A common entrance exam will help students and parents save money that they otherwise have to spend on purchasing application forms and prospectus of various engineering colleges.
As per this proposal, the exam would be called the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) and would be made up of two parts, JEE-Main[9] and JEE-Advanced.
For IITs, an average of the marks from Class XII Board exams and JEE-Main would be used for screening, allowing only a fixed number of candidates to be considered for admission.
Two of the IITs have voiced strong objections to the common examination, and have announced that if the change takes place, they will conduct their admittance exams.
[10] In August 2022, UGC Chairperson M. Jagadesh Kumar spoke about UGC's proposal to merge JEE Main, NEET into CUET as per NEP 2020 while being silent on JEE Advanced,[11] this has led to an outcry among students but Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan later clarified that merger will not happen in next 2 years.