IIT directors to meet next month to review IIT-JEE

Updated on: Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Directors of all the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) would hold a meeting next month to discuss the modifications that can be made to the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) so as to avoid embarrassing errors that had been reported in the JEE-2010.

An IIT director said that there have been several human-made errors in the IIT-JEE that cannot be justified. "The process of the setting up of the paper needs to be more streamlined so that errors can be detected in the initial phases. The traditional minutes approval process is an efficient one and should be implemented," he said.

He added that during the meeting of the IIT directors from all over India, they would also discuss how to accommodate the students who had been allocated the wrong seats.

There had been several errors that had been reported in the IIT-JEE this year. Apart from printing errors, these included incorrect information on subject headings in both the English as well as the Hindi versions of the paper and wrong instructions.

Also, 52 undergraduate students, who had cleared the IIT-Joint Entrance Examination (IIT-JEE) and had been allotted seats at the IITs, were told a day before they were to submit their course fees that their seats had been cancelled. The students were set to study architecture and design courses at the institutes.

According to IIT authorities, the move was taken as these students had not cleared a separate examination for architecture and design, the Architecture/Design Aptitude Test. They said that the selection of these students to the B.Arch and B.Des courses was inadvertent and an error.

IIT directors to meet next month to review IIT-JEE

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