IIT JEE simpler, say most aspirants
NEW DELHI: Nearly five lakh candidates appeared for the joint entrance exam (JEE) of IITs on Sunday. While many aspirants were relieved that the 'most difficult' of all engineering entrance exams was through now, others seemed anxious about their performance which will make or mar their chances of admission to any of the 15 IITs in the country besides IT-BHU and ISM-Dhanbad . The exam was held in two parts and each paper was three-hour-long .
Though they had a back-breaking time attempting the papers, many candidates felt that the first part was simpler than the second and JEE this year seemed a bit simpler than previous years.
"Paper 1, which carried 210 marks this year, seemed easier than Paper 2 which was for 198 marks. Last time, both papers were for 240 marks each. Also, I felt JEE last year was more challenging. There were hardly any questions on matrix this time and not many integer-type questions which require a lot of time and exhaustive brainwork," said Shrustijeet Panda from Bhubaneshwar who prepared for JEE at Kota in Rajasthan and appeared for the exam at Barakhamba Road in the city.
Another candidate, Hemshikha, from Lady Irwin School in the city too found the first paper simpler and more doable. She is keen on pursuing BTech though she is more hopeful of getting through GGSIP University in the city. "I had not done any special preparation for JEE and instead followed CBSE more regularly. Let's see what happens," she said after the exam.
Coaching centres got busy analyzing the question paper right after the two papers held from 9am to 12 noon and then from 2pm to 5pm were over. "As compared to previous years, IIT-JEE this year was relatively easy and came with little or no surprises. The students were prepared for more for more aggressive questions like match-the-followingtype questions, which were totally missing from the papers this time," said T K Bansal from Bansal Tutorials.
Ajay Antony, vicepresident , TIME, added, "There were 10 versions for JEE 2012 from 0 to 9. Paper 1 had 60 questions in the order of physics, chemistry and mathematics. Each subject had 20 questions and the pattern was exactly the same for all the subjects." He found some questions lengthier this time as compared to last year.
It was also the first time, candidates got to take home a carbon copy of their OMR answer sheets. The answer keys to Sunday's exam will be put up on the JEE website before the results are declared on May 18.
News : Economic Times (9.4.12)
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For students who took the IIT Joint Entrance Exam (JEE) in the city on Sunday, the exam yielded conflicting emotions. The exam, which was undertaken by approximately 5.6 lakh aspirants across the country in 1,067 centres, was described as moderately difficult by the students.
News : DNA India (9.4.12)
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IIT-JEE exam: 500,000 students appear across India
NEW DELHI: More than 500,000 Indian students Sunday sat for one of the toughest entrance tests in the country as the Indian Institutes of Technology conducted their joint entrance test, IIT-JEE 2012, at 1,067 centres across the country.
IIT-JEE came with 10 versions of test papers, coded 0 to 9, as a measure to prevent cheating. For the first time, the test takers had to mark their answers with a pen and at the end of the exam, they could take a copy of their answer-sheets home.
This year's JEE had two tests of 60 marks each, having questions from Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry with 20 questions from every subject.
"While the first exam was for 210 marks, the second was for 198 marks. However, this year, some of questions were lengthier, compared to last year," Ajay Antony, Vice President of T.I.M.E. tutorials told IANS.
News : Times of India (9.4.12)
NEW DELHI: Nearly five lakh candidates appeared for the joint entrance exam (JEE) of IITs on Sunday. While many aspirants were relieved that the 'most difficult' of all engineering entrance exams was through now, others seemed anxious about their performance which will make or mar their chances of admission to any of the 15 IITs in the country besides IT-BHU and ISM-Dhanbad . The exam was held in two parts and each paper was three-hour-long .
Though they had a back-breaking time attempting the papers, many candidates felt that the first part was simpler than the second and JEE this year seemed a bit simpler than previous years.
"Paper 1, which carried 210 marks this year, seemed easier than Paper 2 which was for 198 marks. Last time, both papers were for 240 marks each. Also, I felt JEE last year was more challenging. There were hardly any questions on matrix this time and not many integer-type questions which require a lot of time and exhaustive brainwork," said Shrustijeet Panda from Bhubaneshwar who prepared for JEE at Kota in Rajasthan and appeared for the exam at Barakhamba Road in the city.
Another candidate, Hemshikha, from Lady Irwin School in the city too found the first paper simpler and more doable. She is keen on pursuing BTech though she is more hopeful of getting through GGSIP University in the city. "I had not done any special preparation for JEE and instead followed CBSE more regularly. Let's see what happens," she said after the exam.
Coaching centres got busy analyzing the question paper right after the two papers held from 9am to 12 noon and then from 2pm to 5pm were over. "As compared to previous years, IIT-JEE this year was relatively easy and came with little or no surprises. The students were prepared for more for more aggressive questions like match-the-followingtype questions, which were totally missing from the papers this time," said T K Bansal from Bansal Tutorials.
Ajay Antony, vicepresident , TIME, added, "There were 10 versions for JEE 2012 from 0 to 9. Paper 1 had 60 questions in the order of physics, chemistry and mathematics. Each subject had 20 questions and the pattern was exactly the same for all the subjects." He found some questions lengthier this time as compared to last year.
It was also the first time, candidates got to take home a carbon copy of their OMR answer sheets. The answer keys to Sunday's exam will be put up on the JEE website before the results are declared on May 18.
News : Economic Times (9.4.12)
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For students who took the IIT Joint Entrance Exam (JEE) in the city on Sunday, the exam yielded conflicting emotions. The exam, which was undertaken by approximately 5.6 lakh aspirants across the country in 1,067 centres, was described as moderately difficult by the students.
“I won’t really call the exams very tough, but I did end up making some silly mistakes along the way. In the first paper, both Chemistry and Mathematics were quite easy but in the paper 2, Mathematics was a bit lengthy,” said MV Keshav, a student of Savidya Composite Pre-University College .
By the format, students had to take two sets of three-hour exams on Sunday. The first set had 60 questions for 210 marks—in the order of Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics. The second paper was for 198 marks for the same subjects.
“Paper 1 Maths was comparatively easy. Almost 70% of the question paper was made up of direct questions and the students say they were able to answer it easily enough. However, as the second paper was lengthy, students were only able to produce an average performance,” said Dr Godandaraman, the Mathematics trainer at BASE training centre, which trains students for IIT JEE.
“The general view of the students was that paper 2 was much more difficult than paper 1, with Mathematics being the subject that most students had trouble with,” said Ajay Antony, vice-president, TIME, a coaching institute. Antony echoed the students’ complaints that some of the questions in the exam this year were lengthier than past year’s exam. He also said that most students found the other subjects comparatively easier to tackle.
“In the order of difficulty, students felt that Chemistry was the easiest and that Physics was not too hard. They had problems with Mathematics,” he added.
News : DNA India (9.4.12)
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IIT-JEE exam: 500,000 students appear across India
NEW DELHI: More than 500,000 Indian students Sunday sat for one of the toughest entrance tests in the country as the Indian Institutes of Technology conducted their joint entrance test, IIT-JEE 2012, at 1,067 centres across the country.
IIT-JEE came with 10 versions of test papers, coded 0 to 9, as a measure to prevent cheating. For the first time, the test takers had to mark their answers with a pen and at the end of the exam, they could take a copy of their answer-sheets home.
This year's JEE had two tests of 60 marks each, having questions from Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry with 20 questions from every subject.
"While the first exam was for 210 marks, the second was for 198 marks. However, this year, some of questions were lengthier, compared to last year," Ajay Antony, Vice President of T.I.M.E. tutorials told IANS.
News : Times of India (9.4.12)
