Jack Fraser is an advanced-level Physics student from the Oxford university. He was dragged into a challenge which required him to solve the IIT-JEE test paper. He got the answers 100% correct and he solved the paper in very less time.
In an unfortunate incident, a British student was trolled by Indians for completing the IIT-JEE question paper on quora within half the time and that too with all the answers correct. A student of MPhys Integrated Masters degree at the University of Oxford, Jack Fraser seemed to have solved the question paper for fun in Quora. But instead of getting appreciated for the same, he and his family got trolled and abused.
It all started when Jack was dragged into a challenge which required him to answer the IIT-JEE questions. It is to be noted that the Quora account of Jack has a lot of these questions, followed by his answers. On one such ocassion, someone asked "can Jack Fraser solve the JEE paper?" He was also asked,"How much time does Jack Fraser spend researching a question before answering?" "will Jack Fraser ever write a book?" But what hooked Jack was the JEE challenge. So, he decided to take it up.
All hell broke loose after his success. He wrote on quora," "I thought it would be a laugh to sit down and do the paper, and see how I did. There were two papers, about 80 multiple choice questions each. Now. This is where I made my mistake. I told them how I breezed through it. I did it in about a third of the allowed time, and with 100 per cent correct answers."
Now that did not go down too well with Indians and they started abusing him for cracking the otherwise the "very tough exam" for the Indians. Jack tried to pacify the Indians' anger saying, "I am a third-year physics student. This is a high school-level paper, taken by 17-year-olds who haven't spent 3 years at university studying physics, I have been sitting physics exams every year for 7 years now. Multiple choice makes exams immeasurably easier... it thus comes as no surprise that I found a test designed for people much less educated in physics than me pretty easy. It would be significantly more worrying if Pounds 27,000 being spent on 3 years at one of the best universities on this planet didn't prepare me to ace an admissions test for another university."
But that did nothing to help and it reached the Facebook premises too. He rued, "My mother got some graphic pictures of male genitalia. My brother got sent threats. My Facebook profile picture was reported for graphic indecency a few times, and I had a flood of abusive message appearing in my Message Request box. One guy sent me a picture of my (old) university accommodation, saying they knew where I lived, and that he was going to shiv me... It was really rather traumatic."
Meanwhile, some Indians are apologetic too. However, Jack clarifies that he knows that it is just a group that is behaving in such a way. He states that he has nothing against Indians and India and people don't need to apologise to him. He says, "I am in fact madly in love with one of your countrywomen, and am perfectly aware that this is a small, idiotic minority. There is no need to fret that I am tarring all Indians with the same brush."
