Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) for IITs
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JEE
Rules, criteria
Aspirants can withdraw admissions if unhappy with seat allotted
The Times of India, Jun 17, 2016
Students can withdraw admission after every round
Aspirants for seats in the IITs, NITs and other centrally funded technological institutions (CFTIs) will be able to withdraw their admissions after every round if they are unhappy with the seat allotted and if they are not hopeful of getting a better seat in subsequent rounds. The Joint Seat Allocation Authority (JOSAA) for admissions to 92 institutes has decided to provide the withdrawal option after several students were inconvenienced last year when the feature was not available. The seat allotment process is likely to begin from June 24, subject to the availability of class XII scores of the various state boards. The JOSAA portal will go live on Friday with new rules and regulations for the admission process this year.
The authority also decided to include another or more rounds, if time permits, allowing the authority to fill all seats in premier institutes. In 2015, the joint seat allocation process began on July 1 after many of the 45 education boards failed to submit students' class XII scores, which is given 40% weightage while calculating JEE (Main) ranks. The authority makes use of JEE (Main) and JEE (Advanced) ranks of students for the process. “Since we started late last year, there was no time to conduct four rounds. In 2016, we plan to start by June 24, which will enable us to include more rounds. We may have four or more rounds this year, which will benefit students with lower ranks to take up seats that are vacant,“ the professor said.
“If students are allotted a seat which is lower on their preference list and would like to opt for a staterun engineering institute closer home, they will be allowed to release the seat. This seat will be made available to students in subsequent rounds.The withdrawal option will benefit students and institutes,“ said the professor.
Minimum qualification criterion, 2016
The Times of India, Aug 01 2016
Somdatta Basu 6040 admn formula now scrapped for NITs, IIITs
The Joint Entrance Examination Apex Board (JAB) has given nod to 31National Institutes of Technology (NIT), Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology (IIEST)-Shibpur, IIITs and government technology institutes to scrap the existing 6040 weightage formula for admissions.
Candidates vying for seats will have to secure atleast 75% marks in the higher secondary (HS) examination or rank among the top 20 percentile in their respective board exams. This will be the minimum qualification criterion, besides the rank secured in entrance test.
IITs and ISM-Dhanbad follow the same criteria for admissions: only after meeting the cutoffs does a student get a seat through counselling based on their IIT-JEE (Advanced) rank. “At the moment, the minimum criteria is to pass in all subjects in HS and secure 45% in the aggregate. Sixty per cent weightage is on the JEE-Main rank and 40% on board exam results.This will be no longer valid from the 2017 examination,“ a senior JAB member said.
Director of IIT-Kharagpur, Partha Pratim Chakra borty, confirmed that a circular has been issued whereby the new qualifying rules have been notified.
“The ministry of human resource development has also given the nod for the JAB proposal. If the student fails to meet the desired cutoff in the HS exam, then his her rank in the entrance test will be nullified,“ the director of an NIT said.
Sources said all the institutes are also likely to admit candidates based on the same entrance exam as IITs (JEE Advanced). “Currently , it is unlikely that JEE-Main will be scrapped because several technology colleges and institutes run by the state take in students based on their rank in JEE-Main. By the end of 2017, a decision will be taken,“ the JAB member added. The JAB is likely to take a call soon on holding the single entrance test.
The aspirants
A profile: 2022, 2023
Manash Gohain, January 23, 2023: The Times of India
State wise city wise and category wise
From: Manash Gohain, January 23, 2023: The Times of India
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A profile of JEE aspirants for the years 2022 and 2023
State wise city wise and category wise
New Delhi: Maharashtra leads with the highest number of aspirants for the JEE (Main) 2023 January session, with 1,03,039, or nearly 12% of total registrations. It is followed by UP wi th 99,714 candidates (11. 6%) and Andhra Pradesh with 91,799 candidates (10. 6%). Only two other states — Telangana (86,840) and Rajasthan (59,641) — have more than 50,000 registration s. Among cities, Delhi leads with 36,530 aspirants, followed by Hyderabad/Secunderabad (32,246) and Kota(24,253).
