Major error in Hindi version of IIT paper

April 15, 2010 - PRLog -- Rajiv Kumar, professor, IIT-Kharagpur, pointed out that as per the English version of the paper, section IV of paper II had two questions each having four parts (A, B, C and D); each part being of two marks. Thus there were 4x2x2 = 16 marks for each subject. Since there are three subjects — mathematics, physics and chemistry — section IV is of total 48 marks (16x3).

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However, Kumar pointed out that the translation of Hindi version of paper II said something else. It said, “For each question in section IV, three marks are awarded if the bubble corresponding to the correct answer is darkened, and zero if no bubble is darkened. No negative marks will be awarded for this section.” Kumar said that while English version clearly stated that each question was of eight marks, the Hindi version said each question was of three marks. “An examinee who takes the Hindi version of the paper notes that six questions in this section are of 6x3=18 marks, though they are of 48 marks,” Kumar said.

An email question sent to T S Natarajan of IIT-Madras who was involved in this year’s JEE did not evince any reply. Even his phone was switched off.

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Pointing out the impact of faulty instruction in Hindi, Kumar said, “A JEE examinee who has to do a tradeoff between time and gains (in terms of scored marks) decides that it is much harder to crack questions of 18 marks in the stipulated time and concentrates on other problems. Thus, he simply ignores those six questions of section IV, and is deprived of 16 marks each in three subjects, namely mathematics, physics and chemistry and loses 48 marks.”

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