New Delhi: Denied a chance to appear for the IIT-JEE exams because he is visually impaired, an 18-year-old who scored 96 per cent in his Class 12 CBSE has opted to study at Stanford University in the US.
"I would love to pursue my studies in my country, but the depressing guidelines of IIT-JEE last year have made it impossible for blind students to appear in the JEE (joint entrance exam)," Kartik Sawhney, who scored 479 out of 500 in the Class 12 exam conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), told IANS.
Till 2012, blind students were exempted from visual input in JEE and had to attempt only the theory questions. However, a change in regulations disallowed visually impaired students to attempt the theory questions and they were not allowed to use assistive technology.
"The new policy also prescribed a scribe and reader only from humanities or commerce streams. How could he read out complicated mathematical equations from the question paper," Sawhney asked....
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