Approach A: There are three components in this common procedure:
- Increased weight age of school system (makes sense, as school is the place where overall personality can be developed with participation is public speaking, sports, projects and so on). This part is most challenging from implementation perspective due to the variations present whose resolution may include changes in educational system in certain aspects.
- An aptitude test somewhat on the lines of SAT. This test can be called NAT or something else. This may be a non C/M/P type of test.
- An advanced level entrance test in C/M/P. This test can be called ANAT (advanced NAT) or JEE or anything else and can be conducted by IIT/CBSE or any other body.
Medical subjects can also be added and the same applies to specialised tests like that of architecture.
- Increased weight age of school system. As mention earlier, this part is most challenging from implementation perspective.
- A test in C/M/P/General Aptitude. This test can be called NAT/JEE or something else and can be conducted by IIT/CBSE or any other body and is to be conducted in later part of 12th or after 12th.
Other subjects can also be added if required.
*An alternate approach to using secure computer network based testing would be to conduct test(s) 2 to 3 times with some space in between in which case there will be operational challenges considering very large number of students appearing for these tests. Moreover, if the tests are objective in nature, they can be conducted very efficiently using computer network.
