The first ever online Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Mains 2013 turned out to be a nightmare to city students on Tuesday.
Hundreds of students were a bundle of nerves when there was power cut at the fag end of the three-hour computer-based JEE at Don Bosco Institute, which was one of the two examination centres in the city.
Recalling the experience, Anirudh CV, a II PUC student of Jain College, who was at the Don Bosco Institute for the JEE Mains, said, “Towards the end of the exam, when there were just 10 minutes for the session to end, the computer turned off due to power failure at the lab. Students panicked as we did not anticipate any technical errors at the moment of examination.”
“After about 15 minutes, the power connection was restored. Since the server also shut down at the time that we had last logged in, the examination and the answers keyed in were restored as they were.
Though students were well trained with the mock online tests, the power cut was a bad experience,” explained Anirudh, who had taken coaching from BASE institute.
He also added that the overall difficulty levels in JEE Mains were moderate, but the Physics portion was difficult.
However, Anil Kumar, a II PUC student from Jain College who attended the test at Acharya Institute of Technology, the second test centre, said the examination was a smooth affair.
The JEE Mains will also be conducted on April 22, 23 and 25 in the city.