Chennai: Students from both CBSE and state board found the second phase of IIT entrance exam, JEE (advanced) question papers tough this year. All over the country 1.50 lakh students appeared for the IIT JEE (advanced) examination with over 33,000 from the IIT Madras zone appearing. IIT Madras zone includes Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, Kerala, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Telengana.
Over 4,000 students wrote the exam from Chennai, Madurai and Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu. JEE advanced exam consist of two papers, with paper one held in the morning and paper two in the afternoon.
Dharmkumar from Pattukottai is from the state board who secured 71 marks in JEE Main exam. He said he found both papers tough in JEE (advanced) exam. Paper one was more problem-oriented and two was diagrams-oriented.
Both the papers had maths, physics and chemistry questions for 186 marks. These questions also had negative marks for the wrong answers. Bharath Venkateswaran from Chennai, a CBSE class 12 topper, said this exam is neither too easy not very tough. He said the marking scheme this year was bit relaxed as partially correct answers had plus marks.
“In a scenario of multiple correct answers if the student had got one answer wrong, then he would get negative marks for the whole question. This year the marking scheme is such he would get plus marks for the right answers too,” he said.
For example, if the correct answer is ‘a, b and c’, if the student marks only ‘a, b’ he would get plus one mark. As per the earlier system he would get negative marks for the question. “In paper one and two the maths problems are lengthy. It was time consuming. But the relaxed marking scheme reduced our tension,” said Ajish Sekar, who is a school national rank holder.
Students said this year the level of difficulty was very high. “The difficulty of JEE main exam was on par with CBSE exams. The problems in advance examwere difficult to solve,” a student said.
Many students also found JEE coaching helpful. Ashwin, a state board student from Gudiyattam, said most of the problems were not familiar to state board students. IIT Madras JEE Chairman G. Markandeyulu said, “The JEE exam in the zone was mostly incident free.” The JEE advanced exam results will be declared on June 12.
