With more than 1.3 million take JEE Main examination, only 2 lakh students qualify for the JEE Advanced test. A proposal to conduct JEE Advanced test through mobile phones was tabled in a recent meeting of the Joint Admission Board (JAB).
(Read: JEE Main 2017: Results, AIR to be released on this date at jeemain.nic.in)
As of now, this proposal is at a preliminary stage as it will be soon taken up by the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) council, the apex decision-making body for the institutes.
As reported by HT, 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 evaluation easier.
Here’s what the senior official said:
While speaking about the…
