After NEET UG, the National Testing Agency (NTA) has once again landed in controversy, this time over alleged errors in the recently conducted JEE Main 2025 exam — one of India’s most prestigious and competitive engineering entrance tests.
Students flag disputed questions
According to a Times of India report, students from Rajasthan’s Kota — the country’s coaching hub for engineering aspirants — raised objections after the release of answer keys and response sheets on April 11. They flagged at least nine disputed questions spread across physics, chemistry, and mathematics papers.
Out of these, four belong to the physics section, three to chemistry, and two to mathematics. The objections aren’t minor ambiguities but allegedly involve factual inaccuracies that could impact the scores of lakhs of students nationwide.
Leading coaching institutes and subject experts have reviewed the flagged questions and confirmed several discrepancies. The errors, they say, reflect poorly on the NTA’s quality control, especially for a national-level exam that can decide the academic futures of countless students.
Educator and commentator @kamath_pramod posted a widely shared critique on X, stating, “It’s unacceptable that such basic mistakes are creeping into national-level exams.” He specifically pointed out a modern physics question from the April 7 AM shift, calling it “conceptually flawed.”
“If NTA doesn’t correct this, it’s an injustice to lakhs of students,” he added.
Another X user wrote, “Tragedy of errors – JEE Main response sheet is different from what students actually filled in many cases + lot of answers wrongly given by NTA.”
Tragedy of errors – JEE Main response sheet is different from what students actually filled in many cases + lot of answers wrongly given by @NTA_Exams @dpradhanbjp @manashTOI
— Purnima Kaul (@purnima_lodha) April 13, 2025
Technical glitches
Further concerns arose as candidates reported technical discrepancies in their response sheets. One parent shared a worrying account on social media, stating, “Indeed my daughter attempted 71 questions. During submission it showed 71 attempted, and now in the response sheet, it shows all as unanswered! Shocking!”
Despite multiple emails, there has reportedly been no official response from the NTA, deepening the frustration among students and parents alike.
This latest episode adds to the growing list of controversies involving NTA’s management of competitive exams in recent years.