The NTA (National Testing Agency) has expanded the reach of India’s most popular engineering entrance exam (JEE Mains) by conducting it across more than 19 overseas centres for more than 1200 candidates this year. The exam was held in several cities across US, Canada, Russia & Indonesia for the first time (some of these cities included Washington DC, Jakarta, Port Luis & Moscow)
This is the
first time that the organizing body has thought of conducting the exam beyond
the middle east (countries such as UAE & Saudi have a sizeable population
of students who wish to appear for Indian entrance exams). The most popular
foreign destinations to write the Joint Entrance Exam included Dubai, Sharjah
& Muscat. The NTA has also made efforts to improve access to the exam by
setting up centres in remote parts of the country such as Nalbari, Buxar,
Motihari etc. The NTAs efforts to work with foreign embassies and local district
administrations to conduct the exam for a million candidates is commendable.
The JEE Mains
was conducted across 2 sessions over the past few weeks. More than 9 lakh
candidates have appeared for the exam which will be used for admissions into
various National Institutes of Technology, Centrally Funded Technological
Institutes, and other reputed engineering colleges in the country. The exam
will also be used as a screening test / precursor to the JEE Advanced (the
entrance test for the IITs)
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