Maths tough, rest easy: JEE aspirants

Nearly 8,000 students from Ahmedabad, who took the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Mains exams, 2019, found the Mathematics section to be difficult.

This year, JEE Mains was conducted by the National Testing Agency and not the Central Board of Secondary Education. The examination which started on January 6 across the country, concluded in Gujarat on Saturday whereas it will be held in other states till January 16.

Speaking about the paper, a student of a CBSE school requesting anonymity said, "I appeared for paper 1 which was quite lengthy. Many friends of mine could not finish the paper."

Another student found the Mathematics section to be very tough.

She said, "Physics and Chemistry were from the NCERT books. I found Maths to be very difficult. Especially, the geometry part."

Another aspirant said while paper 1 was lengthy, paper 2 was average. It was not very difficult nor it was very easy.

Nearly 35,000 students took the examination, which was conducted online this year, from Gujarat.

JEE enables candidates seeking admissions in undergraduate engineering programmes in the prestigious IITs, NITs, IIITs and various other centrally-funded technical institutions across the country.