JEE Advanced 2020: The Joint Admission Board of the Indian Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) has announced that candidates who missed this year’s admission test, JEE Advanced 2020, due to COVID-19 will be allowed to appear for it in 2021 without having to qualify for JEE Main 2021. Unless the “extra” chance is being given only to candidates who were COVID-positive, this decision will affect 10,000 candidates. 1,60,838 had registered for JEE Advanced 2020 and 1,50,838 appeared, accounting for the organizing institute, IIT Delhi.

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“To address the concerns of the affected candidates, while avoiding prejudice to other candidates…it was decided to allow all the candidates who had successfully registered to appear in JEE Advanced, but were absent in the exam to appear in JEE Advanced 2021 as a one-time major to ensure equal opportunity to all,” IIT Delhi said after a meeting of the joint admission board (JAB) of the IITs.

IIT Delhi is the organizing IIT this year and JAB is the apex body of IITs that takes calls on policy, rules, and regulations related to admissions and selections at IITs.

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This comes days after the National Testing Agency (NTA) agreed to conduct a retest for candidates who could not give the NEET exam in September due to Covid-19. However, authorities have not yet announced a re-exam for those who could not appear for JEE Mains which forms the basis for selecting students to give JEE Advanced. Almost a quarter of JEE Main exam candidates had dropped out from appearing the exam scheduled in the first half of September.

IITs Delhi said initially the JAB thought of giving an extra chance to students who could not give the entrance exam as they were covid-positive, but subsequently decided to bat for equal opportunity for all the absentee candidates this year.

The IITs have also “decided that these candidates will not have to qualify JEE Main 2021, and will be allowed to directly appear in JEE Advanced 2021 on the basis of their successful registration to appear” in JEE Advanced 2020.

This relaxation of existing eligibility criteria will be in addition to the proportionate relaxation of the age criteria and in 2021 these absentee candidates would be considered “in addition to and not as part of the total number of candidates who would qualify from JEE Main 2021 for appearing in JEE Advanced 2021″.

JEE Advanced, conducted for admission to the 23 IITs was held on September 27. Only the top 2.5 lakh candidates in the JEE Main are eligible to write this exam and this year, the number of registrations for JEE Advanced was just 1.6 lakh, a sharp drop from 2019’s record of around 2.24 lakh registrations.

Meanwhile, A day after recording its lowest single-day addition to Covid tally since August 18, India on Tuesday registered a spike of 63,517 cases, taking the total count to 72,39,390, and the death toll reached 110,617.

About 47 percent of the Covid-19 deaths in the country had been recorded among those aged below 60 years, the Centre said on Tuesday, cautioning against any laxity towards taking precautions. It also stated that respiratory diseases escalate in winter.
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The global tally of coronavirus cases stands at 38,347,804. While 28,836,260 have recovered, 1,090,179 have died so far. The US, the worst-hit country, has 8,089,929 cases. It is followed by India, which has 72,39,390 cases, Brazil (5,114,823) and Russia (1,326,178).