For many students vying for seats in premium engineering colleges, the joint entrance examination (JEE) of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) this year was a cakewalk.
For many students vying for seats in premium engineering colleges, the joint entrance examination (JEE) of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) this year was a cakewalk. But the confusion over marking has become a concern for them.
“Although the papers were not tough, they were a little lengthy,” said Divya Aishwaraya, a student who appeared for the JEE on Sunday.
At least 4.72 lakh students from across the country appeared for the IIT-JEE this year. “Over 80,000 students took the exam from the IIT-Bombay zone, of which 12,500 were from Mumbai and Navi Mumbai,” said Anil Kumar, IIT-Bombay chairman, JEE 2010.
The exam was conducted at 1,026 centres. The students qualifying the test will be eligible for admission to BTech programmes in 15 IITs, ISM Dhanbad and IT-BHU institutes offering over 10,000 seats.
There were two papers of three hours each and had three sections on physics, chemistry and math. “The main issue was the marking system in paper-II,” said Prathyash Thomas, another student. “The single correct choice-type questions (six questions) carried +5 for correct answer and -2 for wrong answer. Previously, negative marking used to be -1.”
“The subjective-type questions on single-digit integer in paper-II were very time-consuming,” said Aishwaraya.
The math sections in both papers were difficult compared to the other sections, students claimed.
“Questions were balanced in paper-I,” said Rajini Kumar, centre head of FIITJEE (Mumbai). “Though some questions looked simple, they were fundamental based. Students who were not clear in their basics would have made mistakes.”
This year, paper-I had 84 questions, while paper-II had 57 questions. “Each subject in paper-I had 28 questions and the pattern was the same for all the subjects. All questions carried three marks. The maximum mark is 252,” said Ajay Antony, course director (IIT-JEE) TIME.
“In paper-II, each subject had 19 questions for 79 marks. The maximum mark in the second paper is 237.” Last year, the total marks were 240 for both papers and the number of questions in each paper was 60.
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