CBSE to declare IIT-JEE Main 2018 results on April 30 afternoon

The results for the Indian Institutes of Technology-Joint Entrance Exam (IIT-JEE) Main 2018 will be announced today on April 30 by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE). Around fourteen lakh students who appeared for the IIT-JEE Main 2018 online and offline examination can check their results for both JEE Main which are expected to be declared late afternoon today on the official websites - jeemain.nic.in, cbseresults.nic.in or results.nic.in

The future of these engineering aspirants who have appeared for the exam on April 8 (offline) and April 15 will be decided after CBSE releases the result.

The scores of candidates -- All India and category ranks -- obtained will be displayed. The rank card can also be downloaded by candidates for admission purposes.

How and where to check your IIT JEE Main result

• CBSE announces the result at jeemain.nic.in and cbseresults.nic.in.
• To check the result, you have to log in and enter your JEE Main roll number and date of birth.
• The result which is displayed on the screen can be downloaded as the rank card.
• Use the option to print the rank card. It is advised to take a copy.
• It is also better to thoroughly check all details mentioned on the rank card.

How to confirm if you qualified for JEE Advanced or not? (IIT JEE Advanced 2018)

The JEE main is conducted every year for admission to various engineering and architecture courses in NITs, IITs and other CFTIs across the country. The exam is also an entrance examination for JEE Advanced.

The candidates who clear the JEE Main 2018 will be considered qualified for appearing in JEE Advanced 2018 examination. The JEE Advanced examination is conducted for admission to IITs.

The CBSE Board will also release the JEE main 2018 result along with the mark on - cbseresults.nic.in and results.nic.in.

Since JEE Main is the screening test for JEE Advanced, the top 2,24,000 candidates who successfully clear it must seriously look into preparing for JEE Advanced 2018.

CBSE will announce the JEE Main cutoff 2018 which will specify the scores required to be eligible to apply and appear for JEE Advanced 2018 which will be held on May 20 .

You can fill the JEE Advanced application form 2018 between May 2 and May 7.

Eligibility for NITs, IIITs and CFTIs Admissions

The Joint Seat Allocation Authority (JoSAA) will conduct common counseling for the IITs, NITs, IIITs and GFTIs from June 19 tentatively.

Allotment will be done according to the ranks and preferences selected during JoSAA registration.

Candidates who have a valid rank in the JEE Main or JEE Advanced are eligible to apply for the admissions in these institutes.

NEET and JEE Main to be conducted twice a year by NTA instead of CBSE

The Center is considering to conduct the Entrance tests (NEET, JEE Main) for admissions to undergraduate courses in medical and engineering twice a year from 2019.

The government is in the process of setting up a National Testing Agency (NTA) which may start its operations from 2019. The agency will take over all the entrance tests now conducted by CBSE (Central Board of Secondary Education). These entrance tests are NEET (National Eligibility cum Entrance Test) for MBBS admission, the JEE Main (Joint Entrance Examination Main) for B.Tech courses and the NET (National Eligibility Test) for selecting teachers eligible to be appointed in colleges and universities.

"The NTA (National Testing Agency) will initially conduct those entrance examinations which are currently being conducted by the CBSE ... Other examinations, tests will be taken up gradually after the NTA is fully geared up ... The entrance examinations will be conducted in online mode at least twice a year, giving adequate opportunity to candidates to bring out their best," HRD Minister of State Upendra Kushwaha said in a written answer in the Lok Sabha.

At present all these entrance tests NEET, JEE Main, NET etc. are held once in a year. If the proposal is passed, then from 2019 National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) and Joint entrance Examination Main (JEE Main) will be conducted twice a year by NTA instead of Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE). NTA will also locate the examination centers at sub-district and district levels.

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CBSE announced tentative dates for IITJEE Main and JEE Advanced 2018

The offline version of IIT JEE Main 2018 will be held on April 8 next year, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has announced.

It has not declared the dates for the computer-based version that only a few among the 12 lakh candidates take.

The IIT JEE Advanced 2018, to be conducted by IIT Kanpur, will be held on May 20. It will be an entirely computer-based test. 

Also read: IITJEE Advanced to become totally computer based from 2018

The CBSE has also asked its affiliated schools not to pass off students of unaffiliated schools as their own for the board exams. 

IITJEE Advanced to become totally computer based from 2018

The IITJEE Advanced (Joint Entrance Examination Advanced), which governs B Tech admissions to the Indian Institutes of Technology, is likely to become a completely computer-based admission test from 2018. 
Also read: CBSE announced tentative dates for IITJEE Main and JEE Advanced 2018 

As per the current practice in IITJEE Advanced, candidates are given options of taking the examination in the computer mode, possible only at a handful of centres, or through pen-and-paper mode which is preferred by most of the students. If the exam becomes completely computer based, every center will be provided the questions through a CD or encrypted file. Then the students will have to open the question paper on a computer and answer a question with a click of the mouse almost similar to the pattern of the Common Admission Test (CAT) conducted by the Indian Institutes of Management.

Advantages of Computer-based IITJEE Advanced

• An entirely computer-based test would lead to faster evaluation.
• Save time of manual distribution and collection of answer papers and also scanning them.
• Improve fairness by removing possibility of scan failing to read an improperly blackened circle.

Further, to avoid repeats and string of flawed or ambiguous questions set, one of the possible solutions suggested has been a pre-prepared Question bank, screened thoroughly for ambiguity and other defects.

PROPOSALS ABOUT IITJEE ADVANCED

·     Fully computer-based test

·     More than one test a year

·     A question bank of 25000 questions

·     A mix of questions of varying difficulties, assessed on a scale of 1 to 10

·     Results in percentile instead of percentage, scores

America's Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT), conducted for undergraduate admissions, set 90 per cent of the questions from a bank while the rest are experimental questions that carry no marks. If the students, unaware which questions are experimental and forced to attempt all, do not find the experimental questions ambiguous, opaque or too difficult, these are added to the question bank.

If the proposal for a question bank is cleared, each of the bank's suggested 25000 questions may be graded on a difficulty scale of 1 to 10 to ensure a judicious mix of harder and easier questions.

The ministry of HRD wants the questions to be such that Class 11 and 12 students can comfortably answer them. Currently, all the questions in a particular section of the paper carry identical marks. But under the proposed system, a question's difficulty level will dictate how many marks it carries. The ministry also wants the results to be declared in terms of candidate's percentile score as done in CAT, GATE etc.

What is percentile and how percentile score is calculated?

A candidate's percentile is the number of students ranked below him divided by the number that took the exam, and the dividend multiplied by 100.

However, it is not clear why the ministry believes this would be a better system. IIT Kanpur will conduct the JEE Advanced 2018.

(Source: Telegraph, edited)