In a 1st, National Testing Agency releases schedule of NET, JEE and 11other exams
Manash.Gohain@timesgroup.com
New Delhi:23.08.2019
The National Testing Agency announced the dates for 13 competitive exams including joint entrance examination (main), national eligibility-cum-entrance test-UG, the Delhi University and Jawaharlal Nehru University entrance tests and UGC-NET on Thursday.
This is the first time the dates for these major centralized competitive tests for admission to various professional courses and eligibility exams have been announced together well in advance. The NTA, following its successful pilot run is also exploring introduction of “face recognition technology” to check impersonation. NTA is expecting a total of 70 lakh registrations for these 13 tests. Earlier, these tests were conducted by seven different agencies. From December, 2018 these exams were passed on to NTA.
The HRD ministry had asked NTA to prepare the schedule in advance so that students could plan their preparations and other examining bodies could schedule exams that do not clash with these important tests. The NTA’s new cycle of tests is to commence from December, 2019 with the computer-based entrance exam for the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), the first B-school to have engaged the agency, followed by the University Grants Commission National Eligibility Test and Council of Scientific and Industrial Research National Eligibility Test this December.
According to the schedule, the two JEE (main) 2020 tests will be conducted from January 6 to January 11, 2020, and April 3 to April 9, 2020, respectively. The NEET-UG 2020 will be conducted on May 3, 2020.
“The ministry thought that a common schedule, if announced in advance, has multiple advantages. There are many state-run competitive tests as well as private exams which can be scheduled without them clashing,” a senior HRD official said. The agency is likely to make a few changes in the online form for these exams from this year. A candidate will have to upload a “live photo” during registration.
“Photo verification will be done at two stages — once during registration and again as the candidate enters the test centre. During registration the candidate will upload a photo. Along with that, the camera on the computer will click a photo to ascertain that it is the same person filling the form,” an NTA official said.
“At the entrance to the centre, as the candidate enters, the camera stationed there will capture a photo of the candidate and match it with the photos uploaded during registration from the database in real time,” the NTA official added. Speaking to TOI, HRD minister Ramesh Pokhriyal said: “NTA has been innovating and evolving. Such modern technology will only make our testing system more robust.”
Full report on www.toi.in
Manash.Gohain@timesgroup.com
New Delhi:23.08.2019
The National Testing Agency announced the dates for 13 competitive exams including joint entrance examination (main), national eligibility-cum-entrance test-UG, the Delhi University and Jawaharlal Nehru University entrance tests and UGC-NET on Thursday.
This is the first time the dates for these major centralized competitive tests for admission to various professional courses and eligibility exams have been announced together well in advance. The NTA, following its successful pilot run is also exploring introduction of “face recognition technology” to check impersonation. NTA is expecting a total of 70 lakh registrations for these 13 tests. Earlier, these tests were conducted by seven different agencies. From December, 2018 these exams were passed on to NTA.
The HRD ministry had asked NTA to prepare the schedule in advance so that students could plan their preparations and other examining bodies could schedule exams that do not clash with these important tests. The NTA’s new cycle of tests is to commence from December, 2019 with the computer-based entrance exam for the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), the first B-school to have engaged the agency, followed by the University Grants Commission National Eligibility Test and Council of Scientific and Industrial Research National Eligibility Test this December.
According to the schedule, the two JEE (main) 2020 tests will be conducted from January 6 to January 11, 2020, and April 3 to April 9, 2020, respectively. The NEET-UG 2020 will be conducted on May 3, 2020.
“The ministry thought that a common schedule, if announced in advance, has multiple advantages. There are many state-run competitive tests as well as private exams which can be scheduled without them clashing,” a senior HRD official said. The agency is likely to make a few changes in the online form for these exams from this year. A candidate will have to upload a “live photo” during registration.
“Photo verification will be done at two stages — once during registration and again as the candidate enters the test centre. During registration the candidate will upload a photo. Along with that, the camera on the computer will click a photo to ascertain that it is the same person filling the form,” an NTA official said.
“At the entrance to the centre, as the candidate enters, the camera stationed there will capture a photo of the candidate and match it with the photos uploaded during registration from the database in real time,” the NTA official added. Speaking to TOI, HRD minister Ramesh Pokhriyal said: “NTA has been innovating and evolving. Such modern technology will only make our testing system more robust.”
Full report on www.toi.in
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