The entrance test for admission to engineering, architecture and planning undergraduate courses in centrallyfunded institutions like NITs and IIITs as well as the eligibility test for JEE (Advanced) for admission to IITs will commence from Tuesday.
While the National Testing Agency (NTA) in its December notification stated January 31 was the last date of exam, the latest notification issued Saturday said there will be no test on January 27 and the exam will be on February 1 for Paper 1 (for BTech/ BE programmes).
Coaching by Good Samaritans
Central Coalfields Ltd, Ranchi
Sanjay Dutta, CCL execs engineer IIT-JEE success from poor homes, June 11, 2018: The Times of India
Every evening after finishing work, a clutch of executives of Ranchi-based Central Coalfields Ltd (CCL) begin their labour of love by coaching students from poor households for entrance exams to their former alma mater — IITs — and other prestigious engineering institutions. On Sunday, the toil of these former IITians saw two of their students qualify this year’s IIT-JEE (Advanced).
Nikhil Nishchhal, son of a farmer, and Siddhant Prasad, whose father is a tailor, are both products of the ‘CCL Ke Lal’ programme run by the staterun firm as part of its CSR (corporate social responsibility). A brainchild of company chairman Gopal Singh, the programme this year saw 11 out of the 14 selected students qualifying the JEE (Main) and two cracking the JEE (Advanced).
The scheme was launched in 2012 with 11 boys as an outreach towards poor families affected by CCL’s projects. Under the scheme, meritorious boys belonging to project-affected families are selected after Class X for free coaching by CCL executives who are IIT pass-outs themselves.
Along with the coaching, CCL also provides the selected students formal schooling for class XI and XII in one of the best schools of Ranchi — DAV Gandhinagar. Since these students are from families from far-flung areas, CCL also provides free boarding and lodging facilities in Ranchi.
Inspired by the scheme’s success, CCL has launched a similar programme for girls under the moniker, ‘CCL Ki Ladli’. The company expanded the ambit of these two schemes in September last year, with coal and railway minister Piyush Goyal launching video conferencing-based interactive ‘smart classes’.
Year-wise results, trends
2016: School boards that fared the best
The Times of India, May 13 2016
In JEE's top 100, 50 from CBSE schools
Hemali Chhapia
There is an elite JEE club -the 100 highest scorers. They are the ones who don't need to prioritise their options, they can choose their colleges and streams.
In 2016, the blue-chip club consists of 50 candidates from CBSE schools, followed by 21from the Telangana state board -two boards that saw 52% of their students make the cut in JEE (Main).
Maharashtra ranked third, with seven candidates from its state board among the top 100 JEE (Main) scorers. In all, 10,627 students from the Maharashtra state board have cleared the first hurdle and registered for JEE (Advanced), the gateway to IITs. CBSE schools saw the largest share of students clearing JEE (Main), followed by 11,040 from the Telangana board.
“Over time, we have seen that maximum students have come from CBSE. But below that, the order has altered,“ said a JEE (Advanced) official. In 2013, for instance, over 80% came from just three high school boards: CBSE and the state boards of Andhra Pradesh and Punjab.Next year, a large count of candidates was from five boards -CBSE, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Gujarat.
The biggest fall has been that of Rajasthan, which has slid to number four this year and has only one candidate among the top 100 scorers. The state's desert town of Kota, which attracts thousands of students every year, has over time nosedived in securing top slots in JEE (Main).
For long, when it came to getting into the IITs, the right coaching centre was what mattered. But the new entrance exam system has changed the rules of the game.Now, if you want to get into an IIT, it appears that passing Class XII from the right board gives you an edge.
