[url=http://indiatoday.intoday.in/site/Story/95712/India/IITs+make+amends+for+errors+in+JEE.html]Clarifications on IIT JEE[/url]
The joint admission board (JAB) of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) on Sunday formulated "corrective measures" to bring order to the chaos that was this year's joint entrance examination (IIT-JEE).
Scores of IIT hopefuls were left aghast when they sat down to write their examination on April 11 as the paper was replete with typographical errors and wrong instructions.
The JAB met in the Capital on Sunday and devised multipronged remedial measures, including scaling up the marks, to put the students' fears to rest.
The measures were then uploaded on the website of the IIT-JEE. The errors in the question papers had led to demands for a re- examination. Human resource development (HRD) minister Kapil Sibal had last week asked the IITs to come up with a remedial action plan within a week to ensure fair evaluation of the entrance papers.
But the JAB ruled out the need for a re- examination, instead formulating a pointby- point remedial action.
For instance, for questions where the subject heads of mathematics and physics were interchanged, each optical response sheet (ORS) both for Paper 1 and Paper 2, will be evaluated in two ways - sequential question number- wise and subject headings-wise.
In each case, the higher score of the two evaluations will be taken as the candidate's score. Should one of the ways of evaluating lead to a mark below the minimum qualifying mark in one of the subjects, the other way will be deemed to be the higher of the two scores.
For papers where there were unreadable questions, the JAB said the affected candidates' ORS will be evaluated omitting the unreadable questions and their scores for the physics section of Paper 1 will then be appropriately scaled.
Also, the instructions on question paper format and marking scheme for section IV in the Hindi version of Paper 2 were wrongly printed. Each question in this section was shown to carry three marks instead of eight.
The JAB decided that each question of this section will be evaluated for eight marks instead of three.
1Don't you think sir this is the best possible method keeping in mind the Interests of sufferers and those who are still clearing JEE and pretty satisfied ? Since we all have been a part of the system so shouldn't they take care of us all ?
A Re-exam might not satisfy all of us . Similarly not having a re-exam is bad for many a persons.
This should be the best way out then . JAB can't be baised for those wanting a re-exam !
You need to comment over this sir !
24IIT bosses have shown their true colrs...........they would never admit their mistake ..
rather..tehy are happy to gift marks to hindi med students........(which too would never happen ..we all know their extra secret policy)
@all
this is jsut the beginning of errors in 2010...just wait till results...wehn many of those who are 101% confident of gettign into iit may be left out becoz if their mad procedure.........
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1yes Eureka you have got a point. No need to be confident of your selection. Who knows whats there in the future ?
The one confident thing i can do is to calculate my marks again and again to keep myself contended.......
