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JEE Main 2024: The National Testing Agency (NTA) has issued a notification addressing several concerns raised by students following the announcement of results for the Joint Entrance Exam (JEE) Main Session 1. The clarification comes in response to numerous candidates expressing their concerns regarding purported discrepancies in the results through social media platforms.

Emphasising that the JEE Main 2024 Session 1 examination adhered to the norms and procedures established for the administration of high-stakes exams, the NTA assured candidates that the test was conducted to provide fair and equitable opportunities for all participants.

"As per the norms followed by NTA, various question papers of a similar nature in content were prepared and randomly selected for each shift without knowledge of the difficulty level of each question paper. The varied difficulty level in question papers is an inherent part and parcel of multi-shift examination and thus normalisation is the preferred mode for deciding scores. There is no equivalence between raw scores and normalised scores. The 'Normalization procedure based on Percentile Score' was used to ensure that candidates were neither benefitted nor disadvantaged due to the difficulty level of the examination," reads the notification.

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Normalisation Process and Percentile Scores:

According to its policy, the NTA does not disclose raw scores; instead, it provides percentiles. These percentile scores are normalised scores utilised in compiling merit lists. The normalisation procedure, internationally recognised, facilitates direct comparison by transforming marks onto a standardised scale. Detailed information regarding this process can be found in the JEE (Main) 2024 information bulletin.

According to the NTA, the normalisation procedure was implemented to ensure a uniform distribution of candidates, as recommended by a committee of experts comprising esteemed professors from the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Indian Institute of Science (IISc), and the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs). The committee's report was initially issued in November 2018 and later reviewed in October 2020.

"The date/shift/slot of examination is randomly allotted by the computer as per the normalisation process. During Session 1, it was ensured that each shift was equally distributed in terms of candidate count, gender, and category," reads the notification.

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