13% more applications including absolute number of 139,000 applications for 2000 total seats were received this year by Birla Institute of Technology and Science Aptitude Test (BITSAT) 2010, which is the online entrance test for admission to BITS, Pilani and its other campuses in Goa and Hyderabad, as comapre to last year.
Dean, Admissions, of the Institute, Prof. S. Gurunarayanan also added that the percentage of girls who applied is 32% which is akin to the previous year's figure. BITSAT test begins on May 10, as per the original announcement. The test will be conducted over a period of four weeks in different centers and the period depends on the number of candidates registered in a particular center.
