HRD Likely to Conduct IIT Council Meeting on 21st August
- HRD Ministry will conduct the IIT Council Meeting on 21st August 2018, the agenda of which has not yet been finalised.
- The meeting is likely to highlight the JEE Main and JEE Advanced exam pattern changes and concerns over less qualifying candidates.
The Ministry of Human Resource Development is likely to conduct the IIT Council Meeting on Tuesday, 21st August 2018. The IIT Council is the highest decision-making body of all the IITs in the country and is headed by the HRD Minister. The last meeting of the IIT council took place at IIT Bombay on 28th April 2018.
The HRD Ministry has not finalized on the IIT Council Meet agenda yet. However, it is likely that the main focus of the meeting would be on JEE Main and JEE Advanced exam pattern and difficulty level. The IITs will be asked to review the JEE pattern and figure out the loopholes leading to a relatively less number of candidates qualifying the examination this year.
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The first merit list of JEE Advanced 2018 had names of about 18,000 candidates, which is the lowest figure in the past eight years. Many IITs are concerned about the filling up all 11,000 seats based on the merit list.
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Following the low numbers, the government had issued a direction to IIT Kanpur, which was the organizing committee of JEE Advanced this year, to release an extended merit list for the same. The JEE Advanced extended merit list contained names of 32,000 candidates.