IITs correct JEE error, spark confusion
The Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) on Sunday admitted that question papers in their Joint Entrance Examination held last month had errors worth a mammoth 36 marks that could critically affect admission chances thousands of meritorious candidates. The IITs have offered marks in three questions to all of the 4.8 lakh candidates who appeared for the exam. But they are likely to face uncomfortable questions from parents and students over the remaining erroneous questions, where the IITs awarded marks to some students and not to others. The biggest sufferers of the errors and the attempt by the IITs to correct them are those students, who, on finding something wrong in specific question-and-answer combinations, left these questions because of negative marking for incorrect answers. The 28 marks worth errors in math are more than the cut-off in the subject for the past four years - 1, 5, 7 and 11 - revealing the scale of the problem. The cut-offs for physics - where the 2011 JEE had e...