More than 30 per cent of the candidates who qualified in IIT-JEE 2008 hail from Andhra Pradesh. Two students from the state also figured among the top-10 rank-holders in open category at all-India level. Ch. Dinesh of Sri Chaitanya College in Vijayawada secured 7th rank at national-level, while M. Praneet of Ramaiah IIT Coaching Centre in Hyderabad got the 8th rank. Dinesh also stood at first place in the Chennai region.
Tarun from Ramaiah secured 2nd rank at national-level in physically handicapped quota.The Narayana Group got two of the top five ranks at national-level. Abhinav Garg and Archit Gupta of the Delhi branch of Narayana Group got 3rd and 4th ranks respectively in the open category.
The results of IIT-JEE 2008 conducted by IIT-Roorkee were released on Friday. Out of 3,11,258 candidates who appeared for the exam, 8,652 qualified to seek admission for 6,872 seats in IITs at Mumbai, Delhi, Guwahati, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Chennai and Roorkee and the proposed IT-BHU, IIT Varanasi and ISMU, Dhanbad. Of 8,652 candidates who qualified, nearly 2,100 are from AP.
IIT-JEE see 28% rise in applicants:
The number of candidates who appeared for this IIT-JEE 2008 exam has increased by nearly 28 per cent. Of the total number of candidates who qualified for the exam 1,078 candidates are from Narayana Group, 733 from Sri Chaitanya and 118 from Ramaiah. Students of Sri Chaitanya also secured 13th, 15th, 17th, 26th, 27th, 32nd, 35th and 39th ranks, while students of Ramaiah coaching centre secured 36th, 37th, 38th, 49th, 70th and 74th ranks.
"We have secured 67 ranks below 100," said Mr B.S.Rao, chairman of Sri Chaitanya Group. "Our training has worked wonders and the special programme ‘Icon’ to shape tomorrow’s IITians has proved to be successful." Students of Narayana also secured 25th, 26th, 43rd, 49th, 50th, 59th, 60th and 17 ranks below 102. "We have started seven-year IIT Olympiad programme at school level from class VI," said Mr Narayana, chairman of the group. "It is giving the desired results as the number of students who get qualified in IITJEE increased from 623 last year to 1,078 this year,"
Mr Ramaiah, meanwhile, said that more candidates from rural areas and those from SC, ST categories appeared for the exam and had qualified. "Three students each of these categories from our centre were successful," he said. In all, 78,159 girls wrote the exam and 840 of them qualified. Ms N. Vasuki from IIT Madras zone with all-India rank of 14 topped the list of girl candidates
(Source : DC)
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