Errors of IIT-JEE Question Papers Won’t Affect Evaluation: Authorities
With many types of errors coming to fore in the IIT-JEE question papers, the organizers have assured candidates that these errors would not have a bearing on the evaluation asking them not to panic, said media reports.
“There are certain minor mistakes in the papers here and there. But I can assure the candidates that these mistakes will not affect their performance. They will be taken care of during evaluation of papers,” IIT-JEE organising chairman Prof T S Natarajan was quoted as saying.
Natarajan said that question papers had a few printing mistakes, citing examples that papers carried a printing error as subject-heads of mathematics and physics were interchanged, reports said.
In addition, the Hindi version of the papers had errors in instructions. While the English version of the paper said that certain questions carried 48 marks, the Hindi version said that they carried 18 marks. Moreover, some questions were not printed in the Hindi version.
“All efforts will be taken to ensure that such printing mistakes do not occur in future,” Natarajan was quoted as saying.
Prof Rajiv Kumar of IIT Kharagpur had cited these errors in the IIT-JEE held on Sunday and also said that the papers carried certain questions having more than one correct answer which could prove disadvantageous to serious examinees.
Natarajan, however, said that the answer of a student would be rejected if he darkens all bubbles, said reports.
“Even if a student darkens the wrong answer along with some other right answer, his answer will be rejected,” he was quoted as saying.
A total of 4.7 lakh candidates appeared in the test.
(Based on media reports)
