IIT Entrance Exam likely to be conducted Completely Online from 2018

In order to ease up the evaluation process easier, the IITs will be organising their entrance exam completely in online mode. The Joint Admission Board (JAB) informed on Sunday, August 20, 2017, that a completely online exam process will be introduced to simplify the logistics.

In a meeting held in Chennai, the JAB – policy-making body of IIT admissions – decided that the entrance exam will be conducted completely in online mode. After the process is successfully implemented, IIT aspirants will take the exam in computer mode instead of pen paper mode.

Currently, the IITs use OMR sheets for the entrance exams that have to be manually filled by the applicants and are further evaluated by machines to get the results.

Prof Bhaskar Ramamurthi, Director of IIT-Madras and Chairman of JAB said that after the meeting it was decided that JEE Advanced will be conducted in online mode from 2018 onwards. Other details regarding the exam will be provided by JAB in due course, the Director added.

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The HRD Ministry also thought on the same lines and took the initiative to conduct the JEE Main exam online. Admission to IITs, NITs and many other centrally and state funded engineering colleges is done on the basis of the JEE Main exam.

The prospect of making JEE exam online was being discussed from the past few years. A member of JAB said that it was important to develop the infrastructure before launching the exam in online mode.

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Over 13 lakh students appeared for JEE-Mains in 2017. Fewer than 10 percent of these students opted for the exam in online mode.