Over 4.82 lakh students to take IIT entrance test on April 10

Over 4.82 lakh students will appear for the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) joint entrance examination (JEE) on April 10, 2011 seeking seats in the 15 prestigious engineering colleges across the country.

The number of candidates appearing for the test this year has gone up to 4,82,014 against 4.72 lakh candidates who appeared last year, official sources said.

IIT Bombay zone has received the highest number of applications with 84,845 students registering for the test, while IIT Guwahati zone is at the bottom with 57,573 applicants, according to a statement issued by the IIT-Kanpur.

The JEE-2011 will be held across the country under the supervision of IIT-Kanpur, the authorities said.

About 81,970 candidates from IIT Kanpur zone have registered for the test, they said.

The students qualifying the test will be eligible for admission into B.Tech programmes in 15 IITs, Indian School of Mines University (ISM) Dhanbad and Institute of Technology Banaras Hindu University.