Chennai: Any fault detected in the question papers for the IIT- JEE 2011 exam held on Sunday will be checked by a panel to determine the authenticity of the allege. On Monday i.e. on April 12, 2011, the IIT JEE coordinators said that while general feedback of the exam was positive, a website had pointed out an error in a Math question.
Dr V Kamakoti, coordinator for the exams in South India, said that it was a traditional IIT JEE paper with Physics, Chemistry and Math sections. He said that on the error, though, they have not received any calls or e-mails from students. A certain website had pointed out an error in the Mathematics Section. It is only an alleged error and nothing is confirmed. A panel will determine the correctness of this claim and come up with an appropriate solution.
As per sources, T I M E Institute had pointed out an error in Paper-1 taken in the morning by students. In a release, the institute said that it concerned question 54 in the Mathematics - Matrices and Determinants part. The question read “Let M & N be two 3 x 3 skew symmetric matrices...”, but a skew symmetric matrix of odd order was singular. So inverse did not exist.
In addition, the IIT-JEE administrators were planning to release a solutions paper on May 15, 2011 by when the error’s correctness would also be determined. Approximately, 65,600 students had taken the exams in Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Puducherry), with about 5,000 in Chennai writing it at 12 centers.
Last year, a regional coordinator’s office said that there was only a print error in the section title wherein Physics section was titled Mathematics and vice versa. According to a statement issues by IIT-Madras Officer generally a panel is formed in cases of errors and it comes with solutions.
