LUCKNOW : The Joint Entrance Examination for
admission to the 15 Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs)
will be held on April 10 and the pattern of the test
will remain unchanged, the Joint Admission Board decided
on August 21.
The board met at IIT Kanpur and decided to stick to the
current pattern for 2011 as the panel of IIT directors
led by Damodar Acharya set up to revamp the system, had
not yet submitted its report.
IIT Kanpur will be in charge of JEE 2011.
The IIT-JEE was in the news this year for misleading
instructions. Human Resource Development Minister Kapil
Sibal had to intervene and the Joint Admission Board had
to devise a special formula to evaluate the papers.
“Normally, our questions are foolproof. This year there
were certain problems because of printing errors. We
have learnt from our mistakes and such mistakes will not
be repeated,” an IIT director said.
A committee headed by IIT Kharagpur director Damodar
Acharya is preparing a report on the new evaluation
system, which plans to give more importance to Class XII
board marks.
“The new format has not yet been finalised by the
committee. After the committee submits its report, the
government will take a decision on it. Maybe, the new
system will be effective from 2012,” the director said.
This year, about four lakh students had taken the test
for a shot at the 10,000 seats the IITs offer.
