Ahmedabad: 45% of candidates from Gujarat did not appear in the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) (JEE) for admission to engineering and pharmacy courses that began on Tuesday amid the Coronavirus epidemic. A senior official said that the percentage of students who had left the examination used to be 25-30 percent before that and currently it has increased by 10-15 percent. The state government said on Monday that 38,167 students had registered for the examination being conducted by the National Examinations Agency in 32 centers in 13 districts between September 1-6.
JEE Coordinator in Gujarat Virender Rawat said, “On the first day, out of 3,020 registered students, only 1,664, i.e. 55 percent, appeared, while 1,356 (45 percent) did not appear for the exam. Generally, 25–30 percent of students leave the exam every year. This year the figure is more than 10-15. On Monday, Gujarat Education Minister Bhupendra Singh had said that the administration would conduct the examination after taking all precautions in the wake of the Covid-19 epidemic.
