First it was IIT Kanpur, then it was IIT Delhi. There are indications that other IITs will also chart their own course and go in for separate entrance examinations, putting a question mark on the single engineering entrance test proposed by the ministry of human resource development. IIT-JEE has always been one of the biggest attractions for students — irrespective of region, financial status and the schools they study in. Guided by nothing but merit, it gave the students equal opportunity.