Why does the Centre want a toned down JEE and will IITs give in?In JEE-Advanced 2018, 18,138 candidates were declared eligible for admission to 11,279 IIT seats.
18 Jun, 2018, 03.36 PM IST
Modi govt wants IITs to tone down their entrance exam for engineersThe ministry is of the view that the difficulty level of JEEAdvanced may be too high. The issue will be taken up as a key agenda item at th...
16 Jun, 2018, 08.34 AM IST
Lower cutoff now allows 32,000 to qualify for IITsWith the cutoff falling to 90 from 126, there are now 31,988 qualified candidates, up from 18,138. The extended merit list includes 3,445 p...
15 Jun, 2018, 11.01 AM IST
31988 students now qualify in JEE Advanced 2018 after extended merit list is issuedThat's an addition of 13850 students to the original list of 18138 that had cleared the exam, the results of which were released on June 10.
14 Jun, 2018, 08.21 PM IST
On HRD ministry's direction, IIT board releases extended merit list; 31,980 candidates qualify in allThe HRD Ministry issued directions to the Indian Institute of Technology (IITs) to release a supplementary merit list for admission this ye...
14 Jun, 2018, 05.10 PM IST
Supreme Court seeks Centre's reply on plea to quash IIT JEE rank listA vacation bench of Justices A M Sapre and S K Kaul, which also issued notice to the MHRD and IIT Madras, did not stay the conselling which...
30 Jun, 2017, 06.25 PM IST
Results of IIT-JEE announced, only 5 girls make it to top 100Girls formed only 11 per cent of the total qualifying students, JEE in-charge and IIT Kharagpur professor M K Panigrahi told PTI.
19 Jun, 2014, 01.53 PM IST
Supreme Court refuses to pass interim order on JEE controversyThe Supreme Court today refused to pass interim order on a plea challenging the policy for deciding the merit list of students for admissio...
11 Jul, 2013, 06.25 PM IST
SC refuses to pass interim order on JEE controversyA bench of justices , however, agreed to hear the plea of parents of engineering aspirants, who challenged the new "normalisation" policy.
11 Jul, 2013, 05.14 PM IST
Two girls make history, figure in top-10 rank of IIT entrance examination"This is the first time in the IIT history that we have women in Top-10 of the merit list," says Prof H C Gupta, organising chairman, JEE, ...
23 Jun, 2013, 02.20 AM IST
JEE-Advanced has two women, one from Ratlam and another from Tirupati, amongst the top ten candidatesFor the first time in the IIT’s history, two women have cracked the top-10 barrier. The results, which will be announced after 5 pm today, ...
21 Jun, 2013, 05.19 PM IST
- 40% weightage to class XII marks in JEE; new rule to impact 12 lakh students from 2013
For engineering aspirants, from now on how well one performs in all the five subjects in class XII boards will also matter.
05 Oct, 2012, 11.20 AM IST
- Two-step common entrance examination for IIT admissions from 2013
Kapil Sibal was able to forge this consensus only after conceding to the demand by the IITs that they would have a different formulation fo...
29 May, 2012, 05.49 AM IST
- Number of girls cracking IIT-JEE doubles to 2,800 in one year
Each year boys max out seats at the Indian Institutes of Technology. But the count of girls who secured JEE ranks has doubled to 2,886 sinc...
19 May, 2012, 06.18 AM IST
- Bombay zone sends most students to IITs
The maximum number of students making it to the IITs this year is from the Bombay zone, with the Maximum City also contributing two among t...
26 May, 2009, 01.50 AM IST
- Some SC/STs too made it on merit
Data collected by the IITs has something for both anti- and pro-reservation camps to think about.
05 Aug, 2007, 03.49 AM IST
- Punjab boy tops IIT JEE
Achin Bansal from Punjab topped this year's All India Joint Entrance Examinations (JEE) conducted by IIT.
30 May, 2007, 12.30 PM IST