Most of them, however, have suggested a single national test for admissions to all institutions
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Hyderabad: Numerous committees have been formed till date to suggest changes to entrance and admission tests in the country though recommendations were never implemented.
Radical reforms like a single national test for admissions to all institutions and a National Testing Agency have also been suggested in the past but nothing ever materialised.
Most of them, however, have suggested a single national test for admissions to all institutions. Most recently, a report tabled in the NIT Council suggested scrapping 12th marks weightage in JEE Main.
Another committee has been constituted by the Union HRD Ministry to submit a report on a single entrance test for admission to both IITs and NITs.
In 2013, an idea to set up a national institution for conducting exams was floated and a task force to set up the National Testing Agency formed.
But nearly two years later, nothing has materialised. The decision to set up the National Testing Agency was taken in the Central Advisory Board for Education held in April 2013.
Another HRD Ministry committee to look at restructuring the AICTE had recently suggested setting up a similar single national test for admissions to all the institutions in the country.
It may also be noteworthy to mention that a review of the IITs in 2004 suggested that, “the system has been put in place for the conduct of the JEE, (it) should not be disturbed as it has evolved over the years to be among the best entrance exams in the world at that level. This is recognised internationally and nothing should be done to interfere with it.”
In 2006, the system was changed to a single exam JEE. In 2011, the T. Ramasami Expert Committee recommended to the Union HRD Ministry that “One National Screening Test for admission into engineering programmes supported by methodologies for factorising scores obtained in school board examinations while retaining their diversities seems the way forward. The committee does make a strong case for such a change in paradigm.”
( Source : deccan chronicle )
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