Domination of students
from Andhra Pradesh and Telangana state in the Indian Institutes
Technology is well known. But this position has been further cemented
this year with Andhra Pradesh and Telangana having the highest number of
students who qualified in the IIT JEE (Advanced). At least 20 per cent
of all students getting admissions to various IITs in the country were
also from the two states.
Hyderabad
had the second highest number of students who qualified in the IIT JEE
(Advanced), thereby becoming eligible for counseling.
A
recent report by IIT Kharagpur found that the majority of students who
qualified in the exam and obtained seats studied in Central Board of
Secondary Education (CBSE) schools. Andhra Pradesh Board of Intermediate
Education (BIE) came in next, becoming the board sending the second
highest number of students to IITs.
Out
of the 1.26 lakh students who passed the IIT JEE (Mains), 18,946
students were from Andhra Pradesh and Telangana State. Of them, nearly
4,975 students qualified in the advanced exam earning eligibility to
participate in the counselling procedure. Next in the list is Rajasthan,
which is another IIT JEE coaching hub, sending about 4,292 students for
counselling.
Almost half of the aspirants from AP and TS, who qualified in the IIT JEE (Advanced), were from Hyderabad.
There
are about 9,784 seats across 16 IITs and other allied institutions.
More than half the students, about 5,402, who earned seats in IITs,
belonged to the CBSE. Second in line were students from the Board of
Intermediate Education (BIE) catering to Andhra Pradesh and Telangana
state.
Source: Deccan-Chronicle
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