Mumbai: The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) Joint Admission Board (JAB) has decided to conduct the IIT-JEE (Joint Entrance Examination) online in the coming years. However, the process of conducting IIT-JEE as computer based test might take some time due to a fault that the IITs have not archived their old question papers.
According to the views of a member of JAB, the matter of making JEE a computer based test had been discussed by the Board when they had met this year. The problem they are facing right now is that they don't have a ready question bank, the member added. Furthermore, the member said that if they are to make JEE a computer based online test, they would require a huge question bank that has questions of a constant difficulty level.
In addition, the JAB member told that the old question papers had been destroyed, which slowed down the process to make JEE an online test. The JAB members told the sources that due to the escalating numbers of IIT aspirants, it might take them around three years to make the JEE a computer based test as a completely new question bank will have to be developed for the test to be offered online.
