NEW DELHI: The joint admission board of IIT has told the Supreme Court that it is not possible to revise the merit list of Joint Entrance Examination (Advanced) by scrapping bonus marks awarded to all students for wrong questions, saying that around 30 thousand candidates had already been allotted seats in different engineering colleges across the country.
Responding to a notice issued by the Supreme Court, IIT justified its decision to award bonus marks to all students to ensure that no candidate was prejudiced on account of printing inconsistencies. It said the decision on bonus marks was taken by a committee of experts after exploring all other options and there was no infirmity in the decision. It urged the court not to entertain plea of…
