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IIT entrance on April 13, nearly 3.2 lakh students to appear
NEW DELHI: Nearly 3.2 lakh students would appear in the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) on April 13 for admission into IITs across the country, registering an increase of about 70,000 candidates over last year.
There will be no change in the question pattern this time, Director of IIT Delhi Prof Surendra Prasad said on Sunday.
“The format of the examination remains the same as before. It will comprise two papers of 200 marks each,” he said.
Seven zones will conduct the test. Students qualifying for the entrance will be eligible to take admission to the IITs at Kharagpur, Mumbai, Chennai, Delhi, Kanpur, Guwahati and Roorkee. There are nearly 4000 seats in these elite institutions.
The candidates include 53,000 students from Delhi zone alone, Prasad said. The test will be held in 600 centres across the country, including 117 centres in Delhi zone.
The IIT JEE last year decided to change the pattern, making provision for two papers in place of three earlier. Each paper consist of questions from Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics. The questions are of objective type.
Earlier, the students had to appear for three papers, one each dealing with physics, chemistry and mathematics.
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