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A lower cut-off set for JEE advanced exam this year

A decision in this regard was taken in a meeting of the JEE (Advanced) board Friday night, five days before the announcement of the result. JEE (Advanced) result is slated to be declared on June 18. The JEE Advanced exam was conducted on May 24, 2015.

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After learning that fewer students could cross the bar this year, the JEE (Advanced) board has lowered the qualifying marks criteria for admission in the IITs.

A decision in this regard was taken in a meeting of the JEE (Advanced) board Friday night, five days before the announcement of the result. JEE (Advanced) result is slated to be declared on June 18. The JEE Advanced exam was conducted on May 24, 2015.

To qualify for JEE advanced, a general category student will now have to secure 7% marks in each of the three subjects with aggregate of 24.5%. The previous cut-off was 10% marks in each subjects and 35% in aggregate, a bar which could not be cleared by an adequate number of candidates, prompting the authorities to lower it.

Over 10,000 seats are available for admissions this year for various undergraduate courses in 16 IITs and a few other national institutes. Last year, 27,000 candidates had been declared qualified from among 1.5 lakh candidates selected through the JEE (main).

"As the result compilation is in the final stages now, it emerged that the number of qualifiers could be less than the last year's figure, so we decided to reduce the qualifying criteria," said the chairman of the JEE (advance) without divulging any more details about the deficit.

This is for the first time in three years since JEE (main) and advanced have been introduced in India that admission criteria has been tweaked in the middle of the process. Though the authorities say, "The bar was revised in the past as well though people may not be knowing about it as JEE (advanced) format was not in place."

As per the revised rule, the minimum aggregate qualifying marks for the general category are now 124 out of 504. A candidate has to score minimum 12 marks in Maths, Physics and Chemistry separately, after adding the paper 1 and 2 marks.

The IITs usually select twice the number of candidates as compared to the available seats so that no seat remains vacant. The reason is that many students who get admission in unpopular courses and in newer IITs often leave the seat and choose NITs and other ace institutes.

Paper-1 of JEE (Main), which was conducted on April 10 and 11, is taken as the eligibility test for writing the JEE (Advanced). The top 1.5 lakh students who clear the JEE Main examination appear for the JEE Advanced 2015 exam

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