From the next academic year, the Joint Engineering Examination (Advanced) will be an online test. The decision to this effect was taken at a meeting of the Joint Admission Board of the Indian Institutes of Technology on Sunday.
A release said, “The Apex Body for conduct of JEE (Advanced), at its meeting today (August 20, 2017), has decided that JEE (Adv) will be conducted in online mode from 2018. Further information regarding the examination will be provided by the JAB in due course.”
Until this year, the JEE (Adv) was a printed OMR sheet examination.
Bhaskar Ramamurthi, IIT-M’s director and chairman of the Joint Admission Board (JAB) 2017 said, “Now we are going online like the GATE (Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering). The test would be held for all the two lakh candidates together. We were not confident until now but we now have enough capacity to hold it simultaneously.”