2017: UP, Telugu states, Kota, Super 30 excel
Delhi boy 3rd in exam for IIT, topper from Haryana, June 12, 2017: The Times of India
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Sarvesh Mehtani of Panchkula's Bhavan Vidyalaya topped the Joint Entrance Exam (Advanced), countrywide, this year. Pune boy Akshat Chugh (Delhi Public School) was all-India second (with a score of 335), and Delhi's Ananye Agarwal (Hope Hall Foundation School) was third. The merit list was announced.
Ramya Narayanasamy , from Madhapur, Hyderabad, with an all-India rank of 35, was the topper among the girls, and Shafil Maheen of Talakkad, Kerala, bagged top place in the south zone.
With 10,240 of a total of 50,455 candidates across the country , IIT-Madras zone accounted for the most successful candidates in the JEE (Advanced) test results. IIT-Bombay , with 9,893 qualifiers, was second among seven zones.
It was followed by Delhi, with 9,207 qualifiers, Kan pur (6,809), Kharagpur (6,138), Roorkee (5,050) and Guwahati (3,118), said a statement from IIT-Madras, the organising institute for JEE (Advanced) this year.
The IIT-Roorkee and IITDelhi zones each has three candidates in the top 10 ranks, IIT-Bombay has two, and Madras and Kanpur one each. The south zone also had the largest number of qualifiers in the top 100, with a total of 29.
Around 2.2 lakh students were eligible to write the JEE (Advanced) this year, with the quota increasing by 20,000 over 2016. The number of students eligible to take the test climbed from 1.5 lakh in 2015 to 2 lakh in 2016 due to an increase in IIT seats.
As many as 1.72 lakh students registered for the `Advanced' round of the entrance examination, of which 1.59 lakh -up from 1.47 lakh in 2016 -took the test for the 10,000-plus seats across the 23 IITs.
The gender gap on IIT campuses remains as wide as ever. While 33,358 girls registered for the exam, there were three times more boys (1.38 lakh). A total of 43,318 boys accounted for 86% of the successful candidates this year, with 7,137 girls qualifying.
Seven candidates qualified under the foreign category. Despite the IITs earmarking 1,000 slots for foreign can didates, only 598 foreign students registered for the Advanced round, of which 109 appeared and seven qualified.This year, foreign students had six centres to choose from, including Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Singapore, Ethiopia and the UAE.
2018
2018: 65,000 cleared Mains, but did not take final test
Not every engineering aspirant is in thrall of IITs. The JEE (Advanced) has seen a 30% dropout rate. About 65,000-odd candidates who made the cut in the qualifying JEE (Main) did not sign up to cross the second barrier for joining IITs. Interestingly, the largest fall has been from the open category candidates.
Among them, a little more than 42% candidates who cleared the JEE (Main) did not register for the Advanced. The numbers were the best for OBC-NCL (non-creamy layer) students.
Chairman of JEE, IIT-Kanpur, professor Shalabh said, number of registrations was likely to rise a bit as details from various banks would come in a day or two.
Gender-wise, 1.2 lakh boys from the 1.8 lakh who cleared the Main registered for the Advanced. Of the 50,000 girls, 32,923 would take the Advanced test on May 20. Last year too, 1.7 lakh students of the 2.2 lakh who qualified in the JEE (Main) had registered for the second level.
“The difficulty level of Main and Advanced is very different. There may be some candidates who are likely to, based on their scores in the Main, get into an NIT in a stream of their choice or join a top engineering college,” said a faculty.
Coaching institutes said undergraduate engineering in foreign universities was also trending. Some students, who might have taken the Main as a backup plan, would have got into a top university abroad and hence did not sign up for taking the Advanced exam.
This year, the qualifying scores in the Main were scaled down so that more candidates would be eligible for the IIT entrance test. The overall cut-off for all categories slipped considerably, with the common rank list cut-off dropping from 81 to 74. A total of 2.3 lakh candidates qualified for the Advanced exam, including 1.8 lakh boys and 50,000 girls.
