Achin Bansal from Punjab tops IIT – JEE
Achin Bansal from Punjab has topped the All-India Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) conducted by the Indian Institute of Technology, the results of which were announced on Wednesday.
Ankita Sharma – whose all-India rank is 55 – has topped the list of girls. Achin and Ankita are from the IIT Delhi and IIT Mumbai Zones.
Of around 2, 43,000 students who appeared for the IIT-JEE this year, 7200 candidates have been found eligible, say IIT Delhi Registrar, Col. (retd). Rajendra Singh.
There are 5,537 seats in the IITs in Delhi, Mumbai, Guwahati, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Chennai, Roorkee along with the Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi and the Indian School of Mines University, Dhanbad.
With 2,235 students, the IIT Mumbai Zone has topped the list of qualifying candidates. From the IIT Chennai Zone 1, 688 candidates are eligible.
As many as 1, 398 candidates have qualified from the Delhi Zone, and the number of students from the IIT Kharagpur Zone in 733. From the IIT Kanpur Zone, 513 students have cleared the exam, while 496 candidates have qualified from the IIT Roorkee Zone.
The number of those found eligible from IIT Guwahati Zone is 137. This year, 587 of the 54,025 girls who appeared for the IIT-JEE qualified.
Counseling will be held between June 18 and 22.
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For students appearing in the Indian Institutes of Technology – Joint Entrance Examination (IIT-JEE 2007), it was a tough paper, as expected.
About 2.52 lakh students took IIT-JEE 2007 across the country on Sunday. This entrance test was for 4,600 seats in the seven IITs.
Preetesh Kumar Pradhan, a 12th standard student of Kendriya Vidyalaya, NAL, who spoke to The Hindu during the lunch break, said the first paper was very tough. “I did not go to any coaching centre. I just prepared for the examination with the CBSE syllabus. I knew the entrance test would be tough, and I was prepared”, he said.
Very tough:
Khushboo Kindo (18) took a one-year break and appeared for the entrance test on Sunday.
“I completed my second year pre-university last year from Jyohti Nivas College. I have been preparing for the entrance test for the past year. This is my only chance. I hope I qualify”, she said.
Karuna Bennur, a parent, said her son Sidhant (18) complained that the first paper was very tough. “In fact, I overheard students saying that during the lunch break. Many students were saying they did not want to attempt the second paper,” she said. Sidhant, a student of Our Own English School in Dubai, has undergone training for almost two years at Career Launcher. He and his mother had come down to the city for the test.
Shalini. J, a 12th standard student, said her board examinations got over only on March 22.
“We did not get enough time to prepare for the entrance test. The Mathematics questions were very tough. I have a feeling that the second paper is going to be tougher”.
Number has come down:
Mahaveer Kumar Jain from the IIT-Madras, who was one of the officials in-charge of the entrance test, said at the MES College alone some 350 students were taking the test.
“If they do qualify, I will be teaching them Physics in the first year”
He said the number of students appearing for the test had come down.
“The decrease can be attributed to the fact that we have now restricted the number of attempts to two.”
Additional quota:
Last year, about three lakh students competed for the 4,078 seats in the seven IITs. To accommodate the additional 27 per cent quota for candidates belonging to Other Backward Classes, the IITs had increased their seats.
But with the Supreme Court’s stay on the OBC quota, the Union Human Resource Development Ministry is still undecided on whether to increase the seats or not.
But for students, the first concern will be their entrance test results, expected by the end of May.
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