JEE Main 2022: Candidate claims his percentile score changed from 99.4% to 77%, preventing him from applying for IIT Entrance.

A JEE Main candidate who had scored in the 99th percentile in both his first and second attempts at the engineering entrance exam claims that his score has been changed to the 77th percentile. The student says that when he tried to apply for the IIT entrance exam – JEE advanced – he was not allowed to do so as his score had changed and a new scorecard was issued which reflected his score as 77th percentile.

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When the student checked his results on August 8, he was shocked to see that his score had dropped significantly. He had scored 99.4 percentile, but when he applied for advanced on August 10, the marksheet displayed a different score. Both mark sheets had the same student name, image, and other details, but the marks were different. With the revised score, he was not eligible to apply for JEE Advanced as only the top 2.5 lakh rank holders are allowed to apply for the same.

The student’s father, Anil Agarwal, has written a complaint to the National Testing Agency – the exam conducting body. In talking to the media, the father of the student said, “August 11 is the last date to apply for the IIT entrance exam. If the issue is not resolved by then, my child’s year will be wasted. I request the authorities to take prompt action.”

This is not the first case of an error in a JEE student’s marks. In the past, a JEE main candidate had alleged that his answers were changed. The father of the candidate took to social media to claim that his son received two different response sheets. The father alleged that when they downloaded the response sheet on August 3, the answers given by his son were different than the ones mentioned on the website on August 4.