New Delhi:
In the wake of various errors coming to light in the IIT-JEE question papers, the IIT
directors on Sunday decided to evolve a strategy to ensure that the mistakes do not affect the evaluation of papers and genuine students are not affected.
The directors huddled at IIT-Kanpur and decided that the Joint Admission Board (JAB), the body for taking decision on IIT-JEE matters, would meet next week to evolve a solution to the problem emerging out of errors in the JEE this year.
They worked out a method which will be again discussed at the JAB meeting next week. Several mistakes marked the IIT-Joint Entrance exam on April 11 which was taken by nearly 4.7 lakh students.
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has already written to Human Resources Development Minister Kapil Sibal seeking cancellation of the test. Sibal has asked IIT-Madras Director Prof M S Ananth to a give report on the issue. Ananth will meet Sibal here and apprise him the matter, sources said.
The IIT-JEE papers carried a few printing errors as subject-heads of mathematics and physics were interchanged. Besides, certain questions were not printed in the Hindi version also.
The Hindi version of the papers carried wrong instructions. As per the English version of the paper, there
were certain questions carrying 48 marks. However, the Hindi versions presented the same questions with wrong instruction that they carried 18 marks.
"Today we discussed all the errors in the papers and how to work out a strategy to ensure that the evaluation is not affected by such errors," an IIT Director said.
The meeting also discussed how to check recurrence of such mistakes in the JEE in future. Implementation of Sixth Pay Commission recommendations and concerns raised by faculty
were also discussed at the meeting.
IIT-JEE organising chairman Prof T S Natarajan has already said these mistakes will not affect the evaluation of papers.