Dear MEL Topic Readers,
JEE: India holds crucial college exam amid Covid-19 fears
The Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) is an engineering entrance
examination conducted for admission to various engineering colleges in India.
Since the vast majority of India’s college students major in science/engineering
fields, this national exam seems to be the equivalent of China’s National
College Entrance Examination (NCEE), commonly known as Gaokao. This life-determining
event took place between Sep.1 and 6 despite the protest by exam takers who worried
about being infected by coronavirus on the way to or at the exam sites. Of
course. Once they are infected, they could carry the infection home and pass
the virus to their loved ones who are more vulnerable than them. The appeal was
taken to even the supreme court but was declined. How many infections could have
made during the 6-day exam period?
To your surprise, another highly competitive national entrance exams
for medical schools, the NEET (The National Eligibility cum Entrance Test), is
also going to take place on the 13th.
Will the National Testing Agency have enough time and encouragement to
assess how effective the elaborate safety measures they took at JEE?
It indeed sounds like a life-time event.
Read the article and learn what brings India’s scientific ingenuity to
the world-leading level.
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