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JEE Results: Everybody’s Talking About MCQ!

MCQ or multiple choice questions was introduced in the JEE for the first time this year. Most JEE toppers said this changed pattern of examination helped them score high marks.

Said Arka Aloke Bhattacharya from Don Bosco School(rank 5: JEE), “I wouldn’t have scored this well if there was no MCQ.” Arnab Bhattacharjee (rank 3), while admitting that MCQ helped, said that the announcement from the WBJEE Board came a little late. “When we came to know about the change, we were already in Class XII. However, the format is easy to adapt”, said Bhattacharjee. One of the members of the WBJEE Board, Prof Manoj Mitra, said that MCQ made correction of answer scripts easier. “But even within the MCQ pattern, there are differences. The IIT pattern is different from the WBJEE pattern”, he said.

The chairman of WBJEE Board, Prof N R Banerjea however said that from 2007, the syllabus would be rehauled in order to synchronise with the Higher Secondary syllabus.

Source : http://cities.expressindia.com/

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