Setting the JEE record straight

Some 12 lakh candidates appeared for JEE Main 2013,which will determine admissions to NITs and a host of engineering institutes,and serve to sift the top 1.5 lakh students who will be eligible to appear for JEE Advanced that determines admissions to IITs.

A good 10 per cent candidates have provided incorrect information. There are students who have misspelt their names or short spelled or have not spelled it as it is in their board examination forms. Others have even given names of wrong school boards or even fake boards. This is the first year of the JEE Main format and we want to ensure no student suffers due to these errors. A dedicated centre is working round the clock to verify details now, an official associated with the centre said.

This is how the dedicated centre sets the records straight: as soon as a possible error is spotted,the centre attempts to verify it through information provided by various school boards; then they call up the student or her guardian,inform them of the discrepancies and ask them to rectify them on the CBSE website. The centre has so far corrected more than 40,000 forms.