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IIT students will create modules on various topics to help aspirants clear JEE Examination for these prestigious institutes.
New Delhi: To reduce the influence of coaching centres, the HRD ministry has planned an out of the box strategy as part of which IIT students will create modules on various topics to help aspirants clear the fiercely competitive JEE entrance examination for these prestigious institutes.
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| The move is to reduce pressure on students. (Representational Image) |
New Delhi: To reduce the influence of coaching centres, the HRD ministry has planned an out of the box strategy as part of which IIT students will create modules on various topics to help aspirants clear the fiercely competitive JEE entrance examination for these prestigious institutes.
The Smriti Irani-led ministry is working on a plan to create an
IIT-Pal app which would have free high-quality study material in 11 languages
including English, Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Odiya, Kannada, Malyalam,
Marathi, Gujarati and Punjabi.
"The
material needs to be of the best quality and should cover the syllabus of
Physics, Chemistry and Maths in detail. The plan is to invite volunteers from
among 2nd year IITstudents,
who under the guidance of an anchor professor will prepare various
topics," senior HRD officials told.
They said
there are around 150 major topics required for preparation for IIT entrance
exam.
IIT
students will be invited to prepare notes on how best to teach the concept to
aspirants and, on the basis of this exercise, winning entries will be chosen.
One IIT-PAL team will be selected for each topic.
"The
idea is to utilise the talent and enthusiasm of those who have already been
there and done that. To ensure that there is some healthy competition and
students are rewarded for their efforts, teams whose content on various topics
is chosen may be given an honorarium of up to Rs 1 lakh each," sources
said.
To ensure
that all children, especially those from less nprivileged backgrounds, do not
face obstacles due to lack of proper guidance, the ministry is also considering
setting up a help centre, which will have toll free number, where teaching
assistants identified by each IIT will answer queries from aspirants.
Earlier
this month, Irani had referred to the "menace of the coaching
industry" and said that one of the biggest pressures on students preparing
for IIT entrance examination is to seek outside help in preparation.
"That
is why the government has decided to dedicate in the forthcoming two months an
IIT-Pal portal and mobile app on which 50 years of IIT (entrance) examination
papers will be available free of cost," Irani had announced.
The
material will not only be available on the IIT-Pal app, web portal but also on
SWAYAM, the HRD ministry's Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) platform,
officials said.
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