On Friday, a petition was filed against the grant of extra marks by IIT Madras to JEE Advanced 2017 entrants. The petition demands cancellation of the announced rank list and conducting of a fresh counselling.The petition was submitted to Supreme Court, which now seeks Center’s and IIT Madras, an explanation for awarding grace marks to even those candidates who did attempt the question.
JEE Advanced 2017 was held on May 21, 2017. The conducting body awarded 18 extra marks to the candidates after realizing the printing errors in the Hindi Language Section of the paper. IIT-M granted marks for two question in Paper 1 and three questions in Paper 2. In Paper 1, one question was from the Chemistry section whereas the other one was from the Mathematics sections. Whereas, from Paper 2, a question was from Physics sections and the remaining two questions from Mathematics section.
One might ask what is such a big deal about this? Well, there is a lot of catch. As per TOI reports, in 2016 and 2015 the IITs gave 1 bonus marks for each incorrect answer. Ditching the mechanism used so far, this year the marks have been granted according to the marking scheme of the respective Paper. In Paper 2, the marks per question were 4 and the negative marking of 1 mark is implemented. However, in Paper 1, the marking scheme varies as it contained questions with multiple correct choices. So, the marks per question in Paper 1 of the exam was 3 and were only allocated if all the correct answer choices opted. If the candidate chooses only a few correct choice answer option, then only 1 mark was to be allocated. Negative marking in this Paper was also of 2 marks.
The issue basically arises because all the candidates have been allocated extra marks, which are so high. Two qualifiers of JEE Advanced filed the petition, stating that their ranking in the merit list has been affected adversely. They further claim that due to this, they will not receive admission in prioritized course and colleges. Apart from this, the methodology for preparation of all-India rank list has also been sought with the marks awarded to candidates who had attempted the rights answers for these questions.
A vacation bench of Justice, headed by Abhay Manohar Sapre and Sanjay Kishan Kaul has demanded Centre and IIT-M clarification on the matter. The SC has given one week’s time to both the authority for submitting the response. The next hearing on the matter is due on July 07, 2017. Further, SC has also demanded interim stay on the merit and the counselling procedure.
SC has said that if only a certain number of students submitted objections again the discrepancy in the few questions. Then how can IIT Madras grant 18 marks to all the appearing candidates, irrespective of they have appeared for the exam or not? Even the petition also stated, “clearly arbitrary and violative of the rights of the candidates who successfully solved the said questions,”
Top 2.2 lakh JEE Main qualifiers were allowed to appear for JEE Advanced and out of these only 1.71 lakh candidates registered for the exam. The counselling for JEE Advanced 2017 has started and 11,000 candidates have got admission in seats offered by 23 IITs. Since the counselling for Advanced paper is held along JEE Main by JoSAA, the total number of candidates who got admission after the first allotment is 36,114 in 97 institutes.
The round 2 of JoSAA counselling will begin on July 04, 2017. Until July 07, 2017, the SC will not order hold the ongoing counselling procedure. However, only the time will tell where the case will take the turn. Do you think the bonus marks has affected the merit of the students? Is granting such high grace marks unfair? Tell us your thoughts in the comment section below.
Totally unfair I feel this has affected rankings a lot
it’s definitely unfair to award those extra marks unconditionally to all. Those that attempted and spent time on those have lost out.
Yes,definitely for those who lost their time in solving such question …
just ban and bar IIT Madras to design future IIT papers, and who did it should be hanged or behind the bars, how could they play with life of students?
rightly said
It is totally illegal and affect the students who solved those questions.
It is totally illegal and affect the students who solved those questions.
Please SC appeal to u give fair decision our careers is based on this
It is Important to ask correctly firm questions.Due to Allotment of 18-24 marks affect the rank list in very Large …The difference will be in Thousands of ranks.
The Subject Selection in Allotment purely on marks base not on subject base marks.
For E.g A student Score P-85, M-95, C-30.
From above marks his Rank will be 4k .
Generally with this rank he will get more Chemistry Related Subjects.in Good institutions.
Yes I only got 7 marks as bouns
yes
Its completely unfair. The integrity and ethics is in doubt. One mark matters a lot. They given 18 marks i.e. 5% without any reason. What abt students who worked so hard and their families wo equally involved for this hard work. Hard work gone waste.
Firstly it’s an extremely unacceptable thing that there will be 18 marks’ worth of wrong questions in such an important exam. Futures of thousands of students depend on this exam. A bit more seriousness is expected from a so called reputed institute like IIT Madras.
Secondly, let’s come to the actual point. The rules clearly state that in case of wrong questions, bonus marks will only be awarded to candidates who attempt the question. But no,they decided to give marks to everyone!
Imagine. There’s this candidate who has no idea that there are wrong questions. Instead he has correctly solved some other questions. But then as a free gift, 18 bonus marks! That’s an undeserved jackpot. He gets a very good rank and begins living the dreams of another actually deserving candidate who had used some of his time to solve the wrong questions. As mentioned in the petition, this is clearly a violation against the second candidate who gets a poor rank as he gets no extra credit for that time he invested. The entire rank list is flawed by this.
I strongly support Aishwarya Agarwal and the other petitioner and hope that they win the case and bring justice.
It is crudely unfair.The students who deserve the good rank are affected badly.It shows the mean practices in nation’s highest level education program. Re-evaluation must be done to protect the future of students.
Totally unfair
This has affected the merit list a lot
definitely
It has ruined the dreams of many. Including me who is an IIT aspirant . I wasted almost ten to twenty minutes on those wrong questions and got the correct answers given as per answer keys of various institutes but………………………..
even that guy who hasn’t attempted those questions will be getting the same marks……………….
Where is the logic?????????
It has drastically affected the merit list as well as our hopes …………….
definitely some step should be taken to relieve us…………