The <keyword id="2834729" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Joint-Seat-Allocation-Authority">Joint Seat Allocation Authority</keyword> is conducting counselling for <keyword id="7767223" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="josaa-2019">JOSAA 2019</keyword>. This is for the students who have appeared for the JEE Mains to register for a seat at NITs while the students who have qualified JEE Advanced examination are eligible for the seat allocation in any of the IITs. The students can register for the Joint Seat Allocation Authority on the official website josaa.nic.in and fill in their choices. The counselling process will commence from today i.e. 16 June and will go on till 25 June 2019. The process will be conducted 7 rounds including 2 mock sessions. While the registrations for AAT (architecture aptitude test) will begin from 21 June 2019. The candidates are required to fill in the choice of colleges in a decreasing order of their preference. However, there is no bar on the number of choices. The students need to lock their choices to save the college preference. In case a student wants to withdraw a seat, he/she can report it until the sixth round of counselling. The Joint Seat Allocation Authority has added 107 new institutions to the process this year.

JOSAA 2019: The Joint Seat Allocation Authority will begin the counselling today, visit @josaa.nic.in to register

<img class="gwt-Image" src="/photo/49179827.cms" /> A proposal by the <keyword id="67810" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="NIT">NIT</keyword> council’s standing committee will be taken up by the <keyword id="203622" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="IIT-Council">IIT council</keyword> next week. The proposal suggests that the admission of students to both <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=IIT">IITs </a>and <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/Students-ready-to-choose-private-colleges-and-NITs-but-not-the-new-IITs/articleshow/48017623.cms">NITs </a>should be through a single entrance exam – the <keyword id="1126172" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="JEE-Advanced">JEE Advanced</keyword>. 
 
The NIT council will take up the proposal at its meeting on 1st October while the <keyword id="6354859" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="IIT">IIT</keyword> council –the apex body that coordinates between IITs and the <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=HRD+ministry">HRD ministry</a> – will discuss the matter at its meeting scheduled for 6th October. 
 
If reports are to be believed, <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=Smriti+Irani">Smriti </a><a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=Smriti+Irani">Irani</a>-led <keyword id="51613" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="hrd-ministry">HRD ministry</keyword> favours the proposal of single examination, however, the move is expected to trigger a controversy in the IIT system. 
 
IITs have been resisting any such moves to grant NITs parity but the HRD ministry had to take a call and make IITs agree to a joint counselling with NITs. 
 
Officials, requesting anonymity, informed Economic Times, "IITs and NITs draw from the same pool of students. IITs already draw the best of students through the JEE Advanced which has a reasonably high difficulty level. If the NITs — which are also excellent engineering institutes — are allowed to draw from that pool, the overall quality will improve. The aim is one exam, one ranking system and one counselling for both IITs and NITs." 
 
If the proposal gets a nod by the council, the JEE Advanced examination will be picking up around 34,000 candidates. Currently, it selects about 10,000 students for all the 16 branches of the IITs across India. 
 The Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) alone determines admissions to prestigious IITs. While it was the All India Engineering Entrance Examination (<keyword id="50422" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="AIEEE">AIEEE</keyword>) that earlier determined admissions to the National Institutes of Technology (NITs) and all other engineering colleges, the format was changed when <keyword id="30182" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Kapil-Sibal">Kapil Sibal</keyword> was HRD minister in UPA-II. 
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(Eds: Updating with additional details) New Delhi, May 9 () Evaluation for Class 10, 12 board exams will be done by teachers at their homes and 3,000 schools have been identified as exam centres to deliver the answer sheets to them, Union HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank' said on Saturday.The move comes following a nod by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) to resume the evaluation work by having the exam centres deliver the answer sheets to the evaluators' homes.The transportation of answer sheets, however, will be allowed in areas other than containment zones.The minister said 1.5 crore answer sheets of already conducted Class 10, 12 exams will be delivered to the teachers. "Three thousand CBSE-affiliated schools have been identified as assessment centres across India and special permission will be granted to these schools for the limited purpose of evaluation. Nearly 1.5 crore answer sheets of already conducted exams will be delivered at the evaluators homes and evaluation will begin tomorrow. We will be able to complete the process in 50 days," he added.As per MHA guidelines, all 16 regional offices of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) can function without restrictions in orange and green zones and with limited restrictions in red zones.The evaluation of the answer sheets has been delayed due to a nationwide lockdown imposed to contain the coronavirus outbreak. The pending board exams will be held from July 1 to 15 in 29 subjects crucial for promotion and admission to higher educational institutions.The HRD minister clarified that the results would be declared only after the remaining exams have been conducted in July.The results for the 29 Class 12 exams will most likely be announced by August-end, before the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) declare the merit list for JEE-Advanced.The IIT counselling process hinges on when CBSE and respective state boards announce results for the Class 12 board exams. To seek admission to one of the IITs, aspirants who have cleared JEE-Advanced should also have scored at least 75 per cent marks in their board exams. JEE-Advanced has been scheduled on August 23.JEE-Mains, which is also considered as a qualifying exam for JEE-Advanced, is scheduled from July 18-23, while NEET is scheduled on July 26. GJS IJTIJT

