Is the 2015 JEE Advanced paper still haunting students, as was raised in Kota Factory Season 3?

Uncertainty and a high degree of difficulty are characteristics of the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Advanced paper. The players in a scene from the recently released third season of Kota Factory on Netflix are seen talking about the JEE Advanced 2015 exam paper.

The JEE Advanced Organizing Institute, IIT Bombay, reduced the cut-off following evaluation in 2015 because a sufficient number of candidates were unable to pass. However, this was completed before the results were announced.

The actors in the Kota Factory series are shown in a packed classroom that is about to end. Vaibhav Pandey was asked by a student if he had heard that Balmukund Meena and Pandey had failed to solve the 2015 question paper.

Vaibhav became irate at the question and yelled, "Yes, we could not." If you can, go ahead and solve it. Go win the World Cup of 2015 as well. Will you?

Once his companions had calmed him down, the student went on to make fun of Pandey and Meena for doing the board exam paper, joking that they might not even get a 75.

For applicants in the General category, the minimum score needed to qualify for JEE Advanced in 2015 was 100; for OBC-NCL, it was 70; for SC, it was 52; and for ST, it was 48.

The top scorer in JEE Advanced that year was 469 out of 504 total, or 93.05 percent. This was less than the best scorer from 2014, who received 334 out of 350 points, or 95.42 percent of the possible points. The top scorers in 2016 and 2017 received 320 out of 372 points (86.02%) and 339 out of 366 points (92.62%), respectively.

The JEE Main cut-off for the General category was 115 in 2014, while it again dropped to 100 in 2016.

Kota Factory: Do students still have nightmares after the JEE Advanced 2015 paper? Kota Factory: Do students still have nightmares about the JEE Advanced 2015 paper? (Express photo/image designed by Angshuman Maity)

Uncertainty and a high degree of difficulty are characteristics of the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Advanced paper. The players in a scene from the recently released third season of Kota Factory on Netflix are seen talking about the JEE Advanced 2015 exam paper.

The JEE Advanced Organizing Institute, IIT Bombay, reduced the cut-off following evaluation in 2015 because a sufficient number of candidates were unable to pass. However, this was completed before the results being announced.

The JEE Advanced paper in 2015, according to Kumar, was undoubtedly a very good collection of questions if he analyses them as a teacher; however, from the perspective of a student taking the exam in that short amount of time and in an environment that stresses the students out anyway, the paper was difficult.

The educationist also mentioned that the matrix-match type questions were introduced for the first time in 2015, along with comprehension type questions, and that there were multiple one-of-its-own questions in the physics and chemistry paper of JEE Advanced 2015.

The exam has a weightage of 504 out of 350, which is normal.

Aditi Garg, a teenager who took the exam at the time, stated, "Even though I had practiced a lot of paper styles, the paper pattern was unexpected and I was quite shocked." The 2015 JEE Advanced paper was extremely challenging and unique.

"There were negative markings on the multiple-choice questions, and there were numerous correct answers in some of them. It was challenging to choose whether to respond to a question you weren't sure about when there was so much bad marking, she continued.