
The proposal came from a committee drawn up to reform the Advanced test. At a preliminary stage currently, it was tabled in a recent meeting of the Joint Admission Board (JAB) and will be taken up by the IIT council, the apex decision-making body for the institutes.
Students vying for engineering colleges need to clear the JEE Mains test, before qualifying for the JEE Advanced. Officials introduced the option to take the Mains test online and are looking to extend it to the Advanced exam, in the interest of making logistics and evaluations…
