Please let me know the main changes in IITJEE2013

Important things to be known for ISEET

• A meeting of all state ministers took place in New Delhi on 22^nd February 2012. The agenda was to discuss a common entrance test for engineering all over India to be known as ISEET.
• At least five states have raised their concern on various issues which are related to ISEET.
• The state Govts have told MHRD to notify the format of the test which will be done.
• If things go fine, ISEET can be implemented from year 2013.
• The MHRD can notify this in month of June or July 2012.
• There are 12 lacs students expected to sit for ISEET 2013.

 Construct of ISEET

• An ISEET - Main test and an ISEET Advance Test to be conducted on same day.
• ISEET Main test will be of aptitude of 2 hours from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM.
• The aptitude test will have questions of Comprehension, Critical Reading and Logical reasoning.
• The number of questions may be from 70 to 100 in order to check the accuracy of students. The idea of aptitude is to determine IQ of Students.
• The Advance test will be of 3 hours from 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM.
• The advance test will have questions of PCM in order to examine problem solving aptitude of the students
• The number of questions in advance test will be as usual 69.
• The final merit list will have marks of Class 12^th board (40%) for PCM and 60% of ISEET.
• ISEET will take place either in the month of April or May.
• In 2013, the test will be conducted twice and after this it will be conducted 4 times a year.
• In year 2013, weightage of class 12 will be 15%, in 2014 20% and finally from 2015, it will be 40%.
• ISEET score will be valid for 2 years.
• If a student wants to improve his board marks, he can again sit for the respective board exam.
• The IIT may or may not use the marks of ISEET Main test. In that, it will use class 12^th board marks and ISEET advance test marks.
• Question papers of main test and advance test will be framed by IITs.
• ISEET will be conducted by CBSE.

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