It is accepted unarguably that IIT JEE (Indian Institute of Technology - Joint Entrance Examination) is one of the toughest examinations in the entire world. The acceptance rate used to be 1 in 100 (2,000 seat for 2,00,000 participants) although, lately, they are working on doubling the seats. Last time I found out, the number of seats had grown to 3000 and they were still working on increasing it. And the quality of questions are so high that one just need to score around 35-40% (or even less) to make it to one of the IITs.
JEE started as just a single exam with subjective and objective questions intermingled in the question paper but they changed it some 6 years back with a screening exam followed by the main exam for those who cleared the former. It, definitely, gave some tough times to the aspirants and was cause of many a cases of depression / discouragement for those not being able to clear the screening test. The following news is a good one as IITs have decided to merge the two in one. An excerpt:
It’s celebration time for IIT aspirants. The hard-to-crack entrance examination, IIT-JEE , just got simpler. Beginning ’06, the two-step entrance — screening and main — examination will be replaced by a single exam. Just so that students take their board exams seriously, a first class in their class twelve board exams will be mandatory to appear for the IIT-JEE. Moreover candidates will be allowed only two attempts at the IIT-JEE.
I like this pattern because of following reasons:
1. Just having 1 exam instead of 2 (screening and main)
2. Minimum marks in the school-leaving exam (class 12th) is 60% now - this will force people to take up their school exams a bit more seriously.
3. Only 2 attempts for the JEE: Excellent step. There is no point in somebody wasting a lot of time for just 1 exam.
4. Somebody who is already in IIT can’t take up the exam again: Again a good step. If you don’t want to join a course / institute and are doing it just for another year of preparation, don’t waste the seat that another person will be more than glad to have.
Reasons that I don’t like this pattern for:
1. Simplifying the syllabus / paper and asking only objective questions: I have always been in favor of the IIT entrance question papers to be tough. Making the question papers / syllabus easy will only test the speed and accuracy (great!) of the person and not the real intellect / analytical skills. The idea of IIT, to begin with, was always to produce more scientists than engineers and steps like this will only weaken the implementation of that idea.
Lastly, they will re-evaluate the entire thing after JEE ‘06 - which can only be a good thing. I will be eager to know what others think about this.
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September 13, 2005 at 7:13 pm
Im also against the simplification of JEE, an objective paper cant be the right parameter to judge candidates skill.
September 13, 2005 at 9:33 pm
This is just one of the broad based changes that the government is bringing about in the education system at the school level, making the class 10 board exams optional being one of them. I am in favor of this step, cause millions of students slog out for 2 years just to crack this exam and there is a lot of tension and anxiety associated with it. i know people who wated 2-3 years trying to crack JEE. Agreed that IIT’s are the best, but 2 years of your life is too much time.
September 13, 2005 at 11:21 pm
One more problem is that — what about the JEE aspirants who have passed out of schools in 2003 or before and have already decided in favour of making an attempt again i.e. for JEE2006.
I guess the JEE organizing committee must allow such aspirants to take the exam this year else their whole year would be wasted.
September 15, 2005 at 12:42 pm
Aayush, I don’t think that this policy applies for this year. These guys will still be allowed to take the exam this year but not from next year onwards.
Kirti, agree with you on most of the points. But do you really think 2 year is a lot of time - if you do see that slogging for those 2 years can get you something that you really want? I think 2 years is a small time - and this applies not only to getting admission in the IITs but for a lot of other things in life too.
September 16, 2005 at 8:27 pm
SIMPLE PAPERS
- I don’t think IIT is aiming at a simple paper for JEE 2006. Its the media which is interpreting it seeing the trend over the last few years.
- I think a passage with Objective Questions following it can test a students analytical skills better which are much more important than the problem solving ability being tested in the present JEE papers.
- Also I dont know but the board which prepares the papers can definitely have more flexibility in terms of syllabus which is very rigid for JEE presently, a fact on which many coaching centres are thriving.
September 17, 2005 at 5:57 am
Hi,
I am an ex-IITan from the 80s. Can tell you that the JEE we took at that time was correlated to the type of questions on tests and quizzes we got from our professors during the four years at IIT. The JEE tested your dynamic creative and logical processing ability under stress because the answers were not given to you as in a multiple choice format. You had to “form” the answer.
An objective-test oriented JEE would indeed test the person’s ability to focus on options and eliminate possibilities. This ability is only one tool you need to perform engineering and managerial tasks efficiently and quickly. As you go higher in the corporate ladder, skills like decision making under uncertainty and risk, ability to form views, take positions on issues and form cogent arguments matter a lot. In advanced technical work creative ability is critical. I dont know how the new JEE plans to test that.
The SSC/HSC board exams required pure replication of known (via studying hard) facts and logical constructs so did not really test creative or dynamic logical processing ability. You could program your brain to “know” certain logical paths and follow them to crack the exam.
September 20, 2005 at 4:52 pm
introduction of 2 attempt system is great,but simplification of question paper rarely makes sense,as IITs are the best and it deserves the brainchild not just a spedster
October 1, 2005 at 7:52 pm
not going to judge the ability ….objective means….luck
October 1, 2005 at 7:54 pm
it is too baad change.objective means …luck
October 15, 2005 at 12:37 pm
hi
im one of those who r desperately trying for iit.
i guess its good that the iit exams are simplified,because there are lots of people i know who fail to fare well in tough exams like iit just because of the tension the exams creating.
afterall the basic idea of iit is a chase for the talented.
