JEE Online and JEE Offline: A Complete Overview

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Cons

·         Indian students being familiar with the pen and paper mode of exam since very beginning of their education, it is the best mode to choose.

·     The Pen and Paper modes can be applicable to any city and town of the country where internet can’t be made available for the online mode.

·       Candidates appearing one of the crucial exam of their life, need not to worry about nay technical glitches that can occur in the online mode.

·     In certain questions such as diagrammatic questions where measurements are required, it becomes difficult to solve on the computer screens.

·        A lengthy process of filling the OMR sheets as the students need to solve the problem and then to fill the circles properly, as the circles not filled properly shall be declared disqualified and the marks for that question if ever answered correctly shall not be given to the student.

·        Not only the answers but also several other areas in the OMR sheet are to be filled carefully, any mishaps can result in the disqualification of the entire exam and that would cost any student a whole year and a lot of mental pressure.

·      Once marked it is very difficult to change the answer. You need erase the complete circle made and then make another circle filled! This task consumes a lot of time and results in distraction as well.

·         By looking at the OMR sheet, with a lot of circles and circles all over, it also create a mental outbreak and students most of the time fill the wrong bubble for a particular question. For instance: the answer of Question 85 is say option B, and you filled the circle against question 84 as B. This can create serious problem as the entire chain and the flow breaks.

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Cons

·    Lack of Confidence: Students mostly tend to feel a lack of confidence while appearing the online exam, as reported by many students. They also answer wrongly to the question of which the answers are known to them, just because of the nervousness and lack of confidence. But it is not applicable to every candidates as everyone is not equal with the mind set and level of maturity.

·     Concentrating on the Computer screen for more than 3 hours is stressful and this can result in copying the wrong figures.

·       Some students complain of noting wrong figures from the computer to the rough sheets given for solving certain problems basically in physics and mathematics, but it can be the same while answering with the paper based mode. But yes the chances of making such errors in CBT are little high as per the students who appeared the online exam.