Aw JEE! Re-exam for IIT entrance

May 6: A re-examination has been ordered to the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) of the Indian Institute of Technology following leakage of...

May 6: A re-examination has been ordered to the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) of the Indian Institute of Technology following leakage of two papers of Physics & Chemistry (combined) and Mathematics.

This is for the first time in the 40-year-old history of JEE that papers have leaked. The one lakh odd students, who had appeared for the JEE at 300 centres all over the country on May 3 and 4, will now have to reappear for the test sometime in the first week of July.

The Public Relations Officer at IIT (Powai), Professor Aruna Dixit, said: “The orders to hold the re-examination have been issued directly from the Education Ministry in New Delhi after the directors of all the six IITs met in the capital on Sunday to discuss the leakage.”

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Though the officials at the JEE office were unwilling to comment on the paper leakage, it was learnt that the test papers leaked out somewhere in Northern India.

Prof Dixit said the news of leakage had come from Lucknow and that there was a strong possibility that the JEE papers could have first leaked at Patna in Bihar.

“The leakage of papers is very surprising for all of us. However, we are glad that remedial steps have been taken,” said a concerned IIT professor. Over 14,500 candidates appeared for the JEE in the Western Region comprising Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Goa, at 47 centres. Of these, 11 centres were in Mumbai and Navi Mumbai.

City students, meanwhile, have reacted bitterly to the news. “Just because the papers leaked in some remote place in Bihar, all of us have to again toil for the re-examination,” said an affected student.