JEE Advanced conducted at nine centres

Kanpur: The Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Advanced was conducted at nine centres in the city on Sunday by IIT-Guhawati in coordination with six other IITs, including IIT-Delhi, IIT-Mumbai and IIT-Kanpur.
IIT, Kanpur zone, conducted the JEE exam in three states namely UP, Madhya Pradesh and Uttarakhand. The exam was conducted at six cities in UP, including Lucknow.As many as 3,350 students took part in the exam in Kanpur which was conducted in two shifts--from 9 am to 12 noon and from 2 pm to 5 pm. Like previous years, this year too the exam had negative markings, many students were confused to pick the right answer. In all, there were 54 questions in each of the two shifts.
After the exam was over, several students, while interacting with TOI, said that in both the shifts, the toughest section was the maths section. Question on differential equations, coordinate and complex were very tricky. It took more than the calculated time to solve the maths questions. On the other hand, questions in the physics paper were not too tricky in comparison to maths but still few questions from optics and electromagnetism forced them to think twice before filling the correct answer on OMR sheet, the students said. Chemistry questions were comparatively easier for all. As there was minus marking, the students answered the questions very carefully.
Ayushi Srivastava, whose centre was at BNSD Shiksha Niketan, Benajhabar, said that it was not an easy task to solve maths questions as their solutions were too lengthy. "The section which gave me the feeling that it was an IIT-level exam was the maths section as the questions were quite tough. I had to use more than one formula in a single question to get the correct answer. The questions were set to judge deep knowledge of the students", she added. Ayushi had scored 104 marks in her JEE mains exam which made her eligible for JEE Advanced.
While maths questions made students think beyond the normal method of solutions but, for some, physics questions were above the average.
Chemistry section provided relief to some extent to the aspirants. When TOI asked students about the chemistry questions, they all replied with a smiling face. Yuvraj Singh, a student of Delhi Public School, Azad Nagar, informed that the paper was good, but chemistry questions were easy.
Ishu Singh, another IIT aspirant said that physics paper was above the average in which questions from chapter on optics were tough. He also said that the maths questions in both the shifts were extremely tough and a lot of brain had to be used to solve them. He said that though his performance was average, but he was hopeful to crack JEE Advanced. Ishu had scored 105 marks in JEE Mains.
Subhankar Awasthi of Mercy Memorial School, said that questions in maths in both the shifts were tough while chemistry questions were easy. He had scored 151 marks in JEE Mains.
There were many students who were taking the exams for the second time (a student is eligible for JEE only twice). A student, Pushpendra Singh, who was attempting the exam for the second time said that maths questions were tricky while physics questions were above average. "The only thing which provided relief in this entrance paper were chemistry questions which were easy", he added.