Nov 16-2022
The National Testing Agency (NTA) has released the provisional final answer key for the JEE 2022 (Session 1) BE/ BTech Paper 1, which was conducted over two shifts between June 23 and 29 at various centres across 501 cities in India and 22 cities outside the country.
In all, four questions have been dropped/ were found to have multiple correct answers. Per reports, two of these were from the first shift of the exam (June 24), while two more were from the second shift conducted on June 29. Under the institution's guidelines, if a question is found to have multiple correct answers, candidates who selected any of the correct answers get full marks for that question; if a question is dropped entirely, candidates will have their equivalent percentages calculated based on the remaining questions.
From exam conducted on June 24, question ID 101678 has been dropped while question ID 1382 was found to have two correct answers. For the June 26 paper, question ID 101070 has been dropped, while question IDs 501121 and 501111 have been dropped from the June 29 paper.
Provisional answer keys had first been published on July 2, with a two-day window for challenges to be submitted (closing at 5 pm on July 4). This was later extended to 11.50 pm on July 4.
For clarifications related to the 2022 JEE (main), candidates can write to the NTA at jeemain@nta.ac.in or call the agency at (011) 40759000. For further information.
