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Home » Entrance Exams » JEE Advanced 2017 Bonus Marks Issue Raised in SC, New Rank List Demanded

JEE Advanced 2017 Bonus Marks Issue Raised in SC, New Rank List Demanded

by Arunima Sharma
July 1, 2017
in Entrance Exams
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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.

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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.

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Comments 76

  1. Rohith says:
    5 years ago

    Yes…. I affects a lot so exam should be reconducted/ new rank list should be created and councling for mains and advance should be started
    New rank list will also create problems so conducting exam is good one

  2. shubham says:
    5 years ago

    But in this case not giving bonus marks to those who have not attempted the questions would also be totally unfair as they might have choosed to leave the question irrespective of taking risk for getting any negative marks for that.Now the best possible choice could be to reconduct as in any other decision there would be certain group of students who would be affected.

  3. Monika says:
    5 years ago

    Yes its totally unfair to give 18 marks as bonus

  4. monika rathore says:
    5 years ago

    Yes 7 marks as bonus on result day was totally wrong i had attpt them correctly thay was great loss 4 me

  5. Hillol Kumar Das says:
    5 years ago

    It is really surprising that those who have not attended those question have also been given the grace marks. It is absolutely injostice for the students who have answered correctly. The renk list should be republished.

  6. Molu says:
    5 years ago

    Jee take refresh exam. Because agar galat question ka marks hata kar naya rank list diya jayega tb unke saath na insaafi hogi jinhone ise time barbad karke solve kiya ya galat question samajh K attempt hi na lia ho

  7. Ehesanullah says:
    5 years ago

    i too support the petitioner claim in supreme court . the student who struggle with wrong question will certainly waste his valuable more time . where as the student who wont touch that question gifted bonus marks apart from the marks awarded for the questions on witch he spent his restricted time . it is not correct . if 10 hours time is granted to solve the question paper , i think that 90% of the students out that 36000 thousands students will solve all questions . hence it is time factor to be considered .-Ehesanullah advocate , madanapall

  8. Sanjay Zanwar says:
    5 years ago

    Giving 11+7=18 bonus marks is not acceptable. Now what are the probable options to revise the merit list. How to decide who have attempted the questions and who haven’t.? Those who haven’t marked the answers , may have spend time in solving the questions but decided not to mark since there was negative marking.

    A rapid fire 11 questions test is a must for all to decide new merit list. Questions must be from the same subject and exact topic should be defined before the rapidfire test. 11 minutes 11 questions. Questions should be send through registered email id to all candidates. Candidates should answer through SMS or email in 11 minutes. It is possibles, Hope it is acceptable.

    All the Best

  9. Goutham says:
    5 years ago

    This is ultimately unfair. JEE Advanced is one of the toughest engineering exams of the world. So, the probability of knowing an answer to a particular question is very less. This shows that majority of students have got 18 marks extra who are undeserved. Deserving, talented students would know the answers to these ambiguous questions. Due to Grace marks, undeserving students went higher than these deserving, talented students. There’s a law that “it’s okay if 100 criminal escapes, but it’s very wrong that 1 innocent is proved criminal”. The same thing has happened in the case of JEE ADVANCED.

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