IIT-JEE, the most challenging of the Engineering Entrance exams in the country
and probably the world has proved that it has not lost its charm at all and has
retained its glory as ever. IIT-JEE 2010 was conducted on 11th April 2010 with
paper 1 from 9.00 – 12.00 hrs and paper 2 from 14.00 to 17.00 hrs.
IIT-JEE 2010 question papers were offered in ten different versions - 0 to 9.
All contestants would essentially have the same questions, but the order of
questions was jumbled in each section in the ten versions.
The order of subjects in both papers were the same – Chemistry, Mathematics and
Physics but the total marks, the number of questions and types of questions in
both papers were distinct from each other.
Paper-1
Paper1 had 84 questions in total - in the order of Chemistry, Mathematics and Physics. Each subject had 28 questions and the pattern was exactly the same for all the subjects. All questions carried 3 marks. Hence the maximum mark for the paper is 252.
| Type of question | No of Questions | Marks for a Correct Answer | Negative Marking | Total Marks for the section |
| Section I - Single Correct Choice Type | 8 | 3 | -1 | 24 |
| Section II - Multiple Correct Choice Type | 5 | 3 | NIL | 24 |
| Section III - Paragraph Type | 5 | 3 | -1 | 15 |
| Section IV - Integer Type | 10 | 3 | NIL | 30 |
What was new in IIT-JEE 2010 in comparison with earlier years – Paper 1:
- In the paragraph type 2 passages were there of which one passage had 3 questions and the other had 2 questions. Earlier all passages used to have the same number of questions.
- Likewise partial marks are awarded for correct answers in Multiple Correct Type questions.
- There were No negative marks for the Integer type questions and for the Multiple Correct Choice Type.
Paper 2
Paper 1 had 57 questions in total - in the order of Chemistry, Mathematics and Physics. Each subject had 19 questions and as in paper 1 the pattern was exactly the same across the subjects. But questions had differential markings, each subject had 79 marks and the maximum mark for the paper is 237.
| Type of question | No of Questions | Marks for a Correct Answer | Negative Marking | Total Marks for the section |
| Section I - Single Correct Choice Type | 6 | 5 | -2 | 30 |
| Section II - Multiple Correct Choice Type | 5 | 3 | NIL | 15 |
| Section III - Paragraph Type | 6 | 3 | -1 | 18 |
| Section IV - Integer Type | 2 | 8 | NIL | 16 |
What was new in IIT-JEE 2010 in comparison with earlier years – Paper 2:
- Single Correct Choice questions were valued heavier than before - 5 marks for a correct answer with (– 2) for an incorrect answer.