Hyderabad: Students who appeared for JEE (Advanced) on Sunday were shocked to see tough question papers in Part-II in the noon session. The relief they felt at seeing the comparatively easy question papers in Part I was wiped out as they struggled to solve the questions in Part II. Even those who had been preparing for the IIT entrance exams since the last couple of years and faced many mock tests were in for a rude shock and left many questions unanswered.
“There was a huge variation in the format and also the quality of questions. They were somewhat lengthy and tougher. There wasn’t enough time to answer the questions in maths and physics,” said P. Avinash, who took the test at HPS-Ramanthapur. According to subject experts, chemistry and physics papers in the noon session are likely to play the deciding factor compared to the morning session papers. The Paper- I was held from 9 am to 12 noon and Paper-II from 2 pm to 5 pm.
The two papers of three-hour duration consisted of three separate sections on chemistry, physics and mathematics. However, some students had a different version to tell. “I found maths to be easy in both the sessions. physics and chemistry were tougher in noon session than the morning session,” said K.Tanvi, who appeared for the test.
Interestingly, IIT trainers opined that morning session papers were comparatively tougher from the teachers point of view over noon session papers. Sivaramakrishna of Sri Chaitanya Colleges said that chemistry and Physics papers of the morning session would have an impact on the scores. He said all the three papers had 20 questions each both in the morning and evening sessions and the total marks were 360 with each question carrying three marks. The morning session did not have any negative marks, while the second session papers had three marks for the right answer and one negative mark for the wrong answer.
Kondala Rao of IIT Narayana Academy said physics and chemistry papers of the morning session were tough compared to the evening papers. However, mathematics was easy in both the sessions. “The quality of the paper was on par with the IITs’ reputation,” he said. Each paper had nine codes and it meant the same question paper was set in nine different types with questions jumbled.
Only 16,000 candidates from the state appeared for the JEE Advanced though 21,818 candidates were declared eligible in the JEE (Main) as the rest have opted for other technical institutes like NIT, IIIT and other central institutes. The results will be declared on June 19.
