Chennai: The awarding of bonus marks in JEE (Advanced) exam has reduced the gap between the top performing and average students this year, according to experts. “IITs have given 18 marks as bonus to all students due to the ambiguous questions in JEE exam,” said Ankur Jain, head, FIITJEE Chennai Centre. “The really intelligent students will fight with the problems and give the best possible answer. The good students are not beneficiaries of these bonus marks. They are victims of these marks,” he said. “The beneficiaries are the average and below average students,” he added.
A student who expected a rank among top 100 is disappointed with the award of bonus marks as he could not get into top 100 ranks. “There were printing errors in some question series. In my question set, there was no error and these questions were difficult to answer. The award of bonus marks has affected my ranking,” he said. “I wanted to join B.Tech. computer science in IIT Bombay. But now, I got the rank above 100, I cannot join there,” he rued.