Interestingly, of this year’s total candidates who qualified to take the Advanced exam, 1.1 lakh were from the general category. A little more than 65,313 were OBC-NCL, 34,425 were SC and 17,256 were ST candidates.
2018/ Only 36 foreign students registered in 2018
Despite holding a good ground in global rankings, IITs have failed to catch the fancy of international aspirants this year. Only 36 candidates have registered for JEE (Advanced)—the entry level test for admission to IITs—this year as against 69 last year. Eventually, only 31 appeared for the test last year and seven qualified.
Not just the rankings, IITs, on their own, have been taking mindful efforts in the last few years to increase students’ diversity on campus. Only last year, the premier institutes decided to reach out to international students in Sri Lanka, Nepal, Singapore, Bangladesh, Ethiopia and the UAE, and have been holding exams at these centres. “We have been releasing admission details from time to time on our website and are also taking all measures to promote the institutes in these countries. We approach the Indian embassies in the selected countries with all the admission data required to ensure a smooth conduct of the test,” said an official from the JEE (advanced) committee.
However, the efforts are not translating into numbers for the country’s elite group of institutes. “Our country has to offer good liveable conditions, safety and security, better social conditions to international students to make it a lucrative destination. Why do our students prefer studying in the western part of Europe and not Eastern Europe? Why do we prefer going to Northern America instead of south. It is the same case here. People look at options to study abroad also for a prospective career destination. Holding exams in select countries may not yield desirable results,” said a professor.
2018: a 64% drop in IIT qualifiers
Hemali Chhapia, JEE (A) shocker: 64% drop in IIT qualifiers, June 11, 2018: The Times of India
From: Hemali Chhapia, JEE (A) shocker: 64% drop in IIT qualifiers, June 11, 2018: The Times of India
The number of candidates qualifying for IITs dipped to 18,138, from 50,455 last year, in the JEE (Advanced) results declared on Sunday. The 64% drop in the number of qualified candidates has raised doubts whether there are enough students to fill all the seats at the premier Indian Institutes of Technology.
Pranav Goyal from Panchkula district of Haryana topped the exam scoring 337/360. Five of the top ten ranks have been secured by candidates from Kota, with the coaching capital reinforcing its position as the mecca for preparation for the JEE (Advanced). And, for a first time, two candidates from the physically challenged category have made it to the elite club: Lay Jain (all India rank
9) and Neel Gupta (10th).
“This is a happy situation where the two boys have overcome so many odds to make it to the top,” said M L Shar ma, JEE (A) chair man from IIT Roorkee. Asked about the fall in number of students making the cut, he said that as the minimum qualifying scores were already pre-defined, the IITs found that fewer candidates had scored 10% in each subject and 35% in aggregate.
“We have qualified 1.6 times the number of candidates to the seats available in all the IITs,” said professor Shalabh S, JEE Advanced chairman from IIT Kanpur, the organising school for the entrance exam.
This year, a total of 2,076 (12%) girls have qualified, a 14% drop from last year’s 7,137.
Delhi zone tops: IIT-Delhi zone accounted for the largest number of candidates who qualified from north India. Not only have 5,072 or almost 28% of students who made the cut come from here, but even among the top 10 five are from the Delhi zone. One in every three in the top 100 is from this zone and the largest count of top-500 rankers also come from the Delhi zone (152).
MHRD asks IITs to lower cut-off marks
1,000 Seats Would Have Gone Vacant
In a dramatic turn of events, the IITs that were confident of filling seats across campuses with a small pool of 18,000-odd candidates were asked to lower their entry bar by the Union ministry of human resources and development (MHRD) on Thursday. In Monday’s edition, after the JEE (Advanced) results were declared on Sunday, TOI was the only paper to raise doubts on whether all seats would be filled.
R Subrahmanyam, secretary, higher education, MHRD, said: “The ministry intervened as otherwise over a 1,000 seats would have remained vacant. The extended list will be issued by IIT-Kanpur. The first merit list would have been inadequate to fill up all the seats.”
