JEE Advanced 2018: Numerical Answer Type questions to be evaluated carefully

JEE Advanced 2018 concluded on May 20. While some students found the exam to easy, others were stumped with the Numerical Answer Type questions in the exam. A latest clarification issued by IIT Kanpur has now come as a relief to such students.

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According to the release, the institute has clarified that students’ answers for questions which did not have multiple choices will be evaluated depending on the question. The website states," For Numerical-Answer-Type questions, the numerical VALUE entered by the candidate will be evaluated. Wherever applicable, depending on the question, answers will be evaluated by checking whether the answer entered by the candidate falls within a range of two values, with or without including the upper and lower values of the range depending on the question".

The institute also shared some examples:

1. If an answer is the integer 11 (Eleven), all answers entered as 11, 11.0 or 11.00 will be correct.
2. If an answer is exactly the number 11.5 (Eleven-point-five), all answers entered as 11.5 or 11.50 will be correct.
3. If an answer is the number 11.367777777..., all answers entered within a specified range, for example 11.36 to 11.37 (this range is shown for illustration purposes only) will be correct. Thus both answers 11.36 and 11.37 will be correct.

According to experts, more than 40% of the 54 questions in each paper of JEE Advanced 2018 had numerical answer-type questions which did not have multiple choices. In the earlier editions of the exam, these questions appeared as integer-type questions and an answer range of 0-9 was provided. Moreover, the number of such questions were restricted to 15. The difference this year was that not only did the number of such questions shot up to 48, there was no range provided as well. Besides this, the students were also asked to round off answers up to the second decimal place.

JEE Advanced 2018 answer keys for Paper 1 and Paper 2 are expected to be released on May 29. However, the Optical Response Sheets (ORS) of aspirants will be made available through email and through the applicant’s log-in account from May 22 onwards. Aspirants will be required to log in to the applicant portal using their JEE Advanced registration number, date of birth, mobile number and email id to check the same. Candidates will have the provision to make challenges to the response sheets  upon payment of Rs. 500 per challenge.

The process of receiving feedback from candidates on answer keys through candidate portal will commence from May 29 and conclude on May 30, 5 pm. JEE Advanced 2018 results are expected to be declared on June 10. Check the important dates of JEE Advanced 2018 here. Along with results, JEE Advanced 2018 cut-offs too will be declared by the exam conducting authority.