JEE (Advanced) Scores out: New pattern affects marks

Most of the students who appeared for the JEE (advanced) examinations on June 2 were left disappointed with the low scores that were declared by IIT on their website on Thursday evening. The students will now have to wait till June 23 for their actual rankings.

Only around 5,000 of the 1.5 lakh students who took the JEE (advanced) would make it to the premier IITs.

The marking system this year had changed the pattern with five out of six sections having negative marking. Students and experts had found the maths section to be most difficult as compared to past years.

Majority of the students have found their scores to be lower than the figures that they had calculated using answer keys provided by coaching institutes after the exam.

Surprisingly, some of the students were not even aware that the scores had been declared. Pradyot Prakash, one of the top scorers of IIT-Mains (322), secured 287 in advanced exam, maintaining his position to be one of the highest in the city. Prakash said he scored four marks less than what he had calculated. "There were about five to six questions in maths and physics in which answers provided by coaching institutes differed from what IITs declared. These questions involved choosing two options as correct answer," he said.

Bhavesh Singh who had scored 154 in the Mains, got 118 as against his expected score of 140. Though he had found the chemistry section to be the toughest, he, like several others, have scored the least in the maths section. "The paper was quite lengthy. I had attempted 31 questions out of 40 in the maths section despite the negative marking," he said.

Experts had predicted low scores on average. With the cut-off score pegged around 126, Chandan Dikshit of Rao IIT Academy, said, "We can't expect more than 15-16000 ranks this year as compared to the 18,000 ranks last year."

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