This post will help you know what rank you can expect on 26^th May when JEE result would be declared.

To speculate your rank it is important that you remember your attempts in exam and you have gone through solutions and answer keys available at various sites. You can download detailed solutions from 100percentile or Vidyamandir website.

While calculating your marks it is advised to you that you should not include partial marks and also don’t include those for which you are not sure what you marked in the exam.

Based on our experience, calculations and last year rank data provided by IIT, we have made a following table to guide you what rank you can expect. This table also includes actual marks/ranks obtained by students in IITJEE 2009 result.

Note: This is just a speculation based on expert judgment. So it will give you a rough idea. There is no authenticity of this data.

-VMC/100Percentile

Video (IITJEE 2010 Exam Analysis by Manmohan Gupta, Vidyamandir Classes)

Change in Pattern

Change of pattern of exam is very important to select the good talent. The change in pattern of the exam brings unpredictability and students who can think on the fly and has good IQ perform better as compared to those who slog a lot.

In last few years equal weightages were given to paper-1 and paper-2 but this year the trend has been broken. Paper-1 was for 252 marks where as paper-2 was only 237 marks with physics, chemistry and mathematics combined together. Also in paper-1 there was more number of questions in paper-2. Paper-1 had 84 questions in all whereas paper-2 had only 57 questions. It means paper-1 had 47% more questions than paper-1. Why IIT would have done this? IMO, generally students get tired in paper-2 and find it difficult to perform up to their abilities.

Another change was the partial marking in more than one choice correct type of questions. It was never there in IIT but this year you can get marks even if you could not tick all correct choice.

Difficulty Level

Mathematics :

Mathematics paper was definitely trickier than last year papers specially paper-2. It was little more difficult to score this time.

In paper-1 there were 28 questions as compared to 20 questions in JEE 2009. With same level of questions it was expected to solve 50% more number of questions. Many students were surprised and got confused when they see 28 questions to be done in 1 hour. Students who spent more time in trying questions lost their productive time and had to leave those which they could have done correct.

Paper-2 though had less number of questions compared to paper-1 but was equally or more difficult to score. The questions were not straight forward and had lots of calculation steps. The students who could pick the average level questions would perform better than others. There is no change in number of questions as compared to JEE 2009 paper-2.

Analysis: So overall I would rate mathematics little difficult to score as compared to last year. So average score should fall due to this. Some counter effect would come from more than one correct type of questions where partial parking was introduced for the first time.

Chemistry :

In Chemistry paper – 1 and 2, some of the questions were very easy and straight forward (especially Physical Chemistry). Organic Chemistry questions were also straight forward with a moderate degree of difficulty but still easier as compared to last year exam.

Inorganic chemistry was in a totally different format as compared to last year. The paper didn’t require the mugging of inorganic reactions but the questions were much more factual and most of them were based on qualitative aspect of Inorganic chemistry.

In paper – 2, there were only 2 match the columns questions as compared to 4 last year exam. Also, the single answer questions and link comprehension questions were easier with a moderate difficulty in Subjective questions.

Since there were more questions (unexpected) in the paper – 1 but lesser difficulty level along with some vagueness in the questions and partial marking in multiple answer questions, Chemistry is roughly at the same level (in terms of scores) as compared to last year.

Physics :

Since the paper – 1 had more questions than the last year, this should obviously decrease the individual score in Physics. In Paper – 2, the number of questions were same.

Overall, the difficulty level may be assumed to be slightly on higher side. Also, the paper had more rigorous calculations requirement relative to last year.

Paper – 2 level was roughly the same as compared to last year exam.

So, as per the analysis, scoring in Physics paper would be little less as compared to last year.

What rank students can get in IITJEE 2010?

Students who appeared on Sunday are worried about the performances and want to know what rank they can get based on their performance. Following data will help them speculate their rank based on the expected score they are getting. This table also shows the actual marks obtained by students in JEE 2009 exam out of 480.

-VMC/100percentile