The National Testing Agency (NTA) on Friday revised answers to two questions in its newly published final answer key for paper 1 (Bachelor of Engineering/Bachelor of Technology) of the Joint Entrance Exam (JEE) main session 2. However, two physics questions – one in domestic centres and one in international centres – remained dropped as it was in the first final answer keys, which was removed barely an hour after uploading it on its official website on Thursday night.
NTA has replaced their initial answer of 125 for question ID 347577574 in physics with 5, however, many candidates stated that the correct answer is 5. Same as they changed the answer key to 0 for question ID 603421799. In domestic they dropped question ID 347577562, and for international they dropped question ID 347577939.
The NTA stated in its bulletin of October 28, 2024 that “On the basis of human error or technical error, we will disregard any incorrect question and award 4 marks to each candidate, irrespective of whether they attempted to answer. In the past, when we dropped questions from JEE main 2025 session 1 paper 1, we were able to drop 10 questions in total in session 1 and six questions in session 2 for paper 1 of JEE main 2024.
The coaching center’s review argues that there still may be discrepancies with the latest answer keys, with NTA only correcting some questions in the revised final answer keys from first final answer keys, and still providing wrong answers for few questions.
“NTA conducted the JEE main session 2 in 10 shifts for paper 1, which had 675 questions from mathematics, physics and chemistry subjects. Our analysis shows that in the revised final answer key released on Friday, the answers of 11 questions have also been changed compared to the provisional answer keys, including 6 in physics, 3 in mathematics and 2 in chemistry. Of the 11 questions, the answers of a maximum of 5 questions were changed for shifts on April 3, including 4 questions in the morning and one question in the evening shift,” Allen Career Institute’s director Dr Brajesh Maheshwari said.
The agency, which has been rocked by scandals involving paper leaks ever since the handling of National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET-UG) 2024, is now faced with complaints regarding mistakes in provisional and final answer keys JEE Main 2025 exam, one of India’s most important engineering entrance exams.
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