JEE Advanced 2023: Delhi High Court to hear plea for exemption for students next month

New Delhi (IANS) | The Central Government on Thursday informed the Delhi High Court that it has replied to the notice on a petition seeking exemption for students appearing for JEE Advanced 2023. A bench of Justice Purushendra Kumar Kaurav, hearing a petition filed by 67 students, said the Centre’s reply was not on record and directed it to do so. He has also given a week’s time to the petitioners to file a reply.

Also directed that the reply be placed on record and listed the matter for further hearing on April 16. The court had on March 7 issued notice to the Center and other respondents and sought their reply within two weeks.

The applicants have urged that it be made possible for them to re-appear in the engineering entrance exam as both the JEE Main 2022 sessions held in June and July last year were plagued by technical issues. These errors prevented the candidates from performing well in the examination, leading to a significant reduction in the score and percentile of many candidates.

Last year, there were several technical issues with the JEE exam, including frequent computer crashes, screen freezing for several minutes, loading time taken too long, incomplete questions and more.

Some students claimed that they were unable to take the exam as their centers were changed suddenly without any notice. Some of the candidates faced mistakes in their results as well as differences in their response sheets.

Students had faced similar technical issues during JEE Advanced 2022. This was their last attempt for many students who faced technical difficulties.

This was the last JEE Main exam for students graduating from class 12 in 2020, and the last JEE Advanced attempt for students graduating from class 12 in 2021.

–IANS