Many studies have shown that coaching classes increase the chances of JEE success. But for that one has to pay huge fees for coaching classes. Many people from lower economic strata spend more than they can afford to send their children to coaching classes. Although the chances of clearing JEE are higher after taking a coaching class, there is no guarantee of success in this exam. Children who feel that they will not be able to pass the exam may feel guilty. Sometimes this feeling can lead to suicide. The proposal I am making through this article is to address this question by mainstreaming coaching classes.

What can be improved??

According to the All India Higher Education Survey 2021-22, among the 3.9 lakh students pursuing engineering, the proportion of girls was 29 percent. Girls constitute 30 percent of the applicants for JEE. Unfortunately, less than 10 per cent girls were getting admission in IITs until 20 per cent reservation was implemented for them. Considering that JEE requires a lot of investment and in our society this investment in education is not made for girls, reservation is the only way for girls to get into the process. Of course it is not a good method.

If studying for JEE would have been useful later, the situation would not have worsened. But it doesn’t happen. For example, while the study of trigonometry (trigonometry) is useful for anyone who wants to become an engineer, the thousands of different ways of solving trigonometric ‘problems’ are of no use to anyone. Most engineering graduates who scored well in school and worked hard for JEE are unemployed today. They will not be unemployed if they prepare for JEE as suggested in this article. Because not being able to study the branch/subject one likes and having to do something else is another serious problem. A good solution is to let the student learn what he likes.

Another issue is regarding JEE timings. Currently, the JEE exam is conducted in a very short period between the end of the 12th exam and the onset of monsoons. If one fails to reach that exam time due to any reason, it has serious consequences in his life. He cannot get admission anywhere in the higher education system across the country.

A new approach

All the higher education institutes in the country (many such as the local IITs, NITs, BITS Pilani or NIT Trichy) should work at the mentor level rather than ‘educate’ students. In these organizations B. There should not be classes to ‘teach’ first and second year students of Tech. It is on this assumption that further changes in ‘JEE’ will be possible. My proposal is that there will be hundreds of engineering colleges beyond 12th level. After 12th a student can enroll in any of these institutes based on their preferred branch and desired location. There will not be much stress in this selection process, as IITs will not be involved at this stage.

At the end of the second year of engineering, an entrance test can be taken for admission to the third year of engineering in the above mentioned mentoring institutes. Hence, such ‘guiding institutes’ will have twice as many students admitted as these institutes will not have first and second year students. Whatever engineering course a student chooses after class 12th, it will be taught in the first two years on the basis of NPTEL (National Program on Technology Enhanced Learning) videos with appropriate standards. JEE will be after that.

Students who prepared well for that JEE, but did not get admission in the guiding institute of their choice, will graduate after studying for two more years in their previous college. They will study as per NPTEL syllabus and graduate as a good engineer. They will also get good jobs. This will also increase the number of students available for higher education as well as research.

NPTEL courses for all required subjects can be made available for free and with local language dubbing. IIT institutes can organize free online help sessions to clear doubts in all NPTEL courses.

Guidance institutions should have academic and financial autonomy. In particular, they should be given the freedom to decide how much they can charge. Colleges which send students to a large number of guidance institutes can be promoted as mentors. Colleges that perform well can be encouraged in this manner. Coaching classes that send their students to a large number of coaching institutes can also be promoted to the level of a mentor.

Good education, Good employment

Some needs of industries can be met in this method. For example, all aspirants may be asked to take and pass the Computer Programming Aptitude Test to get admission in the Computer Science stream of mentoring institutes. This will give a clear message to the students about ‘need to learn programming’ which will be useful in practice as well. Compare this with the current situation. According to a study by ‘Aspiring Minds’ out of 36 thousand computer science graduates only 1.4 percent can code accurately and efficiently.

This approach has great potential to improve the productivity of the IT industry. This will make JEE an effective tool for imparting all other essential skills to educational institutions.

JEE will be in the fourth semester of college (ie after two years), let’s see how its new format will be. Multiple Choice Question (MCQ) based examination may be conducted for each subject to select students from ten times the number of seats available. Students may be asked to clear a ‘Problem Solving’ test for admission to mentoring institutes. For example, if there are a total of 1000 seats in Chemical Engineering, preliminary selection can be done through multiple choice questions out of 10000 candidates, while the final selection can be done through ‘problem solving’ in the next stage. Students will have the freedom to take the multiple choice question based exam more than once. Exams can be conducted at different times for different branches, thus the selection process will also be less hectic and less complicated.

The central idea of ​​this proposal is that regardless of the selection method, the top two percent of students will do well. JEE will not be a ‘lottery’! This method can be implemented as a pilot in some branches or selected IITs and if found satisfactory, can be further implemented in all the mentoring institutes.