Shiksha Samachar: AIEEE Plans to go online in 2011

AIEEE Plans to go online in 2011
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siteadmin on 23/11/2010 12:43:00

AIEEE forms a committee to explore all the various possibility and steps needed
to make AIEEE examination online

The government has set up a committee of National Institute of Technology (NIT)
directors to explore the possibility of making the AIEEE exam online, in
addition to the regular pen and paper test. The committee will submit its report
by January 2010.
The committee will also deliberate on giving Class XII board exam marks
weightage during the entrance exam. This came up after NIT directors said that
the proliferation of coaching institutes was skewing the pattern of entrants
into NITs.
Nearly 10 lakh students appeared for AIEEE for roughly 24,000 seats in
engineering colleges across the country. This includes NITs, state engineering
colleges, the Indian Institutes of Information Technology (IIITs) and deemed and
central universities. The number of aspirants is expected to increase
significantly over the next few years and the NIT council feels that an online
test would facilitate the process.