IIT panel admits to mistakes in question paper

April 15, 2010 - PRLog -- Mistakes would not affect evaluation, the organizers said. “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,” T S Natarajan, chairperson of IIT-JEE organizing committee, said.

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There were a few printing errors in the question papers. He admitted the papers carried a printing error as subject-heads of mathematics and physics were interchanged. The Hindi version of the papers also carried wrong instructions. As per the English version of the paper, there were certain questions carrying 48 marks. However, the Hindi versions presented the same questions with wrong instruction that they carried 18 marks. Besides, certain questions were not printed in the Hindi version. “All efforts will be made to ensure that such printing mistakes do not occur in future,” .

Mistakes were pointed out by Rajiv Kumar of IITKharagpur, who said paper I had 28 questions each in maths, physics and chemistry, of three marks each, divided into four sections.

Section II had five questions of three marks each, one or more correct answers (partial marking) with no negative marking for incorrect answer. Kumar said if some candidate darkened all bubbles then he could deserve full credits.
Failing The Test?

IIT-JEE organizing committee admits mistakes but asks students not to panic
Committee chairperson T S Natarajan says there were a few printing errors in question papers

“All efforts will be made to ensure that such printing mistakes do not occur in future,” Natarajan says Mistakes were pointed out by Prof Rajiv Kumar of IIT-Kharagpur.

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