120 from Gujarat make it to the IITs

Around 120 students from the state are estimated to have made it to the IITs as per the results of the IIT-JEE examination which was declared on Wednesday. As many students have been travelling and coaching classes could not confirm the number of students who have made it to the IITs, an exact figure could not be derived on the day of the result.

At the national level a total of 13,104 candidates today cleared the prestigious entrance to the IITs this year. Anumula Jithendar Reddy from Madras zone has topped the test at the national level.
These students will be eligible for admission to the 15 IITs, ISM Dhanbad and IT-BHU. There are 9,509 seats in these institutions. Over 4.5 lakh candidates had appeared in JEE-2010 which was conducted by seven of the IITs on April 11.

This year the number of candidates who had taken the examination was up by 18.3 per cent as compared to last year. While the test was conducted in seven zones, IIT Bombay zone produced the maximum number of successful candidates with 3,145 of them figuring in the merit list followed by IIT Madras (2619), IIT Delhi (2264), IIT Kharagpur (1481), IIT Kanpur (1341), IIT Roorkee (1305) and IIT Guwahati (521).

While 1.13 lakh girls appeared in the test, 1476 managed to qualify. Aakanksha Tushar Sarda emerged as the topper among girls with an all India rank of 18. About 554 candidates in Hindi medium have qualified for the entrance test which is a three fold rise from last year.

This year there will be no Scheduled Caste preparatory list as the number of successful SC candidates is more than the available seats for them. This year, 2357 OBC candidates cleared the test, while 1773 SCs, 517 STs and 174 physically challenged got through the same.

This time the IITs are conducting counselling online. The counselling website will be open from Thursday till June 12.
Candidates are expected to fill their choice of courses in all the participating institutes online from May 30. While the candidates belonging to the General category do not need to report in person to any of the institutes for counselling, other candidates belonging to OBC, SC, ST and Physically Disabled categories will have to report in person.

The web-release of the first seat allotment will be made on June 28 while the second one will be released on July 14.