Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Main pen and paper conducted by Central Board of Secondary Education : Over 75,000 students took the exam at 150 centres across the state

Updated on: Thursday, April 07, 2016

jeemain The pen and paper exam of the Central Board of Secondary Education's Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Main test took place on Sunday. Around 75,000 students took the exam at 150 centres across the state.

The pen and paper exam of the Central Board of Secondary Education's Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Main testwill be conducted from Ahmedabad, Gandhinagar, Rajkot, Vadodara and Surat. Students will not be allowed to enter the examination hall after 9.30 as the examination had begin at 10 am.

Officials said that even though the centre has decided that students were allowed to carry their own pens, Gujarat coordinators sent an SMS to parents telling them students wouldn't be allowed to carry even pens and they would be provided by the examination centre.

The board has stated that the candidates should reach examination centres 30 minutes before the start of the jee exam. The duration of the exam will be three hours. The test will consist of questions on Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics and all questions will bear equal weight. The candidate will not be allowed to carry baggage, textual material, calculators, log tables, electronic watches, bits of papers, mobile phones, pagers or any other devices inside the examination hall.

The pen and paper exam of the Central Board of Secondary Education's Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Main test aspiring architects will be conducted between two and five pm later in the day.

The JEE (Main) paper was a balanced one overall and set from the CBSE syllabus of class 11 and 12.

According to Trikha, "27 questions were easy, 48 questions were of moderate difficulty and 15 questions were of relatively higher difficulty."

Trikha further said that although the paper was set from the prescribed syllabus, many questions were conceptual, with some needing analytical skills.

According to Disha Sharma, a JEE aspirant, "Overall, the paper was moderate, with chemistry being the easiest amongst all the subjects, maths was okay but calculations were lengthy."

Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Main pen and paper conducted by Central Board of Secondary Education : Over 75,000 students took the exam at 150 centres across the state

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