Hyderabad, May 25: The much-awaited results of the Joint Entrance Examinations for admission into various Indian Institutes of Technology and other allied institutes would be announced on May 25.
Counselling for the candidates would commence from June 13 and the final allotment of seats and courses would be made by June 24, according to JEE officials.
Compared to last year, the competition for the seats has increased dramatically despite the introduction of two new IITs at Indore and Himachal Pradesh. “The students-seats ratio has increased from 44:1 to 49:1.
In the previous year, 3.11 lakh students competed for 6,992 seats, while this year more than 3.9 lakh students are eyeing to bag one of the 7,900 seats,’’ said an IITHyderabad official. He also informed that there is a rise of 25 per cent in the number of aspirants, while there is a rise of 13 per cent in the total number of seats.
According to the official website, the design aptitude test for the Architecture aspirants is scheduled on June 11 and 15. Results are available online on the website: http://www.jee.iitd.ac.in/ or any of the IITs’ official websites.
-Agencies