Marking scheme of important engineering entrance exams

“Is there any negative marking in JEE Mains? What‘s the marking scheme for EAMCET? How many marks are deducted for a wrong answer in BITSAT?”

Visit any exam related forum, Facebook pages or discussion thread, you would come across such questions doing rounds and engineering aspirants are increasingly searching for answers to these queries.

It’s a known fact that different engineering entrance exams such as JEE(Joint Entrance Examination) Main, JEE Advanced, BITSAT, SRMEEE(Sri Ramaswamy Engineering Entrance Examination) etc, have a different and distinct marking system from one another.

In an effort to address this particular concern of students, shiksha.com brings you the exam pattern and marking system/scheme of some of the most important engineering entrance exams , here, all at one place.

JEE (Joint Entrance Examination) Main:

JEE Main comprises of two papers: Paper 1 for B.Tech courses and Paper 2 for B.Arch courses. While Paper 1 can be taken in both online and offline mode, Paper 2 is available only as Pen & Paper Based Test

Paper 1: The question paper is divided into three sections (subjects) - Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics. Students will be required to answer 30 questions from each subject making the total number of questions to be answered as 90. Since, the question paper will encompass multiple choice questions(MCQs), students will have to choose a correct response out of the four responses.

For every correct answer, students will be awarded four marks/per question while for every wrong answer, ¼ (one fourth) of the total marks of the question would be deducted. No marks will be deducted if the question is left unanswered.

Paper 2: The B.Arch paper is divided into three parts:

• Part I:  Part I comprises questions from mathematics. There are 30 objective questions for 120 marks. 
• Part II: This will be an aptitude test covering general awareness, reasoning and analytical skills with 50 objective questions for 200 marks.  
• Part III: This will be a drawing test with two questions for 70 marks.

Both the papers are 3 hour long.

JEE Advanced:

Both Paper 1 and Paper 2 will comprise three separate sections on Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics. The questions papers will be printed separately in English and in Hindi. The candidates will have to specify their preferred language of the question paper while registering for the exam online. Both papers will have only objective type questions for which the answers need to be marks on an ORS (Optical Response Sheet). The questions are designed to test comprehension, reasoning and analytical ability of candidates. There is a prescribed syllabus for the three subjects.

The pattern of the papers, marking pattern and the total marks are not revealed. But in some sections, incorrect answers may be awarded with negative marks.

BITSAT (Birla Institute of Technology and Science Aptitude Test):

The BITSAT 2014 paper will comprise 150 questions spread over four sections in totality. Here is the break-up:

Parts	Subject	No of questions
Part I	Physics	40
Part II	Chemistry	40
Part III	(a) English Proficiency	15
	(b) Logical Reasoning	10
Part IV	Mathematics/ Biology	45
		Total=150

This three hour exam will comprise multiple choice questions with four options, only one being correct. Three marks are awarded for every correct answer while every incorrect question fetches –1 mark.

Aspirants have the option to skip questions/ mark questions for further 'review'. They can go back and change any of their answers among the 150 questions, however, are not allowed to opt for more than one option as correct answer. Please note that the question paper will be in English only.

Additional Questions:

Unlike any other engineering exam, students in BITSAT have a chance to score higher. If an aspirant is able to answer all the 150 questions (without skipping any question), he/she can attempt 12 (twelve) additional questions (if there is still time left).These extra questions will be from Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics only; with four questions from each part. But, once the candidate has opted for extra questions, he/ she cannot go back for correction of any of the earlier answered 150 questions.

VITEEE (VIT University Engineering Entrance Exam):

Conducted by VIT University, VIT Engineering Entrance Exam (VITEEE) is an online exam (computer based test) of 2 hours and 30 minutes. The test comprises of objective-type multiple choice questions and is spread over three parts:

• Part I - Physics
• Part II - Chemistry
• Part III - Mathematics/Biology

Each of the three parts contains 40 questions worth one mark each, making the total marks as 120. There is no negative marking.

