New Delhi: Joint Entrance Examination (Advanced) aspirants have approached the Union education ministry and the National Testing Agency, requesting for more time to submit applications.

The IIT Guwahati, which is organising the exams this time, has decided not to extend the registration date beyond May 7.

Student groups across the spectrum have also joined this demand.

The left youth group Students Federation of India (SFI) has written to Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan seeking his intervention in extending the date.

Meanwhile, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh's youth wing Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) met NTA officials, The Hindu has reported.

SFI has alleged to the newspaper that the NTA was not holding examinations in a transparent manner. “The last two days for the submission was Saturday and Sunday and the IIT-Guwahati did not respond to the queries on technical problems," he told Hindu.

SFI has also noted that in previous years, dates for registration had been extended due to student complaints, but this year the deadline was not extended.

SFI believes about 40,000 people were not able to apply for the exams.

The online registration process for the exams which determine the future of engineering students began on April 30.

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