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Latest News |
| 16th
January 2010 / Times of India / Bangalore Edition |
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IIT seat race gets tougher
4.5 Lakh Apply For 7,417 Seats
Singapore Is A Possible Venue
Mumbai: The race to get a seat into the elite IITs just
got tougher this year. According to data from the Indian
Institutes of Technology, close to 4.5 lakh candidates
have applied to appear for this year’s joint entrance
exam, up from the 3.85 lakh who took the test last year.
According to data from IIT Madras, the nodal IIT that
will coordinate JEE-2010, these candidates will take the
entrance exam across seven zones in the country on April
11. They will vie for 7,417 seats spread across fifteen
IITs. The technical institute will conduct the entrance
exam at the Dubai centre; and, if the Union HRD ministry
gives a nod, the exam will also travel to Singapore for
the first time.
Going by present data, the average number of students
vying for a seat stands at 61. The level of competition
to get into the IITs is far more than what’s seen
in prestigious universities like Harvard and the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MIT), where the average number
of students competing for a seat is only eight.
JEE chairman at IIT-Bombay Anil Kumar said, “There
has been an overall increase in applicants; close to 80,000
candidates will be taking the test from the Bombay zone.’’
This academic year will see admission open to the all
the IITs announced by the government for its XIth Plan
period. 2010 will also see all the tech colleges implement
the entire 27 per cent OBC reservation.
(Eight new IITs in Hyderabad, Patna, Rajasthan, Gandhinagar,
Mandi, Bhubaneshwar, Indore and Ropar, will each take
in 60 students in the general category, 33 students from
the OBC category, 18 from the Schedule Caste and nine
from the Scheduled Tribes category)
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