Google pitches Gemini to students studying for India’s most competitive college entrance exam

Google is expanding its propulsion into AI-powered learning by adding full-length signifier tests successful Gemini for the Joint Entrance Exam (JEE), India’s nationwide engineering exam utilized to shortlist candidates for the country’s apical method institutes and taken by millions of students each year.

Google said students tin instrumentality full-length mock exams for the JEE wrong Gemini, which volition connection questions based connected vetted contented from Indian acquisition firms PhysicsWallah and Careers360.

The motorboat comes aft the institution recently rolled retired akin test-prep tools for the SAT.

Once students implicit a mock trial successful Gemini, Google said the chatbot volition supply contiguous feedback, highlighting areas of spot and wherever further survey is needed. It tin besides explicate close answers and assistance students make a customized survey program based connected their performance, the institution said.

The motorboat of signifier tests successful Gemini signals a broader propulsion to presumption the chatbot arsenic a instrumentality for structured exam mentation alternatively than a shortcut to answers.

In summation to Gemini, Google said the JEE Main mentation tools volition rotation retired to AI Mode successful Search, including the Canvas tool, which allows students to physique survey guides and interactive quizzes by attaching their people notes.

Google claims Indian students are utilizing Gemini to survey subjects ranging from precocious physics to broader STEM topics, arsenic good arsenic NotebookLM for turning survey materials into quizzes, flashcards and audio oregon video summaries. Google’s AI tools are disposable successful aggregate Indian languages.

Google said it is besides expanding its absorption connected Indian educators, and plans to enactment with authorities agencies connected a nationwide programme to assistance teachers and enactment unit usage AI for administrative enactment and acquisition design.

The institution said it is partnering with the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, and Chaudhary Charan Singh University connected a aviator to physique an “AI-enabled authorities university.” The task aims to make a nationalist model for applying AI crossed vocational and higher education, encompassing teaching and pupil support, arsenic good arsenic administrative operations.

Additionally, the institution said its charitable arm, Google.org, is backing Wadhwani AI with an ₹850 cardinal (about $10 million) assistance to integrate AI into government-run acquisition platforms. The inaugural targets systems specified arsenic nationalist online learning portals and authorities acquisition platforms, aiming to marque them much adaptable and trim administrative burdens for educators.

The programme spans pre-school done higher education, and includes tools specified arsenic voice-based speechmaking enactment successful aggregate Indian languages, and AI-powered English learning coaches. The institution claims it has already reached astir 10 cardinal learners and educators, and aims to standard to 75 cardinal students, 1.8 cardinal educators, and a cardinal early-career professionals by the extremity of 2027.