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IITs surprise aspirants in JEE Advanced
IITs surprise aspirants in JEE Advanced. By giving a number of totally unanticipated questions in the latest JEE Advanced exam, the IITs- perhaps after several years, have regained their original form. The IITs have proved that they can surprise or deal a blow, according to experts.
Hyderabad: By giving a number of totally unanticipated questions in the latest JEE Advanced exam, the IITs- perhaps after several years, have regained their original form. The IITs have proved that they can surprise or deal a blow, according to experts.
However, news channels on Monday carried out a news item stating that the Joint Admission Board (JAB) of IIT has decided not to cut marks for wrong answers i.e. there will be no negative marking- in paper-I. On the surface it may appear as sweet news but in reality it is not so, experts said. This was balanced out by setting an easier paper-II, but with negative marks.
One of the sections in paper I- which is for 20 marks, was thought to carry negative marks. While ten questions, each carrying one mark, were given integer-type, the remaining ten questions have more than one option. One cannot expect negative marking in this section as it is impossible to guess the answers.
Students felt paper-I to be highly tough, tricky and rather lengthy. Paper-II was somewhat easy, students opine.
Experts were of the opinion that the no negative marking in paper-I was floated unnecessarily. “Those who ignore practicing integer type questions in mock tests and preparation will definitely lose. That’s the message,” Dr Krishna Chaitanya of Nano Academy explained.
Since paper-II contains both single option as well as multiple option questions, students will resort to some guessing and naturally the negative marking applies, according to VV Subrahmanyam, an expert in IIT coaching. “No negative mark in paper I will result in fewer candidates scoring above the 35 per cent cut-off for IIT admissions compared to last year. However, students who did not go through the guidelines carefully may have ended by losing marks opting not to answer questions they are not sure of the answers,” a report said.
Most candidates found the chemistry section in paper-I the toughest among all the sections.
Even a report of JEE Advanced 2013 analysed that the negative marking was not that much enforced in the valuation.
“In paper-I, each part had three sections. Section-I had 10 multiple choice questions each having one correct answer with maximum of two marks with no negative marks for incorrect answer; Section-II had five multiple choice questions each having one or more correct answer(s) with maximum of four marks and for incorrect answer -one mark; Section-III had five integer answer type questions each having maximum of four marks and for incorrect answer - one mark. A candidate could have scored anything between 30 to 180 in paper-1, and between 60 to 180 in paper-II. That is, marks of a candidate might have taken any value between 90 to 360, with the minimum and maximum possible marks in each subject being 30 and 120, respectively,” the report has clarified.
