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Paper setters to receive training from NTA
June 25 , 2018
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- Union Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD) has announced that National Testing Agency (NTA) will train paper setters to set better question papers and provide better model answers.
- NTA was set up to relieve Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) and other educational regulator bodies from the burden of conducting multiple examinations.
- It will take over all examinations from the CBSE (except the 10th and 12th board examinations) from 2019 in a phased
- It will be also conducting prestigious
- Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) and
- National Eligibility Cum Entrance Test (NEET) - except AIIMS and JIPMER, Puducherry.
National Testing Agency (NTA)
- NTA was approved by Union cabinet in November 2017 as an autonomous and self-sustained premier testing organization to conduct entrance examinations for higher educational institutions in India.
- It is registered as a society under Indian Societies Registration Act, 1860.
- It mandates is to conduct entrance tests entrusted to it by any department or ministry and put in place a robust system for conducting of examinations.
- It is chaired by eminent educationist appointed by Ministry of HRD. Its CEO will be Director General (DG) appointed by Government.
- Besides, it has Board of Governors comprising members from user institutions.
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