1,900 appear for JEE (Advanced)
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, May 24
Nearly 1,900 students, who had cleared the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Mains-2015, appeared for the JEE Advanced at six centres in the city today. The candidates will get admission to the Indian Institute of Technology (IITs) nationwide on the basis of marks obtained in this examination.
A city-based JEE physics trainer, Kunal Singh, said: “The number of students who appeared for the examination in the previous year was 1,801, out of which 393 finally made into the common merit list of IITs.”
Analysing the JEE Advanced paper I, Kunal said: “The paper pattern was little different from the previous year. It consisted of three sections in physics, chemistry and mathematics where each subject was given equal weightage of 88 marks and a total of 264 in three-hour duration.
The Section I of the test was excluded from negative marking while Sections II and III contained negative marking for wrong attempts.
Questions in the papers were of objective (multiple choice) type with negative marking, paragraph-based, designed to test comprehension, reasoning and analytical ability of candidates,” said Kunal.
Most of the students found chemistry the easiest one followed by mathematics. Students found the physics section a tricky one as it comprised questions that required deep understanding, he said.
Anil Verma, director of JEEGURU, Sector 34, said in physics, emphasis was laid on conceptual topics.
Out of the three subjects, most aspirants found chemistry the toughest in paper 1 that had nearly equal weightage of all three parts of chemistry – physical, inorganic and organic.
Of these, inorganic was the easiest followed by physical chemistry. Questions from organic chemistry were mostly difficult to crack. In paper 2, the coverage of physical and inorganic chemistry was more. The questions were normally easy except for three organic problems. In paper 1, algebra was represented heavily with nearly half weightage being given to it. The paper was quite challenging to a student due to this reason. In paper 2, the difficulty remained almost the same. One had to carefully avoid time-consuming questions in the beginning to score heavily in this paper. The comprehension using properties of functions and calculus was a tough nut to crack, Verma said.
The mathematics paper was a set of mixed questions, he said.
In paper 1, algebra was represented heavily with nearly half weightage being given to it. The paper was quite challenging to students due to the same.
In paper 2, the difficulty remained almost the same and students should avoid time-consuming questions in the beginning in this paper also to score better, he said.
