JEE Main 2020: NTA releases important notification on Numerical Value Questions, Download at jeemain.nta.nic.in

JEE Main 2020 Important Notification: NTA or the National Testing Agency has released an important notification yesterday addressed to all aspirants who have appeared for the JEE Main 2020 Exam for January session. The NTA notification released yesterday on jeemain.nta.nic.in provides important clarification about the Numerical Value Questions and how the answers for them will be evaluated by the exam authority. According to the notification, Exam authority will accept answers for Questions which contain Numerical Values in JEE Main 2020 exam in different mathematical formats which are expressed through various decimal point systems. To help JEE Main 2020 aspirants better understand the scoring pattern for Numerical Questions, the link to detailed notification is provided below:

JEE Main 2020 Notification about Numerical Questions – Direct Link

Notification Clarifies Correct Values of Zeros

According to the latest notification released by the NTA, the answers to Numerical Question in JEE Main Exam will have answers also in numeric format. And for such answers, the exam authority has said that it will accept answers submitted by the candidates in different formats based on values of zeros. The notification states that “the value of zeroes in decimal would be disregarded and all equivalent decimal values would be marked as correct.”

Furthermore, the notice also provides a detailed example of this which says “‘if the Answer for the Numerical value Questions is, say 5 then all the values like 5, 5.0, 5.00, 5.000, 5.0000, 05, 05.0, 05.00, 05.000, 05.0000 are correct answers.’

No Negative Marking for Numerical Questions

While going through the notification, candidates must also note that the Numerical Questions asked in JEE Main 2020 exam do not attract any negative marking for wrong answers. In other words, if a student has given incorrect answer for the numerical question, the student would be scored a zero for that question and not a negative 1.

JEE Main 2020 Answer Key

Earlier in the week, on 13^th January 2020, NTA had released a detailed answer key for JEE Main 2020 Exam held in January. The answer key was released online and was accessible through official exam portal i.e. jeemain.nta.nic.in. Candidates had time until 15^th January 2020 to raise objections and challenge the answer key released by the exam conducting authority. Now with the window to raise objections over, NTA will now compile the final answer key, which will be used by it to evaluate the answer books of the candidates.