The Bombay High Court, which was hearing a plea seeking postponement of the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Main exam, has posted another date for hearing. The hearing of this matter will now be held on 21 February 2023. The plea argues that most of the state boards have scheduled their pre-board and board exams for January 2023. Therefore, the petition states, “Students will find it difficult to appear for JEE Mains. Exam”, seeking postponement of Session 1 exam to be held from January 2023 to April 2023.
The PIL was filed by activist Anubha Srivastava Sahay. Advocate Joseph Thatte, appearing for Sahai, argued that the JEE process was completed in November 2022 itself and the students were surprised by the announcement of January 2023 dates.
The petitioner has argued that the January 2023 exams would be detrimental to the future of the students and sought postponement of January to April and April exams to May 2023.
The court will hear the matter on February 21 and the January exam will be conducted as per the schedule.
National Testing Agency (NTA) had earlier announced the academic session 2023-24 and it was decided that JEE (Main) 2023 will be conducted in two sessions – Session 1 (January 2023) and Session 2 (April 2023).
The Joint Entrance Examination (JEE (Main) consists of two papers. Paper 1 (BE/B.Tech.) is conducted for admission to undergraduate engineering programs (BE/B.Tech.) in NITs, IIITs, other Centrally Funded Technical Institutes (CFTIs) ), funded/recognized institutions/universities by the participating State Governments.
The exam will be conducted in 13 languages - English, Hindi, Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu.
Meanwhile, a fake notice circulating on Twitter claims that NTA has decided to postpone JEE Main Session 1 exam due to high demand. JEE students must know that no such announcement has been made by NTA.
(with agency inputs)
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