Jun 20 2014 : The Economic Times (Bangalore)
Get, Set, Go: The Race to the IITs Just got Tougher
SREERADHA D BASU
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MUMBAI
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No of candidates who qualified in JEE Advanced is 6,360 more than last year's
27,151 students have come out tops from among the 1.36 million who sat for entrance exams, only to find the race for an IIT seat is tougher than ever before even at this final stage.The number of candidates who qualified in the Joint Entrance Exam (JEE) Advanced results announced on Wednesday is 6,360 more than last year. And, with marginally fewer seats available this year, competition to get into an IIT is fiercer.
The available seats are split into four categories and the number of qualified candidates has increased in all categories.
“A greater number of students qualifying means the competition will be tougher since the cutoffs remain the same as last year,“ MK Panigrahi, professorin-charge, IIT Kharagpur JEE office told ET.
“Last year, someone with a score of 132 out of 360 would have made it to 10,000 rank, but this year one needs 150 to make it to the same level,“ Mohit Sardana, director and head of Mumbai territory at leading coaching chain FIITJEE, said. 9,784 seats are available this year. “Overall, the situation is the situation is much more com petitive,“ he add ed.
The race for an IIT seat involves cracking two of the most compet itive exams in the country. The first hurdle is the JEE (Main) conducttral Board of Sec ed by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), after which 1.5 lakh of the successful students make the cut for JEE (Advanced), provided the student figures among the top 20 percentile of his/her concerned XII board.
The competition this year has been fiercer than the previous at every stage.
The available seats are split into four categories and the number of qualified candidates has increased in all categories.
“A greater number of students qualifying means the competition will be tougher since the cutoffs remain the same as last year,“ MK Panigrahi, professorin-charge, IIT Kharagpur JEE office told ET.
“Last year, someone with a score of 132 out of 360 would have made it to 10,000 rank, but this year one needs 150 to make it to the same level,“ Mohit Sardana, director and head of Mumbai territory at leading coaching chain FIITJEE, said. 9,784 seats are available this year. “Overall, the situation is the situation is much more com petitive,“ he add ed.
The race for an IIT seat involves cracking two of the most compet itive exams in the country. The first hurdle is the JEE (Main) conducttral Board of Sec ed by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), after which 1.5 lakh of the successful students make the cut for JEE (Advanced), provided the student figures among the top 20 percentile of his/her concerned XII board.
The competition this year has been fiercer than the previous at every stage.
