India, Jan. 8 -- The MTech and PhD courses in the prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are set to be revamped following a meeting of the IIT Council, with officials claiming that opportunities being offered by these programmes are underutilised. The IIT Council, the apex coordination body of the 23 premier engineering institutes, took the decision in their meeting in August last year, after a gap of over two years.

In a move aimed at making the JEE Advanced exam "a better and less stressful assessment," the IIT Council also recommended exploring the possibility of making the test adaptive, where questions are dynamically generated and adjusted in real-time depending on the candidate's ability.

The council discussed the imp...