..when I read this.
To rephrase that, it is now possible to clear IIT JEE by having single digit cut off marks. For Maths, it is 1. 1 out of 200. So what that means is if you just close your eyes and sing "ek do teen aaja mausam hai rangeen" while 'letting' your pen randomly choose an answer in a multiple choice question, chances are you will clear the cut-off. However, the article sounds less researched. It hasnt mentioned if the cut-off is for general category or for the reserved section. I would believe it is the latter in which case the same old merit-vs-quota debate arises. Also, the article hasnt mentioned about any possible negative marking, which was not there when I took the JEE way back in 1999. I am sure the difficulty level of questions wouldnt go down drastically.
The reason these numbers sound ridiculously low to me is because during my time, thanks to no negative marking and possibly thanks to less than 50% reservation, cut-offs (atleast for the general category) were quite high. I remember checking the FIIT JEE solutions after the JEE '99. I was expecting to get an aggregate of 280ish out of 600. Many friends said I would surely get a rank in top 1500. But when the JEE results came out, I was somewhere in the 2000ish (rounded off for the sake of simplicity ;). Such was the cutoff.
On another digressionary note, if I had to pick up just ONE life-changing exam - without which I would definitely not have been here - I think it would be IIT JEE. I remember how mad I was at myself when I realised after the JEE that I threw away 20-30 marks in some stupidest mistakes. But today I think if I hadnt made those mistakes, at best I would have pushed my rank up by 1000. Would I have been better off? I dont think so. Petroleum engineering was a blessing in disguise for me although it didnt seem so at that point.
Lesson for the day: bigdealness of things in general goes down with time. In hindsight, things work out fine.
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**For Maths, it is 1. 1 out of 200
yuk wut is that?? lol! Thats not even a standard!
Keshi.
It just goes to show that everything happens for the best!
keshi: initially i felt the same but looks like the articile forgot to mention 2 things: a) this cutoff might be for the reserved category and/or b) negative marking pushes the overall score down by quite a bit. (btw, negative marking means you get penalised for every wrong answer :)
solitaire: not everything. But almost everything i would say.
On the other hand, I got a JEE rank in top 500 in the mid 1980's, opted for Metallurgical Engineering because I thought it was really cool (yes, I was a mavarick!), went to grad school in the US, ended up hating it and now I am in a profession completely unrelated to Meta.
oh I see. I know wut negative marking is...hv experienced that at Uni lol!
Keshi.
oh I see. I know wut negative marking is...hv experienced that at Uni lol!
Keshi.
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