COVID-19 lockdown: Evaluation for CBSE Class 10, 12 board exams to be done at home by teachers

(Eds: Updating with additional details ) New Delhi, May 8 () Pending Class 10 and 12 CBSE exams, which were postponed due to the COVID-19-induced lockdown, will be conducted from July 1 to 15, Union Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank' announced on Friday.The schedule has been decided in order to ensure that the board exams are completed before competitive examinations such as engineering entrance JEE-Mains, which is scheduled from July 18-23, and medical entrance exam NEET, which is scheduled on July 26.The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has not yet notified the exam schedule. The board is also yet to announce the modalities for assessment of the exams which will not be conducted as well as guidelines for examination centres to ensure social distancing."The students have been impatiently waiting for the schedule for pending exams. It has been decided today that the exams will be conducted from July 1 to 15," Nishank said. While class 12 exams will be conducted across the country, the class 10 exams are only pending in North East Delhi where they were affected due to the law and order situation. The board had last month announced that it will only conduct pending exams in 29 subjects which are crucial for promotion and admission to higher educational institutions.Universities and schools across the country have been closed and exams postponed since March 16 when the Centre announced a countrywide classroom shutdown as one of the measures to contain the COVID-19 outbreak. Later, a nationwide lockdown was announced on March 24, which has now been extended till May 17."The board was not able to conduct exams for class 10 and 12 on eight examination days due to the COVID-19 outbreak. Further, due to the law and order situation in North East Delhi, the board was not able to conduct exams on four examination days, while a very small number of students from and around this district were not able to appear in exams on six days," a senior CBSE official said. "A detailed schedule is expected to be announced by next week," the official said, adding the board is also working on resuming the evaluation of answer scripts, which was stopped in March due to the nationwide lockdown. The HRD minister had last month also directed that evaluation be started for the already conducted board exams and appealed states to facilitate the same.One of the options being considered is to deliver the answer scripts to the examiners at home, however, no final decision has been announced yet.The results for the 29 Class 12 exams will most likely be announced by August-end, before the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) declare the merit list for JEE Advanced.The IIT Counselling process hinges on when CBSE and respective state boards announce results for the class 12 board exams. To seek admission to one of the IITs, aspirants who have cleared JEE Advanced should have also secured at least 75 per cent marks in their board exams. JEE-Advanced has been scheduled on August 23. GJS GJS ANBANB

COVID-19 lockdown: Pending class 10, 12 CBSE exams to be held from July 1-15, says HRD minister

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	The human resource development (HRD) ministry will now focus not on the quantity but on the quality of the students hired in the country’s top engineering schools.
 

	The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and the National Institutes of Technology (NITs) and the companies that hire their graduates have long been complaining that the current system is selecting many who're being heavily tutored in cram schools and not necessarily the most talented.
 To take the ministry's strategy forward, a committee has been constituted following several rounds of deliberations earlier this month by the <keyword id="6354859" type="COMPANY" weightage="100" keywordseo="IIT">IIT</keyword> Council and the <keyword id="67810" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="100" keywordseo="NIT">NIT</keyword> Council. The committee's terms of reference, which have been reviewed by ET, propose a single admission test and call for a reduction in exam stress levels and the dependence on coaching classes. 

	The aim is to "reduce exam pressure" and check "coaching dependence... without diluting testing quality", according to the terms of reference.
 

	In line with this, the committee has been tasked with shortening the time the process takes from the current three months between the Joint Entrance Exam (JEE) and the declaration of results. It has also been asked to "reform counselling for IITs, NITs, IISERs (Indian Institutes of Science Education &amp; Research)" with a single web site to ensure "least difficulty" for students.
 

	At a recent meeting of the IIT and NIT councils, the HRD ministry sought to put the focus on students' interests. It also called for handholding of academically weaker students by mentors among seniors and a grievance redressal cell for students at the NIT Council level. The IITs, NITs and IISERs are all centrally funded. The JEE currently consists of two parts for most aspirants — the Main and the Advanced.
 Former HRD minister <keyword id="30182" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Kapil-Sibal">Kapil Sibal</keyword> had persuaded the country's premier engineering schools to accord a 40% weight to Class 12 exams to try and relax the stranglehold of coaching centres and ensure that students pay attention to the school curriculum. 

	The committee, which is supposed to submit its report by November 1, will be headed by Ashok Mishra, chairperson of IIT-Roorkee. Other members are former IIT-Madras Director Prof Anant, Defence Research and Development Organisation scientist Tessy Thomas, IIT-Kharagpur Chairperson Pavan Goenka and Indian Institute of Information Technology Guwahati Mentor Director Gautam Barua.
 

	The JEE is considered one of the toughest admission tests with a high level of difficulty, forcing students to resort to intensive coaching modules.
 

	"The problems of exam pressure and coaching influence on IIT admissions have been there for years now and there are no easy answers even when we know these have to be addressed," the person said on condition of anonymity.

	 
	 
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