With the board exams just eight months away, parents are paying extra money to coaching classes to prepare their children for the upcoming board exams too, defying the purpose of a common entrance test for admissions to centrally funded technical institutions including the IITs and the NITs. Students in Maharashtra are even more affected as the class XII syllabus for mathematics and science changed this year, with textbooks made available to them just a month ago.
One of the main purposes behind the centre introducing a single exam combining the All India Engineering Entrance Exam (AIEEE) and the IIT joint entrance exam (IIT-JEE) was to restrain the mushrooming coaching industry, which will not be achieved. Even as uncertainty looms over the common test, parents and students from the 2013 batch of class XII are anxious and infuriated by the reforms. Many of them are in fact wondering when the official notification for the new reforms will come by, with the government and the IITs still dilly-dallying over several aspects.
Blog Content from Yogita Rao , TNN Jun 25, 2012, 01.56AM IST
