New Delhi:
Allegations of ambiguity in the IIT-JEE papers were made on Monday including that they carried certain questions having more than one correct answer, but the complaints were refuted by the organisers.
There were certain questions in Section-II which were carrying more than one correct answer. The instructions said candidates will get partial marking for choosing partially correct answers. These questions had no negative marks, an IIT professor claimed.
"This provision could have allowed students to exercise random choice. Without using mind, a student can randomly blacken all bubbles and stand to get full marks," the professor said.
The IIT-JEE for the first time introduced the provision for partial marking. There were 15 such questions, carrying 45 marks, in Section-II of the papers yesterday. The papers had a few other questions where the candidates were asked to make correct matching. But there was possibility of more than one correct matching, the professor said.
However, IIT-JEE authorities denied these allegations. "If one student blackens all the bubbles, his answer will be rejected," IIT-JEE organising chairman Prof T S Natarajan said.
The IIT-JEE today also issued a statement, clarifying that appropriate corrective actions would be taken during evaluation to take care of printing errors in the papers.
"There was a minor error in the order of printing of the subject headings (Chemistry, Mathematics and Physics) in the ORS... One of the 10-codes (namely, Code 4) of the Hindi version of Paper-1, Question 44 was not printed. Appropriate corrective action will be taken during evaluation of the papers," the statement said.
The test was conducted at 1,026 centres across the country yesterday as nearly 4.72 lakhs students attempted the examination for nearly 10000 seats in the 15 IITs, IT BHU and ISM Dhanbad.