Punjab Boys Tops in Indian Institute of Technology Joint Entrance Examination (IIT JEE)

Punjab Boys Tops in Indian Institute of Technology Joint Entrance Examination (IIT JEE)

Achin Bansal from Punjab topped this year’s All-India Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) conducted by Indian Institute of Technology while Ankita Sharma from Mumbai topped among girls.

Among the number of qualified candidates, Mumbai zone topped the list with 2,235 students while Delhi zone was second in number with 1,398 candidates, HS Pandalai, chairman of IIT-JEE-2007 and JM Vasi, deputy director, IIT Mumbai said on Wednesday.

The total number of students who appeared for the JEE this year was 243,029, of which 7,209 are eligible to seek admission to 5,537 seats in IITs at Mumbai, Delhi, Guwahati, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Chennai and Roorkee, IT- BHU Varanasi and ISMU, Dhanbad, they said. Achin Bansal hails from Kot Kapura, a small town in Punjab, and is the son of a medical practioner. Bansal said he intended to do a computer science course from IIT Mumbai.

This year, 54,025 girls wrote the JEE and 587 qualified with Ankita Sharma from Anushakti Nagar, Mumbai, with an all India rank of 55, topping the list. Sharma, the daughter of a Nuclear Power Corporation of India official, said that she had not yet decided about the branch she wanted to study. Asked about the 27% OBC reservation quota, Pandalai said that as per apex court directives, there will not be separate quota for OBC this year, although around 17-18% of seats were reserved for students from this category. IITs admit SC/ST students with relaxed criteria and this year 20,892 scheduled caste candidates appeared for the JEE, of which 594 qualified. Similarly, of the 5,909 scheduled tribe candidates who wrote the exam, 109 candidates qualified.

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The total number of students who appeared for the JEE this year was 243,029 of which 7,209 are eligible for admission to 5,537 seats in IITs at Mumbai, Delhi, Guwahati, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Chennai & Roorkee.

Anasuya Mandal, who topped among SC candidates, was ranked 449 in the common merit list while Varunie Shashni who topped among SC category, ranled 983 in the common merit list, the chairman of IIT-JEE said. Candidates with certified physical disabilities (PD) are also granted admission with relaxed norms and 15 candidates qualified under these norms. For students with reading disability, specially enlarged question papers were provided this year, they said. The counselling of all the qualified students will take place between June 18 and 22.

Punjab Boys Tops in Indian Institute of Technology Joint Entrance Examination (IIT JEE)

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