NAGPUR: The Central Board of Secondary
Education ( CBSE) has finally decided to
provide students who appeared for the JEE
(Main) with a photocopy of the OMR sheet,
answer key and calculation sheet. There
was earlier reluctance on part of the board
to do so even though there was an increased
demand for the same.
TOI had reported last week about complaints
from students that many candidates scored
much lower than they had expected. Many
of these students can't appear for JEE
(Advanced) as they have failed to meet the
cut-off mark of 113.
Abhishek Bansal, who heads a coaching
institute in Nagpur, said, "Providing these
documents will increase transparency in
JEE. Once CBSE releases the answer keys
then students can verify it and be sure that
they have been marked correctly. While the
computer won't commit mistakes in
marking but this will help in ensuring that
CBSE had chosen the right answers."
Students have to apply for the photocopies
by paying a fee of Rs500 via a demand draft
(payable to Secretary, CBSE) at New Delhi.
The application has to be received by CBSE
before June 15 and the board will dispatch
the documents only by Speed Post. Even
those students who had applied for these
documents under the Right To Information
(RTI) Act will now have to reapply under
the new guidelines.
TOI had reported earlier that 15 candidates
who took the JEE (Main) and were unhappy
with their results had moved the Delhi high
court against the CBSE, which conducted
the exam. JEE (Main) scores are used for
admission to engineering colleges as well as
to shortlist students who can take advance
exam for admission to the Indian Institutes
of Technology . Their petition mentions that
"The respondents provided no mechanism to
redress the grievances of petitioners who
have secured a much higher score according
to the solutions of prominent coaching
institutions, but will be deprived of sitting
in the JEE (Advanced) Exam 2013 being
conducted by the CBSE as well as getting
admission in any reputed engineering
college, only because of institutional
arrogance of respondents who have chosen
to either not respond to the pleas of mercy
or replied in an arbitrary and mechanical
manner with patent absence of application
of mind".
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