New Delhi: Yet another instance of goof-up being reported when IIT-JEE 2010 examination was conducted yesterday i.e. on April 11, 2010. Some students were frantic through their IIT-JEE exam, because the order of subjects on the question paper didn’t match the sequence on the answer sheet. However, others cracked the seeming teaser by figuring out that there was an obvious case of printing mistake.
As per sources, while the question paper had the first 28 questions from physics, followed by an equal number of questions from chemistry and mathematics, the ORS sheet (objective response sheet) had a different sequence of subjects. What complicated the matter was that every subject had precisely 28 questions. As students across the country complained about the sequence of subjects not matching, the IIT authorities woke up to the blunder and asked every exam centre to advise students to ignore the subject heads on the ORS sheets and go by the question numbers.
Furthermore, in one of the 10 codes of the Hindi version of Paper 1, a question was not printed. But according to JEE Madras, steps would be taken to make sure that the candidates’ score does not suffer. The JEE released an official statement, in which it mentioned that there was a minor error in the order of printing of the subject headings. Moreover, authorities sent out a clarification in quick time, but with the exam being conducted across 1,026 centres, it came in at different stages during the exam.
