JEE Main was a cake walk for aspirants this year

Joint Engineering Entrance Main 2013 was held on 7th April, 2013 at various test centres across the country. According to students and experts the exam was the easiest and simplest one in last two-three years. The exam is conducted to shortlist students for enrolling them in IIITs, NITs and government funded institutes of the country. After the exam, top 1.5 lakh successful students will be able appear in JEE Advanced exam which will be conducted to enrol students to the Indian Institute of Technology, IIT-BHU and ISM Dhanbad. JEE Advanced will be conducted on 2nd June, 2013.

The exam will be helpful in preparing the final merit list of JEE Main for admissions to various BE/B.Tech programmes in the various engineering institutes across the country.

As per the experts and teachers compared to 2011 and 2012 it has been the most easy paper and cutoffs are expected to notice an increase and the number of high scorers will be large. R L Trikha, director, FIIT JEE, Delhi, said, said, “The mathematics and chemistry portions of the paper were easy. While there were some tricky questions in physics, just a couple of chemistry questions don't lead to direct answers. For an above average student, they were not a challenge.”

There were many students who have completed their paper much before the allotted time of three hours. Bhavya, a candidate from Delhi, said, “Barring a few questions in physics and chemistry, the paper was easy. I had solved similar papers before time.”

As per Trikha, it was a well designed and balanced paper as far as distribution is concerned for the questions of classes XI and XII. In this exam 40% questions in physics paper were from class XI , where as 47% of chemistry questions and 60% of mathematics questions were from class XI.

The merit list of successful candidates will be prepared on the basis of 60% weighate to the JEE (Main) score and 40% weightage will be given to class 12th board exam marks on which the students will be called for counselling and admissions.



Source: Times of India