With major disruptions to entrance examinations due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, the country’s prominent engineering college, Indian Institute of Technology (IITs) are examining whether they can conduct the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Advanced over 2-3 days instead of just one day.

“IITs are discussing with the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) if the JEE Advanced exams can take place in 2-3 days this year so that social distancing can be easily maintained at the examination centers,” said a source familiar with the matter.

Till now, the JEE Advanced exam has always been scheduled in one day for all aspirants.

In addition, they are in view of having more test centers, the person added.

In July, the HRD Minister announced the new exam dates for JEE Main and JEE Advanced. As per the revised dates, JEE Main is scheduled to be conducted between September 1 to September 6, 2020, and JEE Advanced will be held on September 27, 2020.

The discussions on this are expected to come up in the next Joint Admission Board Meeting that is scheduled to take place this week.

Relaxation

In the previous week, MHRD has declared relaxation in admission to the IITs by not considering Class XII board performance this year.

To take admissions into IITs, apart from qualifying the JEE Advanced exam, the eligibility was to secure either a minimum score of 75% marks in class XII Board exams or rank among the top 20 percentile in their qualifying entrance examinations.

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