The adoption of two-stage pattern has led many controversies from students and parents this year due to "normalisation of marks" and the “Top-20 percentile norm". This has many students to miss seats in IITs and NITs, despite securing better marks in the JEE entrance and their board exams. Several students have approached the courts against the new JEE format and a case is pending in the Supreme Court. Andhra Pradesh students were the worst-affected.
M.M. Pallam Raju, UMHRD minister will hold a meeting with the Joint Admission Board, which monitors admissions for IITs, on August 18.
Next year's exam pattern will either be retaining the previous IIT-JEE format or continue with the two-stage JEE, with amendments. This will be announced early, by the first week of September. Through this students will become much aware of the pattern and can prepare accordingly.
JEE reforms have been changed with an aim to reduce the high-end dependency on "coaching institutes" and concentrate more on board examination.
However, the corrective decisions will be made by debating on various issues in the department, aiming for a better JEE examination format for the academic year 2014-15.
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