West Bengal may abolish JEE

The West bengal state higher education department might consider doing away with the joint entrance examination (WBJEE) if Tamil Nadu's decision to abolish JEE for engineering and medical courses is upheld by the Supreme Court, Reports the Statesman.

Mr Sudarshan Roychoudhury,State higher education minister, today (july 21, 2008) said in the Assembly that they are keeping a tab on the issue taken by Tamil Nadu to abolish the JEE for engineering and medical. He said the decision has been okayed by the Tamil Nadu High Court but the matter is now pending at the Supreme Court.

“It is a good proposal to consider admission on the basis of merit in engineering and medical courses. But there is a problem too. There are a number of councils which hold higher secondary examinations. It is difficult to bring a parity in all these examinations,” said Mr Roychoudhury.

However, the higher education minister informed the Assembly that he would put forward a proposal to do away with the age bar in medical entrance test in the review meeting of the JEE board this year. The minister said this while replying to a question raised by Mr Manas Bhunia of the Congress in which he asked why the state has imposed an age bar in the medical entrance test when the Medical Council of India has no such preconditions.

The minister said they do not have any plan to bifurcate the JEE board and set up two separate boards to hold engineering and medical entrance tests separately. He added that the state government has taken a series of steps to stop irregularities that were taking place in JEE. The minister also informed the Assembly that police are still investigating the JEE racket case that was exposed by Kolkata Police last year.

Source - The Statesman

Counselling of WBJEE-2008 and AIEEE-2008 rank in West bengal

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WBJEE 2008 postponed due to paper leak

The West Bengal Joint Entrance Examination (WBJEE 2008) for admission to undergraduate courses in Engineering/Technology/ Medical/Dental /Veterinary and Pharmacy in Universities/Colleges in West Bengal and B. Arch Course in Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur and Jadavpur University scheduled to be held today (April 20, 2008) has been postponed by the WBJEE board after the physics, chemistry and biology papers were leaked.

The next date for the exam will be decided when the board meets next week with higher education minister Sudarshan Roychaudhuri and the higher education secretary in attendance.

Two persons, Arun Chowdhury and Mihir Dandapatt, were arres-ted on Saturday in West Midnapore's Ghatal, where the three papers were being sold for Rs 2.5 lakh.

The arrests came hours after the police received a call. The caller gave the police a cellphone number and said they would know abo-ut JEE papers being leaked after tracing the user of the mobile.

The police have informed JEE chairman Siddhartha Dutta and senior higher education officials about the sale of the papers. "The papers recovered from Ghatal were brought to the board's Salt Lake office for verification on Saturday morning," said a senior higher education department official.

After a thorough check, the duplicate papers were found to be identical to the original ones, barring figures and diagrams.

"Figures and diagrams were missing. However, the rest of the questions were the same as those in the original papers. We immediately decided to defer WBJEE 2008," said the official.

The duplicate question papers were on physics, chemistry and biology. Significantly, mathematics was not among the papers recovered. "This is a clear indication that medical exam seats were the target," explained the official.

West Bengal JEE abolition still under consideration

Kolkata : Dec 11 -The proposal to abolish the West Bengal joint entrance examination (JEE) and admit students to medical colleges on the basis of their performance in the Class XII board exams is still under consideration, higher education minister Sudarshan Ray Chaudhuri said in the Assembly on Monday.

According to him, the state government might reconsider the proposal, depending on the verdict in a case related to introduction of a similar system in Tamil Nadu.

“Students are being admitted to medical colleges in Tamil Nadu on the basis of their Class XII marks. We had sent a team of higher education department officials to the state to study the system. The officials have submitted their report,” said the minister.

He added: “However, a case has been filed against the Tamil Nadu government’s move. We will take a decision on the issue if the court rules in favour of admitting medical students according to their board examination marks.”

The minister was replying to a question by Manas Bhuniya of the Congress on steps being taken to make the JEE more transparent, in the wake of the medical entrance scam.

Ray Chaudhuri pointed out that there were difficulties in re-introducing the pre-1962 system of admitting students to medical colleges on the basis of marks obtained in the school-leaving examinations. “There are 32 boards that organise Plus-II exams in India. We must have a clear policy regarding cut-off marks that covers all the boards.”

During the discussion, the minister said the upper-age limit of candidates seeking admission to medical courses through the JEE might also be raised.

To ensure that only fresh pass-outs make it to the medical courses, the state government had abolished the practice of allowing candidates to appear in the JEE (medical) as many times as they wanted to.

It was decided that from 2008, students will be allowed to appear in the JEE (medical) three times, starting from the year they sit for their Class XII exams for the first time.

For example, candidates who have passed Higher Secondary or an equivalent examination before 2006 will not be able to sit for next year’s JEE (medical).

The minister said the 2008 JEE would be held according to the new rules. “But discussions are on to allow aspiring students more chances to appear in the medical entrance tests.”

Source The Telegraph

WBJEE 2008- West Bengal Joint Entrance Exam Dates announced

WBJEE 2008 on April 20th - Applications are invited from Indian Citizens for admission to undergraduate courses in Engineering/Technology/ Medical/Dental /Veterinary and Pharmacy in Universities/Colleges in West Bengal and B. Arch Course in Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur and Jadavpur University for the academic session 2008-2009, on the basis of a JOINT ENTRANCE EXAMINATION, to be conducted by the "WEST BENGAL JOINT ENTRANCE EXAMINATIONS BOARD".

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Applications are invited from Indian Citizens for admission to the undergraduate courses in the Engineering/Technological/Dairy and Pharmacy and Medical/Dental/Veterinary and Ayurvedacharya /Homoeopathy /Physiotherapy /Unani and Nurshing (H) in University/ Colleges in West Bengal and B. Arch Course in Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur and Jadavpur University during the academic session 2007 – 2008, on the basis of a JOINT ENTRANCE EXAMINATION, to be conducted by the “WEST BENGAL JOINT ENTRANCE EXAMINATIONS BOARD”. Detailsed information will be available in the Information Brochure Click for complete details WBJEE 2007


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