The lowering of cutoff is being looked upon as interference from the big bosses, but premier engineering schools were asked to drop their cutoffs such that there were twice as many candidates as the number of seats. Result: With the cutoff falling to 90 from 126, there are now 31,988 qualified candidates, up from 18,138. Earlier, without the preparatory course, there were 14,304 candidates. The number of qualified overseas citizen of India candidates also went up to 90, persons of Indian origin increased to 15 and foreign students to four. The IITs have a total student intake capacity of 11,279.
IITs also had to relax the score for other backward classes (OBCs), and 1,345 were added to the OBC pool by relaxing the score of the last general category candidate by 10%. The situation got worse with the other categories. While 732 scheduled caste students and 243 scheduled tribe students qualified without any relaxation, more than thrice that number, in each category, made the cut after a 50% relaxation in scores.
“This will not affect the list of previously declared qualified candidates,” said the joint admission board.
2019
The toppers
June 15, 2019: The Times of India
Maha boy tops JEE-A, Delhi teen ranks 3rd
New Delhi:
Maharashtra boy Kartikey Chandresh Gupta scored 346 marks out of 372 to top the JEE (Advanced) 2019. Shabnam Sahay from Ahmedabad is the topper (10 on the combined list) among female candidates. She got 308 marks out of 372.
Himanshu Gaurav Singh from Allahabad and Delhi’s Archit Bubna were ranked all-India second and third, respectively. D Chandrasekhara S S Hethahavya from Hyderabad is the topper in the EWS category.
IIT-Roorkee announced the results on Friday. There are around 11,500 undergraduate seats in the 23 IITs. JEE (Advanced) is the second stage of the examination for admission to the four-year undergraduate courses at the IITs.
JEE results out, allotment of seats to begin from June 19
Some other institutions, like the Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, and the Indian Institute of Science, also use JEE (Advanced) scores as the basis for admission.
The exam is conducted by the seven zonal IITs on a rotational basis as per the guidelines of joint admission board, the IIT exam governing body. HRD minister Ramesh Pokhriyal congratulated students who had cleared the exam.
A total of 1,61,319 candidates appeared in Papers 1 and 2 and, of these, 38,705 qualified. Of those who qualified, 15,566 were general candidates (5,356 of them girls), 3,636 EWS candidates, 7,651 OBC candidates, 8,758 SC candidates and 3,094 ST candidates. The joint seat allocation authority will conduct seat allotment online from June 19 to July 17. Jo-SAA will also conduct counselling for NITs and IIITs on the basis of the JEE Main scores.
2020
Hemali Chhapia, September 12, 2020: The Times of India
Twenty-four candidates scored 100 percentile in the Joint Entrance Examination-Mains (JEE-mains). The National Testing Agency announced the results and final merit list from the performances of January and September cycle results.
Eight candidates from Telangana feature in the top 24, followed by five from Delhi, four from Rajasthan, three from Andhra Pradesh, two from Haryana, and one each from Gujarat and Maharashtra. Maharashtra’s girl topper Indrayani Tayade 99.97 is from Nagpur.
Swayam Shashank Chube, who stood fifth, utilised all his time to prepare for the entrance exam. After his first attempt in January, he upped his score by about 20 marks, from 276 to 296 to ace the JEE (main) with a perfect 100 percentile to become the state topper.
“The NCERT books were his Bible and Swayam made it a point to give enough time to all the three subjects, maths, physics and chemistry,” his mother Naina Chube said. The family temporarily moved from Dadar and rented an apartment in Marol as it was closer to Swayam’s classes so he would not lose time in travelling.
The JEE (mains) for admission to engineering colleges was conducted in January 202 and from September 1 to 6, amid stringent precautions and social distancing measures in view of Covid-19 pandemic. Based on the results of the JEE-Mains Paper 1 and Paper 2, the top 2.45 lakh candidates will be eligible to appear for the JEE-Advanced exam, which is a one-stop exam to get admission into the 23 premier Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs). JEE-Advanced is scheduled to take place on September 27.
