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After experimenting with the single, multiple choice questions (MCQ)-based IIT-JEE test format for years, the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) propose to return to the old system of screening aspirants at two levels to weed out “unmanageable” candidates taking the exam every year. This year, 4.5 lakh candidates took IITJEE for 10,000 seats.

 For the final entry to the technical institutes, aspirants who clear the first level of screening in IIT JEE - comprising Class XII board exams and national aptitude test – would have to write an exam featuring long questions that demand reasoning ability from the students. This format would potentially prohibit the coaching industry, believes the IIT-JEE reform panel set up this February, to draft reforms for the entry to IITs and other technical institutes in India.

IIT JEE 2012- Indian Institute of Technology - Joint Entrance Examination is an Entrance Exam conducted by Indian Institute of Technology for admission to Undergraduate Courses in fifteen IITs. This is IIT JEE 2012 Exam Section. In this section of IIT JEE 2012, you will find Syllabus of IIT JEE Entrance Exam 2012, IIT JEE 2012 Exam Date, Notification, Syllabus, Preparation, Paper Pattern, Sample Test Papers, Questions, IIT JEE Exam Dates, Online IIT JEE Test and IIT JEE Results.

This may be a good news for those who had scored very good percentage in their XII board exam as Marks scored in the Plus Two board examinations are going to decide your eligibility in the Joint Entrance Examination (IITJEE) for admission into the prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) by 2011.
 

 Union human resource development ministry has set up a committee of IITs professors, to suggest reforms to IIT-JEE, is expected to submit its report recommending ways to consider the marks scored by students in higher secondary examinations while preparing the IIT merit list. A meeting of all IIT-JEE directors and AIEEE 2012 representatives in Chennai over the weekend discussed the proposed changes

 All the 30 students of Super 30, Bihar's free coaching centre for poor students in Patna, cracked IIT-JEE this year. "All the 30 students have cleared IIT-JEE," Anand Kumar, the institute's director-cum-founder said at a press conference on Wednesday. It is a matter of great pleasure as we have achieved it again, he said, adding that since the inception of the coaching centre in 2002, a total of 212 students have cleared IIT-JEE examination, which is considered as one of the toughest examinations

There are several eligibility conditions for IITJEE candidates. Candidates belonging to GE, OBC and DS categories must be born on or after October 01, 1986 and those belonging to SC, ST and PD categories must be born on or after October 01, 1981.

Candidates belonging to GE, OBC and DS categories must secure a minimum of 60% marks and candidates belonging to SC, ST and PD categories must secure at least 55% marks in total in the qualifying examination.

Also, the JEE exam can be taken only twice; in consecutive years. If the candidate has accepted admission after qualifying in JEE in earlier years by paying full fees at any of the IITs, IT-BHU, Varanasi or ISM, Dhanbad, he will not be eligible to take the JEE exam at all.

 IITJEE examinations have two papers, three hours each. These papers have questions from chemistry, physics and mathematics. Each paper has three subsections, with questions from three subjects without sectional time limit.

The new pattern has 20 percent time reduced from previous exams. So if interval is of 2 hours, the candidate will be in the exam hall for 8 hours rather than 10 hours as before.

In the new pattern, there will be two papers instead of three and this will definitely help students lessen stress. Testing time remains as it is, students are trained for looking at problems.

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) conduct a Joint Entrance Examination – JEE every year for the admission to its B-Tech and other courses offered at the IIT Mumbai, IIT Kanpur, IIT Delhi, IIT Chennai, IIT Kharakpur, IIT Guwahati, IIT Roorkee, IT Varanasi and ISM Dhanbad.

JOINT ENTRANCE EXAMINATION 2011 ( JEE 2011 ) Application for the examination can be submitted through on-line or offline. Information brochure for IITJEE 2011 can be downloaded from here

Off-line: Candidate may buy IITJEE application form with the information brochure by giving Rs. 500/- for ST, SC or female (White Color Envelop) and Rs.1000/- for all other candidates (Blue Color Envelop). This information brochure contains all the details related to JEE such as procedure of the application, examination center, syllabus, courses offered by various institutes, fee structure, counseling and other related information about IIT JEE 2011.

