Mumbai zone sends most students to prestigious IITs - Times of India

Two girls secured single-digit ranks in JEE 2013, something that is bound go down in history of the male-dominated exam. Yet, IITs will continue to be an unequal world: students from the IIT-Bombay zone (home to Kota) dominate the number of those who qualified to join the schools. But the southern zone bagged four of the top 10 ranks-all from Andhra Pradesh. The cut-off to qualify in the exam dipped as compared to last year and stood at 126 of 360. To be called for IIT counselling, students should have scored at least 156. Last year, eight students from Andhra Pradesh featured among the top 20 slots. In 2013, the success rate of students from the state was no different and the IIT-Madras zone cornered the highest number of top 100 ranks-36. In JEE (Advanced), Pallerla Sai Sandeep Reddy (17 ) from Butchalapalem stood first with his score of 332/360. The son of a Telugu government schoolteacher, Sai Sandeep did not let his economic standing come in the way of access to good training. He received free education after acing a coaching class' entrance exam after class X. Sai Sandeep was followed by Addanki Ravichandra (AIR 2) and Viswa Viranchi from Andhra Pradesh, who was AIR 7. Anand Bhoraska from Indore stood third in all-India ranking and Kartikeya Gupta from Delhi came next. Uttkarsha Kumar from Jharkhand came fifth. At rank six came Aditi Laddha from Ratlam. And Sibbala Leena Madhuri from Tirupati came at eighth. While Laddha and Madhuri made girls proud, fewer girls qualified this year-2,392 of the total 21,110. In Mumbai, 551 girls qualified, more than last year's 491. "There was a lot of pressure on us to charge girl students for application forms as candidates were fewer than last year. But the idea was to encourage more girls to take the exam," said JEE (Advanced) vice chairman Rajkumar Pant from IIT-B. In the two-stage exam, competition was compounded by the fact that JEE 2013 was tougher than its predecessor. "The cut-off has dropped to 126. Last time, the cut-off was 172. The difficulty level has indeed gone up. Maharashtra has performed poorly and we need to look at the new exam system carefully to do well next year," said Praveen Tyagi, head of IITians Pace. In the top 100 ranks, merely seven featured from Maharashtra; there were eight of them last year. An analysis of the top 100 students showed that 25 hailed from the western zone (31 last year) and 36 were from the IIT-Madras zone. The IIT-Madras zone also had the most candidates in the top 500 ranks-146. Of all the seven zones (drawn on the basis of old IITs), the western region saw the largest p ool of students qualify to join IITs-3,693. However, students wanting to join the IITs should also rank among the top 20 percentile in their class XII; certificates for the same need to be submitted with other documents. For states with no cut-off percentile, CBSE's cut-off for the same will apply. A total of about 1.16 lakh candidates appeared for JEE (Advanced). Of those, 14,336 were short-listed for the counselling process for admission to the IITs. Of the 4,188 OBC candidates, 745 made it to the common merit list. Of the 2,990 SC and 856 ST students who qualified, 101 and 24, respectively, made it without score relaxation. In all, the 15 IITs, ITBHU and ISM, Dhanbad have 9,885 seats, apportioned as: 4,884 for the general category, 2,669 for OBCs, 1,483 for SCs and 741 for STs. via Top Stories - Google News http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNEjPRtGnj9GNbMcySN5P7awMGhjTg&url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/education/news/Mumbai-zone-sends-most-students-to-prestigious-IITs/articleshow/20708595.cms

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