Around 4.7 lakh students on April11, 2010, appeared in the IIT-Joint Entrance Examination for admission to prestigious 15 IITs, ISM Dhanbad and IT-BHU. The number of candidates has increased to 4.72 lakh this year against four lakh candidates last year, mentioned Prof T S Natarajan, Organising Chairman, JEE 2010. The students qualifying the test will be eligible for admission into B.Tech programmes in these institutes offering over 10,000 seats.
About 90,000 candidates from National Capital Region have registered for the test. The results will be announced on May 26. For the current year the IITs have decided to conduct on-line counselling for general category students this year. This will give relief to students who earlier used to go to different counselling centres for securing a seat for themselves.
