IITs admit errors worth 36 marks in JEE-2011
New Delhi: In what may come as a major blow to many Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) aspirants, the IITs admitted on Sunday that the question paper for the IIT-JEE (Joint Entrance Examination) that had been conducted last month had errors amounting to about 36 marks. The errors in the paper can critically affect the admission chances of thousands of aspirants in the test and prove to be a major setback to their performance. The IITs have now offered marks in three questions to all 4.8 lakh aspirants who had appeared for the test this year. However, the institutes will have to face questions from thousands of parents and students over the remaining questions that had errors in which the IITs will be awarding marks to some students and not to others. The maximum damage because of the erroneous questions and the corrections that the IITs are trying to make by students who were able to spot the errors and had left the questions un-attempted due to fear of being negatively marked for in...