Poor Show By Northeast Students in JEE

Guwahati, May 26 : The results of the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE-2011) for admissions to various courses in the 15 IITs, IT-BHU and ISM Dhanbad which were declared on May 25 has revealed the poor performance of students from this region.

Under Guwahati Zone, 76 candidates qualified out of the 6,928 who had registered in Assam. From the rest of the North East 1,668 had registered of which only two candidates qualified. By contrast 499 candidates from Bihar qualified in the highly competitive test.

A total of 4,68,240 candidates appeared in JEE-2011 which was conducted by seven of the IITs on April 10. Among those, 13,602 candidates were declared qualified to seek admission for 9,618 seats in the 15 IITs at Bhubaneswar, Bombay, Delhi, Gandhinagar, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Indore, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Madras, Mandi, Patna, Rajasthan, Ropar, Roorkee and IT-BHU Varanasi and ISM Dhanbad.

Immadi Prudhvi Tej, who appeared in JEE from IIT Madras zone, topped this year's all India list of successful candidates.

This year 1,08,647 girls appeared for JEE-2011 out of which 1,491 qualified.

According to an official statement from IIT Guwahati, The counselling website will be open to the candidates from May 25. This year candidates are expected to fill their choice of courses and pay the registration fee on-line and are not required to report in person at the institutes for counselling.

However, candidates belonging to Physically Disabled (PD) sub-category will have to report in person to the counselling institutes for a check up before a Medical Board, which is already displayed in the JEE website. For the convenience of such candidates, for the first time, Medical Boards have been constituted at IIT Kanpur and at IIT Kharagpur along with IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi, IIT Guwahati and IIT Madras.

The web release of the first seat allotment will be made on June 21. The second seat allotment will be released on July 6.

It may be mentioned that the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, the Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (IISERs), Rajeev Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology (RGIPT) and Indian Maritime University (formerly DG Shipping) will admit candidates based on JEE-2011 merit and extended merit lists.