JEE Main exam: Are coaching centres the key to crack JEE
TNN | Updated: Jan 27, 2019, 09:33 IST
A s many as 15 students achieved a perfect score of 100 percentile. The one thing they had in common is that they all claim to have enrolled in coaching centres for additional guidance and study material.
As many as six students who scored 100 percentile have been studying in the parallel schools set up by coaching centres. In this school format, students do not attend conventional classes, which allow them sufficient time to prepare for JEE. "The number of applicants in such competitive exams is exponentially high as compared to the seats available. The level of difficulty is intentionally kept high for meritorious students to get filtered. School education is not enough to prepare the students even for the board exams. This explains why students and parents are inclined towards coaching centres," said Siddarth Pandey, chairman, JEE Advanced, IIT Delhi.
Vineet Joshi, director general of NTA blames the peer pressure that makes the students enrol in coachings. "Anyone who has understood the concepts of NCERT books of class XII and has enough practice can pass with flying colours in JEE Main," he added.
According to students' state code of eligibility in NTA records, as many as 4 applicants from Telangana have achieved the perfect score, but state-wise results are not the real indicators, as several students have relocated to different cities for JEE preparations. "We are natives of Andhra Pradesh but my son relocated to Telangana to study at one of the coaching centres,"said father of one of the Telangana toppers. Speaking of parallel schools, Joshi added, "NTA canno t control whether an applicant has attended a school as eligibility criteria for JEE is marks dependent and independent of school attendance."
As many as six students who scored 100 percentile have been studying in the parallel schools set up by coaching centres. In this school format, students do not attend conventional classes, which allow them sufficient time to prepare for JEE. "The number of applicants in such competitive exams is exponentially high as compared to the seats available. The level of difficulty is intentionally kept high for meritorious students to get filtered. School education is not enough to prepare the students even for the board exams. This explains why students and parents are inclined towards coaching centres," said Siddarth Pandey, chairman, JEE Advanced, IIT Delhi.
Vineet Joshi, director general of NTA blames the peer pressure that makes the students enrol in coachings. "Anyone who has understood the concepts of NCERT books of class XII and has enough practice can pass with flying colours in JEE Main," he added.
According to students' state code of eligibility in NTA records, as many as 4 applicants from Telangana have achieved the perfect score, but state-wise results are not the real indicators, as several students have relocated to different cities for JEE preparations. "We are natives of Andhra Pradesh but my son relocated to Telangana to study at one of the coaching centres,"said father of one of the Telangana toppers. Speaking of parallel schools, Joshi added, "NTA canno t control whether an applicant has attended a school as eligibility criteria for JEE is marks dependent and independent of school attendance."
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