October 16, 2005 at 10:59 am
jee is niw essay for student
October 16, 2005 at 11:40 am
Gauthamy, I think it’s not the toughness of the paper that creates the tension - but the fact that there is a lot of competition AND the fact that the result makes a HUGE difference in one’s career.
Pallavi - jee is a new essay? Not sure what do you mean here!
October 24, 2005 at 2:34 pm
JEE is definitely a tough proposition but there are equally tough exams. Has anyone sat for the UK Engineering Council exams??? It is tougher. The overall pass percentage there is 9 to 12% on a global level.
November 13, 2005 at 10:03 pm
Hi,
I dont like the decision made be the IIT’s to give only 2 attempts.
What would be the situation of the IIT aspirants who have made their mind to start the preparations only after their board exams?
December 17, 2005 at 6:02 pm
IIT JEE IS A EXAM WHICH TESTS ALL TYPES OF TALENTS
OF STUDENT
December 18, 2005 at 1:22 pm
I dont think there will be any change in the difficulty level of JEE because you have to selet 3500 intelligent students from 250000 aspirants so paper has to be intelligent.No doubt in that.But I didn’t like that there will be only on exam which will be of objective questions.There are chances of getting the admition just by luck.In such competative exams even 1 mark can change your future.
February 3, 2006 at 4:58 pm
I feel that previous pattern is more lucid manner for selection of cream of the cream from student because iitians are backbone of this institute and they known for there quality product if there is a loop hole at the selection procedure ie if the foundation is weak then how we consider for the building.
March 12, 2006 at 8:42 pm
i want to be a engineer
March 17, 2006 at 6:49 pm
iit is defenitely not setting an easy paper…..its going to take all of u aback…ppl..who might be expecting a relatively easier one…be thorough with theory and applications….and…knw one thing…its all about being smart that day!!! besta luck
March 24, 2006 at 10:30 am
Come off it guys, iit-jee is a tough exam no doubt about that. Has anyone looked into the lives of all the iitians since the inception of these institutes. Most have done well (mainly because of the goodwill), but there are scores who are a eyesore. Engineering is tough in real life too. It is not for the weak hearted.
The last decade has seen great strides in literally every field in India. We need engineers, good hard working engineers, we need ones who to a large extent work with their own hands. This basic engineering ability has to be imbibed by every engineer if we have to make further strides. Let all aspirants, including myself, keep this in mind before taking up the so called tough exam which is just round the corner. All the best.
April 7, 2006 at 7:18 pm
whats question pattern assertion and reasoning or passage type if anyone can tell it please mail me on akhileshrawal@yahoo.com your one mail can make someones life
April 15, 2006 at 6:39 pm
The iit entrance examination held on the 9th april was against the ethics of what was prescribed in the jee format. the format said that only objective questions would be asked with the deletion of lengthy subjective questions . then how come 6 marks questions of mains type were asked .in totality 24 marks in chemistry and maths and 18 marks in physics.this is a serious issue and probably against the rules of the supposedly changed norms. i feel that the people concerned with such loop hole should ponder over it and then probably think of setting any cut off marks whatsoever!
April 21, 2006 at 8:06 am
Well, the new rules and pattern are going to be very useful for the cbse students and with the two year rule, the batch of this year will be the seniormost batch next year. So, it will be quiet easy for this batch to crack the jee2007.
May 22, 2006 at 10:54 am
simplifying the paper is not a right step certainly.let the letters “IIT JEE” mean something. anyway going through the paper it was not at all simple but tougher than the previous ones…
May 22, 2006 at 10:58 am
hoe are the questions asked in BITSAT THIS YEAR.THEIR DIFFICULTY LEVEL, STANDARD AND WHAT TO LAY STREE ON…..IF ANYONE HAS ALREADY APPEARED IN THE EXAMINATION…PLEASE MAIL ME AT goddy_mohan2005@yahoo.co.in
May 22, 2006 at 11:00 am
changes are necessary…
June 9, 2006 at 11:27 am
Well this time the course is balanced
between 11th and 12th of cbse board
therefore it will be easy for students
to crack examinations
June 10, 2006 at 2:37 am
changing the format is not the solution for the stess problem of students, if u have to change somthing then u have to do it at the school level . IITJEE means somthing and let it be somthing special.
July 18, 2006 at 8:23 pm
will someone please tell me the cut off marks on each subject,
for the iit jee 2207?
please reply to i_am_co2ol_06@yahoo.com
pleaseeee
August 11, 2006 at 6:03 am
i am no much interested in the changes made in iit-jee pattern. though its easier but the real thing is its old intellactual importance which may be lost by such changes.
September 8, 2006 at 6:49 pm
please tell me the cut off marks of iit jee 2006.
September 8, 2006 at 7:05 pm
in iit jee ,mains exam must be taken because it checks our writing skills
September 8, 2006 at 7:09 pm
iit is a true exam,it checks our true talent
December 13, 2006 at 4:17 pm
i need previous IIT-JEE exam papers…….
March 2, 2007 at 6:06 pm
will you tell me what will the board do to a person who is caught with a paper in his handerchief which had diagrams it was not done purposefully while hsc board exams.please reply me at luckyfarhaan786@gmail.com
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