On-line: For the online application form, visit any related site and cautiously follow all the given instructions. This can be done from the IIT websites. There is no need to purchase the hard copy of the application form. However, this method requires a few things like print-out, fee and others to be sent to the IIT Madras postal address. Examination schedule for IIT JEE-2011: Important dates for the IIT-JEE 2009 examination: Online Application Date and Time: Syllabus for the Screening Test as well as for the Main Examination will be same. The detailed syllabus will be available in the Information Brochure.

The Indian Institute of Technology Joint Entrance Examination (popularly known as IIT-JEE or just JEE) is an annual college entrance examination in India. A total of 17 colleges use JEE as a sole criterion for admission to their undergraduate programs. The 17 colleges include the 7 old and 8 new (2009) Indian Institutes of Technology, IT-BHU Varanasi, and ISM Dhanbad. Starting in 2007, newly established institutions such as Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (IISERs) at Kolkata, Pune, Mohali, Bhopal & Thiruvananthapuram, Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST), Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, Indian Institute of Maritime Studies, Mumbai and Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology (RGIPT), Raebarely Uttar Pradesh are also admitting students through the JEE. For 2010, IIST has announced its own entrance exam. The exam is conducted by the various IITs by a policy of rotation. It is one of the toughest engineering entrance exams in the world with a success rate of around 1 in 45. Candidates who qualify in the IIT-JEE can apply for admission to the BArch (Bachelor of Architecture), BDes (Bachelor of Design), BTech (Bachelor of Technology), Dual Degree (Integrated Bachelor of Technology and Master of Technology), Integrated MSc (Master of Sciences) and Integrated MSc(Tech) (Master of Sciences and Technology) courses in the various institutes. Achieving entrance into an IIT is often considered the pinnacle of achievement for a student of the sciences, and the IITs/IT-BHU/ISM attract most of the brightest students of the nation.

Of the 384,977 candidates who appeared in the examination conducted on April 12, 2009, 10,035 candidates have been declared qualified to seek admission, giving a selectivity of 1 in 38 overall, 1 in 46 for the 8,295 seats in IITs,IT-BHU and ISM and 1 in 59 for the IITs only.

The IIT-JEE has evolved considerably from its initial pattern approximately 45 years back. Initially, there were 4 subjects in IIT-JEE, the English language paper being the additional subject. During the period from 2000 to 2005, the IITJEE also had a screening test in addition to the IITJEE main examination in order to reduce the load on the IIT JEE main examination by screening only about 20,000 top candidates. In 1997, the JEE was conducted twice after the question paper was leaked in some centers.

In September 2005, an analysis group comprising of directors of all the IITs announced major reforms in JEE, implemented from 2006 onwards. The new test consists of a single objective test, replacing the earlier two-test system. The candidates belonging to the general category must secure a minimum of 60% marks in aggregate in the qualifying examination of the XIIth standard organized by various educational boards of India. Candidates belonging to Scheduled Caste (SC), Scheduled Tribe (ST) and Physically Disabled (PD) categories must secure a minimum of 55% in aggregate in the Qualifying Examination.

In 2008, the director and the dean of IIT Madras called for revamping JEE, saying that the coaching institutes were "enabling many among the less-than-best students to crack the test and keeping girls from qualifying." They expressed concern that the present system did not allow for the 12 years of schooling to have a bearing on admissions into IITs.

Each year IIT-JEE is conducted by any one of the old IITs in a round robin fashion. In 2009, it was conducted by IIT-G. The IIT-JEE 2010, was conducted on April 11, 2010, by IIT Madras. Results were released on May 26, 2010. IIT-M introduced an online application process this year and a total of over 472,000 candidates have registered for the exam.

According to the data released by the organizing committee of IIT-JEE, the children of medical professionals had the highest success rate in the IIT-JEE (for the years 2006, 2007 and 2008). They were followed by the children of engineers. The maximum number of students taking IIT-JEE are the children of government employees, but they had a much lower success rate.