{"id":28441,"date":"2018-10-24T12:27:15","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T06:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=28441"},"modified":"2018-10-24T12:27:15","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T06:57:15","slug":"the-measure-of-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/the-measure-of-tests\/","title":{"rendered":"The measure of tests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-opinion\/the-measure-of-tests\/article24375326.ece\">The measure of tests<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>News:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Recently, the government announced that the National Testing Agency (NTA) will conduct JEE and NEET exams twice a year from 2019<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Important facts:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>T he Ashok Misra committee set up by the HRD Ministry in 2015 to review the JEE had recommended that an online aptitude test be offered two or more times a year.<\/li>\n<li>The recent decision conduct both JEE (Main) and NEET twice a year is consistent with the advice.<\/li>\n<li>It is an important step towards achieving a transparent, accessible and fair testing process based on aptitude and suitability of the student.<\/li>\n<li>Challenges:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Computer-Based test might turn into a barrier for rural students-<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>shortcomings due to poor school education system in rural areas<\/li>\n<li>Might create an additional financial burden on students for taking preparations<\/li>\n<li>Cost of travelling to testing centre<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"5\">\n<li>Measures to be taken:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>Proper planning and allocation of adequate funds<\/li>\n<li>Regulation of coaching institutes to curb exploitation of students<\/li>\n<li>Improving school education for better learning outcomes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The measure of tests News: Recently, the government announced that the National Testing Agency (NTA) will conduct JEE and NEET exams twice a year from 2019 Important facts: T he Ashok Misra committee set up by the HRD Ministry in 2015 to review the JEE had recommended that an online aptitude test be offered two&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/the-measure-of-tests\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The measure of tests<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704601632},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}