The recently concluded second session of the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Main 2025 has stirred widespread concern among students, parents, and experts due to alleged discrepancies in response sheets and multiple errors in the answer key.
Held on April 2, 3, 4, 7, and 9, the exam was followed by the release of provisional answer keys by the National Testing Agency (NTA).
However, what was meant to be a routine process has snowballed into a controversy, with candidates taking to social media to report glaring inconsistencies.
Many students have claimed that the response sheets made available by the NTA do not reflect their actual attempts during the exam. Several posts on X (formerly Twitter) highlighted mismatches, including answers marked as “unattempted” despite students recalling that they had responded to them.
Purnima Kaul, a JEE Mentor at JEE One, a virtual educational platform for JEE training, took to X (formerly Twitter), pointing out that the NTA-provided response sheet differed significantly from what they had answered in the exam.
“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,” she wrote.
Others echoed similar concerns, adding that the issue has only deepened the anxiety of lakhs of aspirants.
Parents, too, have joined the chorus, accusing the NTA of negligence.
“My daughter had attempted 71 questions. The exam screen showed 71 attempts during submission, but the response sheet now shows all questions as unanswered. This is shocking,” wrote a parent on X.
Apart from the mismatched responses, factual mistakes in the provisional answer key have also been reported.
According to The Times of India, nine errors have been flagged — four in Physics, three in Chemistry, and two in Mathematics.
Despite the rising complaints, the NTA has not issued any formal statement addressing these issues.
