JNU to conduct entrance exams online
New Delhi, March 13
In a first, the Jawaharlal Nehru University will be conducting its entrance exams online this year, which will be held in May and the registration process will start on March 15, officials said Wednesday.
The online registration process for JNU Entrance Examination, 2019-20, will begin online from March 15 and National Testing Agency (NTA) will upload the e-prospectus. The registration process will close on April 15, while students will have the option of correcting their application forms from April 17 to April 19, university officials said. The admit cards will be available for download from the NTA website from April 22 while the entrance exam will be held from May 27 to May 30, they said.
The seat intake for this academic year is 3,383 in all the programmes of which 1,043 are for the MPhil and PhD courses. JNU would be adopting digitalization in its entrance examination process in line with major academic institutions and central universities such as IIT, BHU, Delhi University, Central Universities Common Entrance Test (CUCET), the officials said.
In order to increase its outreach among the student fraternity, JNU entrance examination would be conducted in 127 cities across India, which is a two-and-a-half fold increase from past years' number of cities, the officials said.
The computer-based test would comprise multiple choice questions in all disciplines and would not require any special knowledge of computers or technical proficiency, they said.
The MCQ format will bring complete objectivity in the examination process, making the system further transparent, the university said.
The NTA has excellent mechanisms of even displaying the correct answers of the question papers post examination that can be reviewed by all students, the date for which is yet to be announced, the officials said. — PTI
