IIT-JEE math errors to fetch 12 marks free

Updated on: Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Eight questions of 30 marks in this year’s IIT-JEE, the entrance examination to the Indian Institutes of Technology, had wrong, ambiguous and incomplete descriptions, show the answer keys released on Sunday.

IIT-Kanpur, which conducted the joint entrance exam, said three mathematics questions have been declared open. It means every student who took the paper would get 12 marks free, a move that will raise the cut-off for mathematics.

It has also been found that three questions – two in mathematics and one in physics – had all the four choices correct. Out of eight questions with wrong, ambiguous and incomplete descriptions, six worth 22 marks are in math and two of eight marks in physics. This is the first time that IIT has released answer keys before the final results are out.

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