The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has finally decided to provide students who appeared for the JEE (Main) with a photocopy of the OMR sheet, answer key and calculation sheet. There was earlier reluctance on part of the board to do so even though there was an increased demand for the same.

TOI had reported last week about complaints from students that many candidates scored much lower than they had expected. Many of these students can't appear for JEE (Advanced) as they have failed to meet the cut-off mark of 113.

Abhishek Bansal, who heads a coaching institute in Nagpur, said, "Providing these documents will increase transparency in JEE. Once CBSE releases the answer keys then students can verify it and be sure that they have been marked correctly. While the computer won't commit mistakes in marking but this will help in ensuring that CBSE had chosen the right answers."

Students have to apply for the photocopies by paying a fee of Rs500 via a demand draft (payable to Secretary, CBSE) at New Delhi. The application has to be received by CBSE before June 15 and the board will dispatch the documents only by Speed Post. Even those students who had applied for these documents under the Right To Information (RTI) Act will now have to reapply under the new guidelines.

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Courtesy: The Times of India