New Delhi: The Joint Entrance Examination (JEE), conducted by the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) is all set for a makeover. The move is aimed to bring out the best of analytical minds.

Speaking on the proposed development, an IIT director says "We are looking for innate analytical abilities rather than people who have access or the money to go through the intensive system".

The JEE is considered to be one of the toughest entrance examinations in the world with more than 60-70 aspirants vying for each of the 5,000-odd seats.

The competition is so intense that many coaching institutes, and indeed entire towns like Kota, specialize in training people to pass this test. This is a trend that clearly worried the wise old men at IIT, "Says an IIT director.

Many faculties feel that the only way to do this is to keep varying the nature of the question papers in physics, chemistry and Maths- the three components of JEE test.

The new selection process would make sure that students from even poor areas make it to the short listing stage as it would employ random nature of questions to evaluate students.

"We have had to make the procedure much simpler because we thought the earlier system was a little too complicated to be explained to the general public," elaborates a source at IIT.

The move is seen as a shift from IITs earlier practice of coming up with a statistical method to generate a merit list of students, whereby depending on the number of seats available, the scores in each subject are evaluated in the form of a Bell Curve. The curve is so called as it looks like a bell and has all the average scores in the centre while extremely good and unusually bad scores are at the right and left extremities, respectively.