Nitish demands IIT-JEE re-test

taken from: http://www.indianexpress.com/news/Nitish-demands-IIT-JEE-re-test/607958

Express news service Tags : Nitish Kumar, IIT-JEE, re-test Posted: Sun Apr 18 2010, 03:20 hrs Patna:

Nitish demands IIT-JEE re-test

Bihar CM Nitish Kumar on Saturday demanded an IIT-JEE re-test for those students who had taken the examination in the Hindi medium. Besides the wrong marks being printed against the questions in Paper-II, Hindi medium students had also been given the Physics answersheets in the Mathematics paper.

Nitish Kumar has already spoken to Union HRD minister Kapil Sibal on the matter and said that the students from the Hindi belt should not suffer. Kumar took up the matter after Super 30 mathematicians Anand Kumar and other heads from other coaching centres brought the matter to the CM's notice. "A fresh entrance test is the only solution following mistakes in the Hindi version of the IIT-JEE paper," Kumar said demanding Sibal's intervention. Kumar also demanded an inquiry by the Centre for the goof-up.

Anand Kumar told The Sunday Express: "In the Hindi version of paper-II, six questions had three marks each written against them whereas the English paper for the same questions had six marks each."

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He said that though this could be cited as a printing error, the damage had been done to students as several of them did not attempt questions with lesser marks. "A retest alone can do justice to students". He said some questions had also been asked from outside the syllabus.