Over 80,000 from IIT Bombay zone to take entrance exam

Over 80,000 from IIT Bombay zone to take entrance exam

Mumbai: The Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) will see more students aspiring to get into the prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) this year. Around 4.72 lakh aspirants across the country will appear for the exam on April 11 as compared to last year’s 3,84,977 candidates.

The highest number of candidates this year are from the IIT Bombay zone (80,211), followed by IIT Delhi (73,862), IIT Kanpur (73,194), IIT Madras (68,500), IIT Roorkee (61,233), IIT Kharagpur (60,834) and IIT Guwahati (54,269). Around 1.08 lakh Other Backward Classes (OBCs, non-creamy layer) have registered for the exam, while 44,000 Scheduled Caste (SC) and 16,936 Scheduled Tribe (ST) candidates will attempt JEE.

The total number of seats available across all IITs, IT-BHU and ISM-Dhanbad is 10,000. Of the 15 IITs, the seven older ones are implementing the final phase of the 27% OBC reservation this year. There will be two papers of three-hour duration each.Both papers will comprise three separate sections on Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics.

The IITs are introducing an online counselling process this year. It is open to all candidates who qualify JEE. Instead of coming physically to an IIT, general category will have to log in and fill in their choice of course and IITs. Even OBC/SC/ST/PD candidates can fill their choices online, but they will have to come to the IITs with necessary certificates for verification. The courses and their scope will be put on the website.

Furthermore, in the second round of admissions this year, students will be allowed to move across all 15 institutes, unlike in 2009. The IITs had started a second round of admissions in 2009 to fill vacant seats after round one. Students could accordingly upgrade their choice if a seat was still vacant, but it was limited to the IIT where the student had gained admission to. This year, they can get the higher choice in other IITs too, subject to vacancy.

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