The Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Main Exam 2017 was conducted on Sunday. Admit cards were checked and the candidates went through the metal detector test before appearing for the examination.
Notably, the JEE Main examination is conducted by Central Board of Education (CBSE) every year.
Approximately 9000 engineering aspirants from the State capital appeared for the examination. Moreover, from across the country as many as 10 lakh students appeared for the exam.
The students reported at the examination centre at 7 am and just after the reporting time, the screening of the paper started.
It was an offline examination. During the examination strict checking was carried out. The security check was done with the metal detectors and also the verification of the candidates was done. The admit cards of each of the candidate were checked strictly as the engineering aspirants appeared for the offline mode of JEE Main Exam 2017.
The examination began at 9:30 am and continued till 12:30 am. It is to be noted that the candidate appeared for the JEE Main examination for admissions in BE and B. Tech courses. The examination was held in 20 centers across the city.
According to the candidates the paper was ranged from average to difficult level. The paper consisted of different sections including Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics. There questions including reasoning and theory. Few candidates find Physics a bit tricky, while mathematics paper was a bit lengthy.
The online examination of JEE Main will be held on April 8 and 9.
However, Top educationists are of the opinion that there have been a lot of similarities between this year’s and last year’s papers. JEE Main, 2017 seems to have been moderately easy yet lengthy, with questions from some subjects being even lengthier than last year. The weightage of marks tilted towards questions from the 12th standard syllabi.