JEE results out; IIT Bombay zone leads

The IIT-Bombay zone once again boasts of the maximum number of candidates, 3,145, who have cracked the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) of the IITs, the results of which were declared on Wednesday. It is followed by the IIT-Madras (2,619) and IIT-Delhi (2,264) zones.

Of 455,571 candidates who took the JEE this year, 12,676 cleared it. For the preparatory course, 262 scheduled tribe (ST) candidates and 166 physical disability (PD) candidates have qualified. The number of candidates who appeared in the JEE in 2010 is over 18% more than 2009.

The all-India success rate has increased marginally from 2.6% in 2009 to 2.78%. Roughly 9,500 seats are available across all the IITs, IT-BHU (Varanasi) and ISMU-Dhanbad. Of these, 2,567 seats are reserved for other backward classes (OBCs), 1,426 for the scheduled castes (SC) and 713 for the STs.   

Approximately 4,800 seats are available for the general category. Three per cent seats in each category are reserved for PD candidates.

Compared to 2009, the number of candidates qualifying from the Bombay zone has dipped, but has increased for the other zones (Delhi, Guwahati, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Madras and Roorkee).

However, the maximum number of candidates who appeared for JEE 2010 was from the Bombay zone: 76,771. The success rate for the Bombay zone in 2010 is 4.09%, down from 4.2% in 2009. Last year, 3,379 candidates qualified from the Bombay zone.

Again, while 46 candidates from the Bombay zone figured in the top 100 on the merit list last year, this year the number has come down to 22. The Madras zone has the maximum - 32 — in the top 100, while Guwahati has none.

In the top 500, 138 are from the Bombay zone and 140 from the Madras zone.

“Such numbers fluctuate. It depends on how serious the students are from a particular zone. Another reason could be that Hyderabad (part of the madras zone) is now slowly becoming a good coaching hub,” said a former JEE chairman.

“However, the Bombay zone takes over when you look at the top 1,000, in which 278 are from this zone, while 252 are from the Madras zone,” said IIT-Bombay JEE chairman Anil Kumar.

The number of students qualifying from the Bombay zone without any relaxation is 2,331, with 490 qualifying from Mumbai alone.