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The JEE conundrum

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Title The JEE conundrum
 
Creator MEHRA, A
 
Subject Coaching classes
entrance and board examinations
normalization of marks
stress on children
undergraduate programmes
 
Description The Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) conducted by the Indian Institute of Technology (IITs) is under review again. The reasons for this review have to do with the stress that children have to undergo in appearing for multiple entrance examinations and the impact of coaching classes (with the consequent neglect of school attendance and studies). While these issues are real and demand urgent solutions, the ideas put forward by the Ramasami Committee - having a single, all-India examination, and including class XII board examination marks, after due 'normalization', for admitting students to undergraduate science/engineering programmes - are based on questionable premises and superficial analysis, and, if implemented, may well cause more misery than solve the above-mentioned problems. In view of the complexity of the problem, and the constraints imposed by the huge scarcity of 'good' educational opportunities, finding workable and reasonable solutions is difficult. Re-design of the engineering entrance examination system merits a full discussion by the academic community at large and should not be decided by a committee of few people.
 
Publisher INDIAN ACAD SCIENCES
 
Date 2014-10-15T15:51:58Z
2014-10-15T15:51:58Z
2012
 
Type Article
 
Identifier CURRENT SCIENCE, 103(1)29-36
http://dspace.library.iitb.ac.in/jspui/handle/100/15200
 
Language en