2024
February
Manash.Gohain@timesgroup.com, February 14, 2024: The Times of India
From: Manash.Gohain@timesgroup.com, February 14, 2024: The Times of India
From: Manash.Gohain@timesgroup.com, February 14, 2024: The Times of India
Record 23 candidates get perfect score in JEE-Main
New Delhi : A record 23 candidates scored 100 percentile (NTA score 100) in first session of Paper 1 of JEE-Main for admission to BE and BTech courses. Telangana accounted for highest number of toppers with seven, followed by Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra and Rajasthan with three each.
Two boys from Delhi — Madhav Bansal and Ipsit Mittal — are on toppers’ list that includes 4 OBC candidates.
There are no candidates from Gen-EWS, SC and ST categories with 100 NTA score. Dwija Dharmeshkumar Patel from Gujarat was the topper among women with an NTA score of 99.99.
In 2023 Jan session, 20 candidates had scored 100 percentile, up from 14 in 2022.
This year, JEE (Main) recorded 95.8% attendance for Paper 1 (BE/ BTech), one of the highest since National Testing Agency (NTA) started conducting the test. It also registered a record 12.31 lakh aspirants, nearly 27% higher than previous year.
First session of JEE (Main) ended on Feb 1. Second session will be conducted in April and online registration for it is under way. For the first time, NTA announced dates for results in advance for all tests in 2024.
PwD topper gets 99.98 NTA score
Besides two Delhi boys, other candidates who scored 100 NTA score are: Aarav Bhatt, Rishi Shekher Shukla, Shaik Suraj (OBC), Mukunth Prathish S (OBC), Aryan Prakash, Ishaan Gupta, Aaditya Kumar, Rohan Sai Pabba, Parekh Meet Vikrambhai, Amogh Agrawal, Shivansh Nair, Thota Sai Karthik, Gajare Nilkrishna Nirmalkumar (OBC), Dakshesh Sanjay Mishra, Muthavarapu Anoop, Himanshu Thalor (OBC), Hundekar Vidith, Venkata Sai Teja Madineni, Annareddy Venkata Tanish Reddy, Sriyashas Mohan Kalluri and Tavva Dinesh Reddy.
Chunchikala Sreecharan is PwD topper with 99.98 NTA score. Sri Surya Varma Datla and Dorisala Srinivasa Reddy with a score of 99.99 are Gen-EWS toppers. Arad hana R (99.99) and Agannadham Mohith (99.99) are toppers from SC and ST categories, respectively.
NTA score is not the same as percentage of marks obtained. Percentiles or NTA scores are normalised across multi-session papers and based on relative performance of all those who appeared for the examination in one session. Candidates’ ranks are released taking in to consideration best of two NTA scores. Paper 1 is for admission to BTech/ BE programmes in IITs, NITs and centrally-funded technical institutions (CFTIs).
After both sessions (Jan and April) of Paper 1 examination, candidates are ranked based on best oftwo NTA scores. The examination was conducted in 13 languages (Assamese, Bengali, English, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu) across 544 centres in 291 cities (including 21 cities outside India). It was held in Abu Dhabi, Hong Kong and Oslo for the first time.
Based on results of JEEMains Paper 1 and Paper 2, around top 2.6 lakh candidates will be eligible to appear for JEE (Advanced), which is a one-stop exam to get admission into the 23 premierIITs.
May: state-wise
Manash Gohain, May 5, 2024: The Times of India
From: Manash Gohain, May 5, 2024: The Times of India
New Delhi : Eleven per cent of candidates appearing for Joint Entrance Examination-Advanced (JEE-Advanced) 2024 —the gateway to 23 Indian Institutes of technology (IITs) — will be from Uttar Pradesh.
An analysis of JEE (Main) qualification data also revealed that of the 2.5 lakh candidates who qualified to take the IIT entrance, more than 54% are from just six states and nearly 73% from 10 states.
