Single Entrance Test for IIT

Updated on: Saturday, October 24, 2015

While expert committee planning to establish 'one exam, one rank, one counselling' for admissions in engineering institutes like IIT/NITs/IISERs and other, Ministry of Human Resource Development is trying to clear the way for the making it reality. The committee is due giving the report its report in first week of November which was decided in the IIT Council meet earlier this month.

According to a report published by The Times of India, the ministry is trying to get IITs for conducting the single entrance test so that the quality does not deteriorate. The effort is also to create an exam paper where there are right balance of questions which are both knowledge based and analytical so that there are lesser stress on the students.

The biggest reason for creating the a single entrance test is to stop the time taking procedure which puts stress on IIT aspiring students. Moreover, the initiative is likely to avoid the mushrooming IIT coaching industries that are putting huge financial pressure on students and parents due to multiple examination patterns. The students giving engineering entrance test now undergo two kinds of coaching one for NIT and other engineering colleges and advanced coaching for IIT.

Earlier on October 6, a council meeting headed by Smriti Irani had decided that a core committee will study and plan the proposal to hold single entrance test for IIT. The recommendations for single entrance test are likely to be put in place by the first week of November. According to the proposal made by IIT council, the admission procedure for IIT were 'time- taking' and 'cumbersome' and did not leave much time for institutes to conduct enough number of counselling sessions.

The IIT aspirants, currently, need to give two-tierentrance tests namely, JEE Mains followed by JEE Advanced to get admission in IIT. Pitching the National Institute of Technology (NIT) admission procedure, IIT asked for single entrance test for admissions. For NIT, clearing only JEE Mains is required for admissions.

 

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