The main reason that I would like to draw your attention to is the lack or total absence of a good educational system in the Bihar and Jharkhand Intermediate Council. We have lecturers in the colleges (+12 is associated with colleges in the intermediate system) who don't teach. They get a salary of Rs. 12,000 - 18,000 but hardly show their faces to the students. Take for example the Patna Science College. There was a time when this used to be one of the best science colleges in the country. What is left now is a complete mess. These schools and colleges can't even prepare their students for the usual +12 exam leave alone IIT entrance. If this is the state of the colleges in cities one can imagine the state of affairs of those in small towns.

A students when carves his way out from such bad educational environment needs time to get their basics of the subject. One year is the minimum that could be expected from students from villages and small town to finish the whole syllabus just once. Then they have to practice more and get a good understanding. Being an IIT graduate myself I would
suggest that a laborious, better-than-average student should have at least two chances after +12. Alas! the new system permits only one chance. The logic they give for this is beyond my comprehension. They say it would reduce exam stress and would deter the spread and influence of coaching institutes. Would it? In my opinion it would rather increase exam stress as there is only one shot left after +12 and in no way would be able to stop the Coaching Institutes exploit the students.

The most basic question is "exactly what the problem is that we are trying to solve". Is it the examination process that was so wrong that we need such a drastic change or the spread of coaching institutes? Most of the people that are familiar with the IIT Joint Entrance Exam would agree that it has possibly been the best way to select students for IIT.
Minor changes in due course are but natural in the process. As far as the mushrooming of coaching institutes is concerned, such a step would only encourage their demand in +12 and even in 10th standard. So, what the new system might be intending to do could just be described as the cure of a patient not the disease. What is ailing the education system is not the coaching institutes but the lackadaisical attitude of the government, teachers and worst of all the students and their parents. No one wants to raise his or her voice and complain or fight for our very basic right.

The other big change is the eligibility criteria of 60%. It is relatively easy to get 60% in CBSE and ICSE boards for any average student. But in Bihar and Jharkhand intermediate exams, given they are held fair and no large scale rigging takes place, it is really difficult. So we should not have the same criteria for all the boards. The JEE in itself is the best judge, why keep an eligibility criteria that would work against the underprivileged students.