Lengthy mathematics paper perplexed the candidates while physics and chemistry were relatively easy in the Joint Entrance Examination (Main) held on Sunday.
Around 10.2 lakh students appeared for the test in the country but only 2.20 lakh students selected through JEE Main will qualify for JEE Advanced to be held on May 21.
Noted academic Chukka Ramaiah said the paper was lengthy and the questions were not twisted to test the calibre of the students and their thinking capacity. So the scores may be quite high this year. Mathematics paper was lengthy and this forced the students to leave out a few questions.
The test paper had 90 questions for 360 marks and the order of physics, chemistry and mathematics were different in different versions of the booklets. The options given for the questions were also shuffled in various versions. Each subject carried 30 questions. All questions were objective in nature with four choices and there was only one correct response. Each question carried 4 marks for the correct response and -1 for wrong response, representatives of the TIME group said. This year’s paper was “easier” when compared to the previous JEE Main Examinations.
Easy to score
Experts from FIITJEE said there was at least one question from each of the chapters in physics, chemistry and mathematics. Overall the paper was easy and scoring for those who had only focussed on CBSE. Going by students’ response the cut-offs were expected to go high around 115 or above.
In chemistry paper 11 question were from physical, 9 from Inorganic and 10 questions from Organic Chemistry. In mathematics, weightage was given to chapters of Algebra, in particular Probability, which had 3 direct questions. Chapters like Continuity & Differentiability, Statistics (Measures of Dispersion), Mathematical Induction were ignored.
