New Delhi: The results of the Indian Institute of Technology - Joint Entrance Examination (IIT-JEE) 2007 for admission to the undergraduate courses in engineering are out.
Achin Bansal (Reg. No. 2088031) from IIT Delhi Zone has topped this year’s All India list of successful candidates.
Bansal is from Kot Kapura, a small town in Punjab, and is the son of a medical practioner.
PTI qouted him as saying that he intended to do take admission in the computer science course from IIT Mumbai.
Ankita Sharma is the daughter of a Nuclear Power Corporation of India official and said that she had not yet decided about the branch in which she wanted to study.
The chairman of IIT-JEE 2007 Prof Pandalai and the deputy director of IIT Mumbai Prof J M Vasi said in Mumbai that there would not be any 27 per cent OBC reservation quota this year as per the directives of the Supreme Court.
However, they said that around 17 to 18 per cent of seats were reserved for students from this category.
IITs have also put out an exteneded merit list and students on this list may also be counselled by the Indian Institute of Space Science, Thiruvananthapuram Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research at Pune, Kolkata and Mohali.
The Directorate General of Shipping also offers admission based on JEE results, Pandalai said.
Asked about the examination papers for next year, he said, "Since we changed the exam paper pattern this year and it was more simplified, we have lot of students from the state boards also including the topper."
"We have to study the entire process before talking about next year's papers. By making papers easier, a chance is given to students who do not go to coaching classes," he said.
"We also made provisions for girls and provided them with admission forms at half the price," he said adding that compared to last year 193 more girls cleared the test this year.
Out of the 2,43,029 candidates who wrote the examination, 7,209 candidates are eligible to seek admission to 5,537 seats in IITs.
This year 54,025 girls wrote the JEE and 587 of them have qualified with Ankita Sharma (Reg. No. 1042066) from IIT Mumbai zone with an All India Rank of 55 topping the list of girl candidates.
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The number of qualified candidates out of those who appeared in different IIT zones are: Mumbai – 2,235 out of 45,246, Delhi - 1,398 out of 45,910, Guwahati – 137 out of 15,675, Kanpur – 513 out of 38,849, Kharagpur – 733 out of 32,693, Madras – 1688 out of 38,192 and Roorkee - 496 out of 26,464.
Counselling for admissions will begin on June 18 and conclude on June 22 for the declared All India Rank (AIR) holders. Courses allocated to the successful candidates will be declared on June 29.
The IITs admit SC/ST students with relaxed criteria. This year 20,892 SC candidates wrote the JEE 2007 out of whom 594 have qualified
Similarly 5,909 ST candidates took the JEE and 109 of them have qualified. Anasuya Mandal, ranked 449 in the common merit list and Varunie Shashni, ranked 983 in the common merit list were the highest ranked SC and ST candidates respectively.
Candidates with certified physical disabilities (PD) are granted admission with relaxed norms. A total of 15 candidates have qualified under these norms.
The Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University) and the Indian School of Mines (Dhanbad) also admit students on the basis of the IIT-JEE.
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