SRMEEE (Sri Ramaswamy Memorial Engineering Entrance Exam):

The exam is two hours thirty minutes (2:30 hours) long and the question paper will consist of 140 questions which are multiple choice/objective type in nature. 

Divided into four sections, each section will have questions from physics, chemistry, biology and mathematics. While there would be 35 questions each for physics, chemistry and mathematics, the biology section will have 50 questions.

For every correct answer, students will be given three marks and for every wrong answer in physics, chemistry and mathematics section, one mark will be deducted whereas in the biology section, 0.7 marks will be deducted.

UPSEE (Uttar Pradesh State Entrance Examination):

The exam paper for UPSEE will contain questions in the multiple choice format both in Hindi and English.

The B.Tech (Paper 1 - Physics, Mathematics and Chemistry) paper will be of three hours while the B. Arch and BHMCT/BFAD paper will two and a half hours and one and a half hours long respectively. The exam which will be conducted to offer lateral entry in B.Tech and B.Pharm to candidates will also be of one and a half hours.

Each correct answer will carry 4 marks, while there would be no negative marking for incorrect answers.

KIITEE (KIIT Entrance Examination):

The online examination is spread over three sections – Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics. Each section will comprise 40 questions from each of the sections. The total number of questions will be 120 and the exam will be 180 minutes long.

Each correct answer will fetch student 4 marks while 1 mark will be deducted for every wrong answer.

KCET(Karnataka Common Entrance Test):

The question paper for Karnataka CET (engineering courses) will be divided over three sections: Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics. Students will be required to answer a total of 60 objective questions from each of the section.

Each correct answer will be awarded 1 mark while there will be no negative marking.

The exam will be 70 minute long. Basically, aspirants will be given 80 minutes out of which 10 minutes will have to be utilized to fill /shade their particulars on the OMR answer sheet.

EAMCET (Engineering, Agriculture and Medical Common Entrance Test):

EAMCET 2014 for engineering courses will be three hour long and will consist a total of 160 questions from Mathematics (80 questions), Physics (40 questions) and Chemistry (40 questions).

The questions will be of objective type (multiple choice) format and every question will carry one mark each. All questions are of objective type (multiple choice) only and each question carries one mark.

RPET (Rajasthan Pre-Engineering Test) 2014:

The three hour paper contains 40 objective type questions each from Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics, thus making total number of questions as 120.

Each question will carry one mark each, however, there would be no negative marking for any questions answered incorrectly.

COMED K UGET (Consortium of Medical, Engineering & Dental Karnataka - Under Graduate Entrance Test):

Comprising objective type questions, COMEDK UGET 2014 exam paper will be spread three sections Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics. The three hour long paper will have 60 questions from each section making it a total of 180 questions altogether

Each correct answer will fetch one mark but there would be no negative marking for wrong answers.

KEAM (Kerala Engineering, Architecture and Medical Entrance Exam):

KEAM 2014 for engineering courses will consist of two papers - Paper 1 for Physics & Chemistry and Paper 2 for Mathematics. Each Paper will have 120 questions and total score will be 480 marks. Each question will be multiple choice type and the time to answer to each paper will be 150 minutes.

Each correct answer will be worth four marks and one mark (from the total score) will be deducted for every incorrect answer will fetch. Please note that aspirants who do not answer at least one question will be disqualified.

WBJEE (West Bengal Joint Entrance Examination):

Aspirants will have to take a written examination for Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics. Please note that 33.33% of mark (1/3) will be deducted for every incorrect answer.

Category 3 has more than one correct option. The marking scheme for Category 3 questions will be:

2 x (no of correct responses) / (Total no of correct options)

Subject	Category 1 (1 mark each)	Category 2  (2 marks each)	Category 3   (2 marks each)	Total Marks	Duration
Maths	60 questions	15 questions	5 questions	100	2 hours
Physics	45 questions	10 questions	5	75	1.5 hours
Chemistry	45 questions	10 questions	5	75	1.5 hours

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