For 2013 many changes were done to introduce a common entrance test for all engineering colleges across the country and it created lot of confusion among all aspirants. Changes are not finalised yeat and might change again in 2014. The HRD ministry is again ready to bring a single national testing mechanism to standardise undergraduate level entrance examinations. HRD ministry has already set up a task force to draft a National Testing Scheme and a National Testing Agency to implement the proposal.
National task force will prepare a blue print for National testing agency and will also help them to standardise all major tests.
“Students emerging from secondary school and seeking admission to professional programmes at undergraduate level in higher education are required to appear in a multitude of entrance examinations. The standards of these entrance examinations vary widely and the burden imposed on students in terms of time, money and the stress caused in scheduling and preparing for such examination is tremendous. The multiplicity of entrance examinations needs to be dispensed with and it then becomes incumbent to develop a nationally accepted testing mechanism,” the ministry has said in an order notifying setting up of the task force, which would be headed by former director of IIT Kanpur Prof Sanjay G Dhande and which is expected to submit its report in a year.
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