I am reproducing the questions posed by a student on a web site which seems very relevant in this case
We request IIT-JEE 2010 authorities to clarify the following questions related to the “Corrective Measures For The Errors Encountered In JEE-2010” put up on IIT JEE Website on May 2.
1. We would like to know how many candidates, out of 4.72 lakh who appeared in JEE 2010 on April 11, used the Hindi version for Paper 1 & Paper 2? Kindly provide the exact number.
2. How many candidates used the Hindi version of Paper-1 having “Code-4” in which Question No. 44 in the Mathematics section was not printed? Provide the exact number of candidates who are going to be benefited by this missing question?
3. a. How many candidates used the question papers containing two unreadable pages and two partially readable pages in the Physics section of Paper-1? Provide the JEE-2010 registration numbers of candidates who have got these defective question papers?
b. In all how many questions were there in those unreadable and partially readable pages?
c. What is the total number of marks contained in those unreadable and partially readable pages?
d. How many such defective question papers were noticed during the examination by the invigilators? Why could not the invigilators take a corrective step by replacing these
Defective Q papers with a good one or photo stated ones of the same codes?
4. a. On the JEE Madras website the column published on May 02, 2010 under the heading “Corrective Measures For The Errors Encountered In Jee-2010” under which it is clarified that the Error No 2 & Error No 4 will be corrected by appropriately scaling these affected candidates. Explain the meaning & exact process of scaling in detail.
b. Whether this scaling will give rise to giving undue advantage to those candidates who had not attempted those questions at all and thereby had a lot of time to spend their time in solving other questions thoroughly?
5. a. As per the Corrective Measures published on the JEE Website, “Each ORS (both for Paper 1 & Paper 2) will be evaluated in two ways (sequential question number-wise and subject headings-wise). In each case the higher score of the two evaluations will be taken as the candidate's score. Should one of the ways of evaluating lead to a mark below the minimum qualifying mark in one of the subjects, the other way will be deemed to be the ‘higher’ of the two scores”. Kindly explain the reasons for applying this evaluation methodology to the entire 4.72 lakh candidates? Whether this newly prescribed method of evaluation not affects the genuine candidates who have actually used their IQ and also followed the instructions announced by the respective invigilators in most of the centres? How many candidates have actually confessed to this error of their’s in writing to IITs?
b. Will this method of evaluation not give undue advantage to those who have not applied their IQ before darkening the bubbles wrongly?
c. What is the probability of such persons getting undue advantage due to this proposed new evaluation method?
d. “By taking the highest marks obtained in both methods of evaluation and then further correcting the marks to elevate a candidate to cross the minimum cut-off marks of individual subjects,” will it lead to candidates not getting negative marks unlike in the previous year’s JEE evaluation?
e. Will this not lead to an increase in subject wise minimum cut-off for this year and thereby a decrease in overall cut-offs in order to get a minimum of 10,000 + candidates to fill the seats in all IITs?
f. Has IITs tested their newly proposed evaluation method on JEE-2009 ORS data, which is available with them, before applying the same on the IIT JEE-2010 ORS data, to see what percentage of genuine candidates (selected candidates) will be affected by this new method of dual evaluation (sequential question number-wise and subject headings-wise).
g. Has IIT tested this method on readily available JEE-2009 ORS data to validate this new evaluation method? If so kindly provide the following information
i) What is the result they have got from the test run? How many unsuccessful candidates in JEE-2009 are getting through if this dual evaluation method is applied to JEE-2009 ORS data?
ii) How many originally selected candidates were thrown out or changed their AIR positions due to this evaluation method?
iii) Has the above study thrown light on how this dual evaluation method affects the individual subject wise cut-offs and over all cut offs? Kindly provide the details?
6. Kindly give more clarification on the partial marking scheme adopted by IIT for some of the questions in JEE-2010 papers?
7. Are all these supposedly printing errors, which IIT JEE-2010 has encountered and subsequently reported in their website, not due to some kind of sabotage to degrade in one stroke the IIT’s reputation deliberately with an idea to build a strong case to allow foreign universities in to our country? If so, these should be investigated further by a competent authority or agency.
In my opinion it is very difficult for IITs to come up with a proper evaluation method to the above problems, with which justice to the genuine candidates is ensured. With the evaluation method proposed by IIT some undeserving candidates will get in to the merit list. Hence this method should be refined further or consider a re-examination, which will no doubt be taxing the students to some extent but in the end justice will be done to the real and intelligent candidates. Keeping this in mind IITs should go for a re-examination. After a re-examination they may even consider taking average of both the examinations so that there will not be any legal issues there afterwards.
