The Joint Admission Board (JAB) of IIT has reformatted the JEE for 2006, and wishes to incorporate changes every three years in order to (i) deciminate the coaching centres and (ii) orient the students for their 10+2 education. However, the JAB has no control over the quality of 10+2 teaching in different parts of India. When I appeared JEE I didn't join a coaching centre, because the teachers at Intermediate level were top class and did not consult just a single prescribed book to teach maths, physics and chemistry. However, such dedicated teaching is no more there to encourage students for self study. Students go to coaching centres, say in Hyderabad, because the entire +2 course is taught in just three months and in a superb style. Thereafter, the students are taught to develop analytical minds to solve problems. The JAB need to include the heads of some coaching centres to understand how they shape the students and how they solve JEE problems which cann't be solved by even IIT teaching staff (with apology to them). Therefore, my appeal is not dilute the IIT system which has brought us laurels at home and abroad. Dr. K. Mallick