Moreover, though over 75% of the registered candidates opted to take both (Jan and April) sessions of the JEE (Main), which is also an entrance test for centrally funded technical institutions and others, just around 28% of them managed to improve their results in the second sitting.
JEE (Advanced) is considered one of the toughest competitive exams in India, where aspirants must first qualify among the top 2.5 lakh in the JEE (Main) and then compete for 17,000 odd seats in IITs.
Uttar Pradesh (28,300+), Maharashtra (24,500+) and Telangana (24,100+) not only continue to dominate the results, these top three states also account for more than one-third (30.7%) of the total candidates eligible for JEE (Advanced).
There are 11 states which have more than 11,000 eligible candidates, which is close to 79% of the total candidates to have qualified.
There are five states with over 21,000 candidates, which include Andhra Pradesh and Rajasthan as well.
A total of 14.1 lakh candidates registered for JEE (Main) this year of which over 75% appeared in both the sessions of the exam, registering ahigh 96% attendance.
The last date for JEE (Advanced) registration is May 7 and the test will be delivered on May 26, 2024.
July 2024
Hemali Chhapia, Yogita Rao & A Ragu Raman, June 10, 2024: The Times of India
From: Hemali Chhapia, Yogita Rao & A Ragu Raman, June 10, 2024: The Times of India
CHENNAI/MUMBAI: Ved Lahoti from Indore shattered the JEE (Advanced) records by scoring the highest-ever marks of 355 out of 360 in the 2024 exam. Dwija Patel (332 marks) from Gujarat, who ranked 7 in the country, topped among the girls. Of the 1.8 lakh candidates who took JEE (A), 48,248 qualified. Of them, 7,964 are girls. This year, 455 more girls have qualified compared to the previous year.The JEE (A) results were declared on Sunday by IIT Madras, the organising college for this entrance exam that is the final gateway for the country’s premier tech colleges.
Students complained that the results website was slow and broke down twice.
Topper Ved Lahoti had initially scored 352, also secured by Chirag Falor in JEE (A) 2020 who opted to pursue his education at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, instead of joining an IIT.
Apart from bagging four spots in the top 10 ranks this year, the highest number of candidates - 11,180 - have qualified from IIT Madras zone, followed by IIT Delhi (10,255) and IIT Bombay (9480). The board tilts northwards as one looks at the top 100 ranks.
The IIT Bombay zone has 30 in the top 100 ranks, 29 from IIT Delhi, and 25 from IIT Madras. While nine candidates from IIT Roorkee zone secured ranks within the top 100, four from IIT Bhubaneswar, two from IIT Guwahati, and one from IIT Kanpur also secured ranks within the top 100.
Last year, IIT Madras monopolised the top 100 merit list with 40 candidates. IITs have a total of 17,740 seats for admission this year, up from 17,385 in 2023. This year, around 100 top rankers bagged scores above 300, a figure last recorded in 2017 when again IIT-Madras had organised the exam, observed a coaching class teacher. Sreedhar Babu, an IIT Bombay alumnus and mathematics teacher from a tutorial, said the mathematics paper this time was easier compared to the previous years. "Students who are strong at mathematics, which is supposed to be the heart of engineering and science, could not get the advantage over others. The paper favoured students who had good memory and practice over those with intellectual aptitude," he said.
The minimum qualifying aggregate score for the open category went up to 109 as compared to 86 last year - up 6.5% to touch 30.3%, which is the highest in the last four years. The cutoff for the OBC-NCL list and general EWS is 98, and 54 for SC, ST and persons with disabilities, said a release from the organising chairman, JEE (A ) 2024, IIT Madras. The qualifying marks have increased by 3% to 5.8% this year compared to last year. B Pavan Kumar from a tutorial said this was done due to fewer difficult questions. "The number of easy questions has gone up, while the moderately difficult questions have remained more or less the same."
