5.6 lakh aspirants appear for IIT-JEE test today

Over 5.6 lakh aspirants across the country will appear for Indian Institute of Technology Joint Entrance Exam (IITJEE)-2012 on Sunday.

This year, the largest number of applications is from Kanpur, followed by Andhra Pradesh.

Students from 210 cities will take the exam for around 9,600 seats in the IITs, 1,000 in Institute of Technology-Banaras Hindu University and approximately 860 in Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad.

The examination will take place at seven centres – Guntur, Hyderabad, Nellore, Tirupati, Vijayawada, Visakhapatnam and Warangal. The first part of the test is scheduled to take place from 9 am to 12 pm and the second from 2 pm to 5 pm.

The results are scheduled to be declared on May 18.

–Agencies