Number of JEE Advanced 2018 Qualifiers Dips; IITs to Conduct Emergency Meeting
- The number of candidates who have qualified JEE Advanced 2018 is at a seven-year low with a sharp dip seen in the statistics.
- IIT officials are worried that this will inflate the number of vacant seats in these premier institutes.
JEE Advanced 2018 results, which were out on June 10, 2018, recorded the lowest pass percentage in the last seven years. The organising committee of JEE Advanced 2018 exam, i.e., IIT Kanpur pointed that the error-free JEE Advanced 2018 question paper regulated the need for awarding grace marks this year.
A total number of 18,138 candidates have qualified JEE Advanced 2018 against 1.55 lakh candidates who appeared for the exam. IIT Officials have recorded a drop in the number of students who qualified the exam. As a result, they are worried that a larger number of seats may remain vacant after JoSAA Counselling 2018. The officials have anticipated that the vacant seats at IITs may be larger in 2018 as it has been rising since the past three years. An emergency meeting will be conducted to discuss the same.
There are a total of 11,279 seats in all the IITs and the last rank at which the counselling was closed was somewhere below 14,000. Last year, a total of 50,455 candidates had cleared JEE Advanced. Hence, this year, there has been a dip in the number of students who made it to the JEE Advanced 2018 all-India rank list.
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Despite the sharp fall in the number of qualified candidates,Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are confident of filling up 11,279 seats this year. Last year, the closing rank was close to 14,000.
This year, candidates cleared JEE Advanced 2018 without any dilution on the merit front. There arose no necessity to lower the JEE Advanced cut-off mark any further. Almost, all the students who cleared JEE Advanced 2018 have scored above the pre-decided cut-off marks.
Category-Wise Number of JEE Advanced 2018 Qualifiers: -
Name of the Category | Total No. of Qualified Candidates |
ST | 1,495 |
SC | 4,709 |
OBC | 3,140 |
General | 8,794 |
Total | 18,138 |
Zone-Wise Number of JEE Advanced 2018 Qualifiers: -
Name of the Zone | Total No. Of Qualified Candidates |
5,072 | |
3,595 | |
2,936 |
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Even though IITs and Indian government took numerous efforts to attract international students, only three have managed to clear JEE Advanced 2018. For the first time, two physically disabled candidates have featured in the list of top 10 JEE Advanced rankers.