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CEE 2008 Wasn’t As Easy As I Had Expected It To Be

31st May 2008 was supposed to be a happy day for all the Indian engineering aspirants, mainly because it marked the ending of their 5 month long study period which began way back in December. But the CEE 2008, which was the last main examination for most of us guys, turned out to be a paper which didn’t bring a smile on your face.

Most of the people who have given the CEE would have heard that it is known to pick up questions from other engineering exams, particularly the IIT JEE. But in this year’s paper, I couldn’t spot a single question that had been lifted from somewhere else. I have solved most of the Arihant’s famous 28 Years IIT JEE Chapterwise question books, for all the three subjects, so I have a good idea about JEE questions.

Physics and Chemistry contained a lot of theory related questions, especially from chapters that require you to cram, such as Semiconductors, Atom and Nuclei, Chemistry in Everyday Life, Biomolecules, Polymers and Principles of Communication. In spite of being largely theoretical, the Physics and Chemistry parts were easy, because the multiple choices in the questions were STUPID. Even an old pair of socks could choose the right option amongst the lame options that were put along with others in the CEE Physics and Chemistry sections. For even the chapters that I had never even looked at in my life, I could guess the answers by common sense. This was mainly the reason why people found this section easy, it could have been made tougher by putting in more confusing and closely related options.

The Physics paper was the shortest, I feel, because I completed it in less than 40 minutes. Chemistry was a time eater and took more than 1 hour 20 minutes, because I did a lot of questions by eliminating options. Ditto for the first 20 questions in the Maths section.

The Maths question contained questions from dumb and illogical chapters such as Matrices and Determinants, Complex Numbers and Coordinate Geometry. The questions overall were much more difficult than the Physics and Chemistry questions. In the little time I had left, I could look at only the first 40 questions, out of which I attempted about 30-32.

Overall, I would rate the CEE to be easier than the GGSIPU 2008 entrance exam, but more difficult than my BITSAT paper.

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