In a move expected to benefit engineering aspirants, the Indian Institutes of Technology have decided to post on websites the answer keys of Joint Entrance Examination 2012 as well as the answer copies of students.
IIT-Delhi director R.K. Shevgaonkar said Wednesday that answer keys of the exam will be displayed on May 3 and the evaluated optical response sheets (ORS) of all candidates will be displayed from May 5 to 10 on all JEE websites.
“The actual result will be displayed on May 18. Before that the evaluated ORS will be available on websites from May 5 to 10. Students can log on to the websites and see their optical response sheets,” he said.
“This will enable students to lodge complaints, if any, before the results are announced,” he added.
Students can log on and register a complaint if required, and a group of faculty members from all IITs will see if these complaints are genuine, and if an error has been committed which needs to be rectified, he said.
The optical response sheets of all candidates will be displayed along with the machine-read response, and marks scored.
Candidates can submit revision requests online in case of any perceived errors in the machine-read responses online by May 10. Over 4.79 lakh students sat for this year’s IIT-JEE.
The government is, meanwhile, proposing to hold a single common entrance test for admission to undergraduate programmes in IITs and other technical and science institutes from next year.