This year Jee Advanced proved again that no matter how much you analize previous year papers and try to predict the upcoming ones depending on which IIT is organizing it, you'll always get punched in the face.

I reached the center in time, done with all the formalities and got the assigned computer still having an hour left. After half an hour invigilators distributed a blue paper containing this year's pattern for paper 1 which was an absolute nightmare!

Section 1

6 more than one correct questions with partial marking and a negative marking of 2. (as usual)

Section 2

8 numerical value type questions where answer should be truncated to 2 decimal places ranging from negative infinity to positive infinity. (you're kidding right? I wish I could) Marking was +3 with no negative marking.

Section 3

2 paragraph type questions having 2 questions each having only one option correct giving you 3 marks for correct and minus 1 for incorrect answer.

The thing which turned my face blue and green was section 2. Unlike previous years where integer type questions have answers from 0 to 9, this time it was definitely much more difficult to get the correct answer and that too upto 2 decimal places. I got into some deadly calculations like sqrt[ln(3)] and how am I supposed to do that accurately? Well obviously I approximated everything and marked a numerical value which I was not sure about. Some of my friends got perfect integer answers like 5 but they had to mark it like 5.00 otherwise it will be counted as incorrect. I don't think this pattern made any sense, they could have done it like double digit answer or triple digit answer but introducing decimal is something really absurd.

Let's move on to paper 2 now.

Section 1

6 more than one correct questions with partial marking and a negative marking of 2. (again this one is common)

Section 2

8 numerical value type questions where answer should be truncated to 2 decimal places ranging from negative infinity to positive infinity. (Oh god! Not again) Marking was same.

Section 3

4 Matching type questions with 4 options having only one of them correct. +3 for correct and a -1 for incorrect answer. (as usual)

Now after reading section 2, my face turned pale white, Like a moon in the winter night.

I was just trying to digest the fact that this time out of 108 questions, 48 questions are of numerical value type and that too the answer could be anything upto 2 decimals, and I got another shock that it's only 18 minutes left for exam to begin and I have not completed registration for paper 2. I rushed to the registration counter and got everything done within 5 minutes and got back to my system.

Now, paper 1 was very much balanced. Physics was easy to moderate level, chemistry was moderate to tough level and maths was moderate level. But in paper 2, chemistry was tough. Organic chemistry literally screwed me up and I was wondering if I did a right thing to drop an year to face this kind of advanced paper. Apart from chemistry, maths and physics was moderate level but some questions of maths were really challenging.

Overall, I think many students have messed it up in section 2 and due to its high weightage this year, cut off may go unexpectedly low (totally my opinion). But let's just not dig into the predictions of cut off because again, you'll be punched right in the face.

That was my view on Jee Advanced 2018, feel free to share your experiences in the comment section, I'll be glad to hear, about your's my dear!

EDIT 1-

Cheer up friends!

Jee advanced has officially declared some information regarding the most controversial numerical value type questions, have a look here.

So, all my friends who were worried about the decimal issue over some intrger questions, now may seem relieved! Finally, they took a very reasonable decision to consider 7, 7.0 and 7.00 all as correct and also provided a small range upto which the answer will be considered correct. So now, you only need to worry if you got the correct answer and everything else will be taken care of by them.

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