On Sunday — a day after the announcement of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) results — students across the city took the Joint Engineering Entrance (Advanced) examination.
An official from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras said that in Chennai 2,502 candidates had registered for the JEE (Advanced) examination after qualifying in the JEE (Mains).
Separate sessions
The candidates appearing for the examination had to attempt the Part 1 and Part 2 components which covered physics, chemistry and mathematics in separate morning and afternoon sessions.
“Many of us found the physics component extremely tough and challenging and of the subjects, chemistry was the easiest for all of us who attempted the exam,” said R. Anirudh, a student.
The tough bits
Pavan Kumar, centre head of FIIT-JEE, said that while the mathematics questions in the part I component was challenging, he had received feedback from the students that the physics questions in the part II component had been tricky.
“We, however, expected a level of difficulty in the advanced papers as last year too, a few questions were challenging. Students this year, however, stand at an advantage since there is ‘partial marking’ where they will be awarded marks even if the final answers are not right,” he said
Even as students queued up an hour in advance before the start of the exams at the centres, many parents chose to wait outside.
“We were hoping that the CBSE had released the board examination results a few days later. The results coming just a day before this exam meant that there was a lot of undue stress and excitement which could have been avoided,” said H. Shankari, whose daughter was taking up the exam.
More candidates this year
Around 7.2 lakh students had attempted the JEE (Mains) written paper conducted by the CBSE on April 3 and 1.19 lakh students across the country had written the computerised examination on April 10.
The number of students qualifying for the JEE (Advanced) paper had gone up this year from 1.5 lakh to 2 lakh students.
