JEE Advanced SC verdict: Aspirants who dropped out between Nov 5-18 eligible for three attempts under previous JAB order – Newz9

Supreme Court Allows Additional JEE-Advanced Attempt: The Supreme Court has permitted college students who withdrew from faculties between November 5 and November 18, 2024, to seem for the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE)-Advanced three instances, adhering to the Joint Admission Board‘s (जब) earlier notification. This directive comes after the eligibility standards for the examination, which had been expanded to permit three attempts, had been abruptly diminished to 2 inside a span of 13 days.
The case was heard by a bench comprising Justices BR Gavai and Augustine George Masih. Senior advocate Ok. Parameshwar, showing for the petitioners, argued that the JAB’s determination to revise the eligibility standards mid-cycle was arbitrary and left many college students deprived. According to stories from LiveLaw, he emphasised that the preliminary notification from November 5 had promised eligibility to college students from the graduating lessons of 2023, 2024, and 2025, main a number of college students to make life-altering choices primarily based on this assurance.

Abrupt coverage reversal sparks controversy

Parameshwar highlighted cases the place college students, appearing on the JAB’s November 5 notification, had dropped out of their present faculty programs to arrange for JEE-Advanced, solely to seek out themselves excluded from eligibility after the factors had been revised on November 18. “Having held out a promise, they cannot arbitrarily reverse their stance,” he contended, including that no justification was supplied for the sudden change in coverage.

Government defends two-try rule

The Solicitor General of India, Tushar Mehta, representing the JAB, defended the choice to restrict attempts to 2. He argued that permitting three attempts might disrupt tutorial focus for college students who enroll basically engineering faculties however proceed getting ready for IITs. According to him, the revised coverage aimed to reduce tutorial wastage by guaranteeing college students focused on their present programs after two unsuccessful attempts at JEE-Advanced.

Court acknowledges circumstances of coverage change, grants interim reduction for affected college students

Justice Gavai, nevertheless, famous the distinctive circumstances of this 12 months’s notification. The court docket acknowledged that whereas limiting attempts could also be a sound coverage in precept, the abrupt reversal inside 13 days brought about undue hurt to college students who had acted on the sooner notification. “If students have acted on this understanding, the withdrawal cannot be allowed to work to their detriment,” Justice Gavai noticed, LiveLaw reported.
The court docket, balancing the pursuits of scholars and the JAB’s rationale, handed an interim order. It clarified that college students who had withdrawn from faculties between November 5 and November 18, 2024, in reliance on the preliminary notification, could be permitted to register and seem for JEE-Advanced as per the sooner eligibility standards permitting three attempts.