Karti P Chidambaram, an MP, raised a zero-hour issue in the winter session of Parliament today, urging Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan to get the National Testing Agency (NTA) to provide a one-time exception to the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Main 2023 applicants and let all pupils take the engineering entrance exam.
Recently, Chidambaram sent a letter to the education minister requesting a leniency for JEE Main applicants who will be taking their final attempt at the 2022 exam.
The MP tweeted a plea to the Minister of Education to instruct the National Testing Agency to grant a one-time exemption to the 2020 #JEE participants whose exam was disrupted due to technical issues. They need an opportunity to take the test in a fair manner, the MP said.
In the MP’s letter, they pointed out that both JEE Main 2022 exams this June and July were not successful due to a variety of technical glitches including computer malfunctions, frozen screens for prolonged periods, slow loading of questions, and incomplete questions. This led to many test takers suffering from a drastic drop in their scores and percentiles.
Apart from this, some students were unable to take the JEE Main 2022 exam because of last-minute alterations in the test centre. After the test, a few test-takers also noticed discrepancies in their answer sheets and mistakes in the JEE Main 2022 scores.
The MP implored Dharmendra Pradhan to take action and grant a special allowance to waive the requirements for all pupils taking the JEE Main and Advanced tests in 2023. This will eliminate the trouble of distinguishing individual students who experienced problems during the 2022 tests.
