Mumbai: The next year's Joint Entrance Exam (JEE) of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) would be slightly modified and would consist of two papers of three hours' duration each, Chairman, Joint Admission Board (JAB) Prof Ashok Misra said.
"JEE 2007, to be held on April 8 next, will be slightly different from JEE 2006 and will have a single stage objective type examination consisting of two papers, instead of three, of three hours duration each, to test the comprehension and analytical ability of the candidates," he said.
Both the papers will have three separate sections on Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics, he said adding this would be held in place of the three papers of two hours duration each introduced in JEE 2006, which was also a single stage
examination, held on April 9.
The decision on the type of examination for JEE 2007 was jointly taken by the directors of all the seven IITs at a JAB meeting held here today, Misra said.
Misra said the JAB reviewed JEE-2006 in detail and found that a total of 2,87,564 candidates appeared for the examination, including 25,465 students belonging to SC and 6209 ST candidates.
The total number of candidates who qualified in JEE-2006 was 6343, which included 699 SC and 156 ST candidates.
In addition to these, SC/ST candidates from the preparatory course of JEE-2005 were also admitted to the academic programmes of 2006.
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