Errors creep in AIEEE too

Errors creep in AIEEE too


HYDERABAD: Much like the IIT-Joint Entrance Examination which had printing mistakes in its Optical Mark Reader sheet, AIEEE (All India Engineering Entrance Examination) conducted for admissions into National Institutes of Technologies (NITs) and Indian Institutes of Information Technology (IIITs) confused students who wrote the examination on Sunday with its printing mistakes.

In the examination which was conducted in over 30 centres in the city, two questions (questions 40 and 59) had the same answer listed as two separate options. In question number 59 of Type A question paper which asked the students to spot the correct mirror image from among the given options, identical figures were given under both the options A and B.

Also in question number 40 two of the options given in the answer section were the same.
“Sans the errors the examination was quiet simple this year with many familiar questions,” said K V Raghunath, vice chairman, Narayana Group of Institutions.

Over 1.2 lakh students appeared for AIEEE examinations from the state here on Sunday with around 60,000 appearing for the B Arch examinations which was held from 2 pm to 5 pm. The B Tech and BE examination of AIEEE was held from 9.30 am to 12.30 pm

Also, several students failed to complete B Tech and BE section of AIEEE on time due to a slight change in the pattern of question paper. With Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), which conducts the exam, introducing differential marking (questions carrying both four marks and eight marks) after a long time, several students were left wondering on how to manage time during the three hour test.

The examination which had 90 questions (30 in each section) carrying 432 marks, 18 questions carried eight marks while the rest carried four marks. According to several students, the eight mark questions which were mostly unexpected, were lengthy and tough to crack.

“Each of the eight mark questions had several levels of reasoning and application and hence they took more time to crack than the usual ones,” said a student who wrote examination from Yasodha College of Engineering.

Several students found the Mathematics section easier than the previous years while the Physics and Chemistry sections did have a few surprises. “Physics required sound conceptual understanding where questions were more difficult. However, Mathematics section of the question paper was easy when compared to the previous year,” said Ajay Anthony, AIEEE course coordinator, TIME.

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