Over 17,000 skip JEE advance

LUCKNOW: Over 17,000 candidates did not take the JEE Advance Examination held on Sunday in two shifts at 573 centres across India.

KANPUR: Over 17,000 candidates did not take the JEE (Advanced) examination held today in two shifts throughout the country at 573 centres.

Organising chairman of JEE (Advanced), Professor Shalabh said 7,326 candidates did not turn up for the first paper and 9,731 did not take the second one. As many as 1,57,496 candidates wrote the first paper while 1,55.091 appeared for the second paper. A total of 17,057 candidates out of 1,64,822 did not take the examinations.

According to professor Shalabh, out of 20,428 candidates in Kanpur zone 683 were absent in the first paper and 829 did not give the examination of the second paper at all the 75 centres in the zone.

He said 1,64,822 candidates had appeared for the examination in seven zones in the country. The zones included IIT-Bombay (28,813 candidates), IITDelhi (31,884 candidates), IITGuwahati (11,907 candidates), IIT-Kanpur (20,428 candidates), IIT-Kharagrpur (19,145 candidates), IIT-Madras (38,231), and IIT-Roorkee (14,414 candidates).

About 834 registrations were cancelled at the initial stage as the candidates could not submit the required documents.

There were fewer foreign students as compared to last year. As many as 109 foreign students had taken the JEE (advanced) last year but this time only 36 foreign students appeared for the

exam. However, like previous year, no third gender sought registration for JEE (Advanced).

The JEE (Advanced) examination passed off peacefully and no case of unfair means was reported from any centre. A few candidates who had earrings or chains were asked to remove them before entering the examination hall.

However, the candidates of JEE (Advanced) were upset over the mathematics question paper, as it was lengthy and some questions were not only tough but also complicated, said most of the examinees. They left a good number of questions due to the rule of negative marking.

Nichal Tripathi, Deepanshu, Vaibhav Katiyar, Suryavanshi and several other examinees said the mathematics paper was lengthy and tough. It also had complicated questions. They said the organic chemistry paper was also very lengthy. The physics paper was a bit tough, but overall, the question papers were satisfactory, they said.