Oxford student nails JEE, angers Indians

NEWDELHI: Quora user Jack Fraser was at the receiving end of vicious online harassment after he reportedly solved a Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) question paper in “a third of the allowed time, and with 100% correct answers”. Fraser, a third year physics student at the University of Oxford, said he attempted the paper after he was asked on Quora to solve it.

His ease with the JEE questions did not go down well with several Indians on social media, where he received a flood of abuse and was called a liar.

The harassment took a turn for the worse with his mother being sent obscene pictures and his brother threatened. Fraser’s Facebook profile picture was reported for ‘graphic indecency’.

“One guy sent me a picture of my (old) university accommodation, saying they knew where I lived, and that he was going to “shiv” me,” he wrote on Quora.

On his Quora page he has said that a particularly unpleasant thing happened to him when someone asked if Jack Fraser could solve the JEE paper.

The JEE is an all-India entrance exam held every year for admission into the Indian Institutes of Information Technology, the National Institutes of Technology and the Centrally Funded Technical Institutes.

The exam is considered one of the toughest to crack in India.

Fraser, who thought it would be a “laugh to sit down and do the paper,” solved it.

THE STUDENT WAS HARASSED ONLINE, HIS MOTHER WAS SENT OBSCENE PICTURES AND HIS BROTHER THREATENED