Errors in IITJEE 2011 Paper Confirmed by IIT Professor

The math question papers in the 2011 entrance examination of the Indian Institutes of Technology last Sunday had multiple errors that could shatter dreams of deserving candidates, a veteran IIT mathematician has confirmed. One of the country’s most highly regarded mathematicians, Professor KD Joshi of IIT Bombay told HT he has found over 10 marks-worth of errors in this year’s math papers in the IIT Joint Entrance Examination

The errors range from logically inconsistent questions to problems where students had to mark only one correct answer when more than one of the multiple-choice options were correct, said Joshi, who has analysed IIT-JEE papers since 2003.

“The worst part is that there is nothing the IITs can do about some of the errors. And they could decide whether a student makes it to the IITs or not,” said Joshi, currently on assignment at the new IIT Indore. Joshi will formally release his analysis of the JEE question papers soon.

Joshi is the first from within the IIT system to confirm errors in the papers. Some coaching classes had claimed on April 10, the day of the IIT-JEE, that the paper had errors. Though the IITs set up a panel to probe errors, they said they had not received any complaints.

Though coaching classes in previous years too have raised concerns regarding the IIT-JEE, the apex engineering schools often dismiss these concerns — questioning their expertise and motive. Greater student confusion benefits the coaching class business, IITs argue.

Joshi’s analysis, IIT officials accepted, will be harder to ignore. “Some of the errors are ironically such that they will hurt the most diligent students the most,” Joshi said.

Just 85 marks in maths separated the first ranker and the last general candidate — over 6,000 ranks below — admitted to the IITs last year.

Source: HT

Stay on IITJEE 2010 Results...

The Delhi High Court has admitted a public interest litigation of a non-governmental organisation (NGO) that has sought stay on the declaration of result of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) entrance exam held April 11.

Raising the issue of errors in the instructions for examinees who took the IIT joint entrance examination (IIT-JEE) in Hindi, the NGO, Satya Foundation, filed the public interest litigation (PIL) on April 25, which was heard Thursday.

Chetan Upadhyaya, secretary and counsel of Satya Foundation, Thursday submitted before the court a list of serious blunders in the IIT JEE-2010 and said that instead of accepting the faults and re-conducting the examination, the Joint Admission Board was trying to cover up the issue with “corrective measures” which are “totally illogical and can’t be digested by anybody”.

The IIT-JEE board evolved corrective measures May 2 to ensure that genuine candidates were not affected by the examination errors. It formulated a point-by-point remedial action and posted the same on the IIT-JEE website May 2, it said.

But the petitioner demanded an interim stay on the publication of results till the pendency of the petition and also that the examination be reconducted.

The two-judge bench of Acting Chief Justice Madan B. Lokur and Ms. Justice Mukta Gupta, admitting the petition clubbed it along with the earlier petition filed by Rajeev Kumar, a professor at IIT Kharagpur through his legal counsel Prashant Bhushan April 7 for overall transparency in the IIT-JEE system.

Both the PILs will be heared before the court May 19.

The results of IIT-JEE-2010 are expected to be declared by May 26.

Chetan Upadhyaya expressed his strong disagreement before the court for clubbing the two PILs.

“These are two different issues, my PIL is about errors in the Hindi version of question paper of the IIT-JEE 2010 while Dr Rajeev Kumar’s PIL is about overall transparency in the IIT,” Upadhyaya said.

Anand Kumar, director-cum-founder of Super 30, told IANS over phone from Patna that the corrective steps taken up by the IIT-JEE could not bring justice to the Hindi medium student.

“The corrective measures taken by IIT-JEE can in no way provide justice to the students who opted for the Hindi medium question paper. The only solution is to re-conduct the examination,” Anand Kumar told IANS.

Chetan Upadhyaya said he has full faith in the judiciary and justice will be done.

“I have full faith in the judiciary, I am sure the court will do justice to the thousands of Hindi medium students in the next hearing May 19,” Upadhyaya told IANS.

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Kapil Sibal takes up IIT Madras director on JEE errors

HRD minister Kapil Sibal is believed to have pulled up MS Ananth, director of IIT Madras, for the mistakes in the recent Joint Entrance Examination taken by 4.45 lakh students.

Sources said Sibal asked Ananth, who met him on Monday, as to how such mistakes took place in a prestigious entrance examination for IITs and other premier engineering institutions. Sibal is believed to have asked IIT directors to ensure students do not suffer.

Ananth, who was accompanied by Gautam Barua, director, IIT of Guwahati, told Sibal that a statement would be put on IIT-JEE website on May 2 explaining steps that have been taken to deal with the mistakes. "Re-examination has been ruled out since no question was not leaked," a senior official said.




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IITJEE 2010 Minor Errors And Tricky Questions Left Students Worked Up

The Indian Institute of Technology Joint Entrance Test (IIT-JEE) that took place on Sunday left many students worked up due to difficult mathematics questions as well as minor errors in the question paper. Many students complained that the mathematics questions in the paper were not only difficult and lengthy but were also much above the level of math taught by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE). Another thing that got students anxious was the mismatched order of sections in the question paper and the OMR answer sheet. Due to the printing error, the subject heads of mathematics and physics were interchanged in the question paper and the answer sheet. What added to the complications was that all three subjects, namely, Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics had exactly 28 questions. The IIT authorities realized the error as students throughout the country complained of it and advised them to ignore the subject headings and answer according to the serial numbers, which were the same in thequestion paper and the answer sheet. Students who gave the Hindi version of Paper I of the test complained that a question in one of the 10 codes was not printed. An official statement was later released by JEE authorities that the students would not be made to suffer for the errors in the paper. The Director of IIT-Delhi, Mr. Surendra Prasad said, "Apart from these minor error, the examination passed off smoothly and there were no other complaints." Check the detailed IITJEE 2010 Solutions Here Check the IITJEE 2010 Cutoff Here

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 IIT-JEE 2010 paper was held all across the country on 11th April 2010. Get the solutions to IIT-JEE 2010 from all the leading coaching institutes right here on this website. The complete solutions along 
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