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JEE 2008 Result - IIT J
Posted Date: 16 Jun 2008 Resource Type: Results Category: General
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Posted By: Saranya Member Level: Diamond
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JEE 2008 Result - Press Note
The results of the prestigious and the most challenging competitive examination, the
Joint Entrance Examination (JEE), held on April 13, 2008 have been declared. One of the
important features of JEE 2008 result is that OBC reservation has been implemented and
a separate merit list for OBC candidates has been declared. Govt. of India have issued
notification for setting up of 8 new IITS in Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh,
Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, Punjab and Rajasthan in 11th plan. Admission to 6 of them, namely,
Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Gujarat, Orissa, Punjab and Rajastan for the academic session 2008-09
are likely to be made through JEE 2008. Also for the first time a JEE centre has been
opened out side India at Dubai.
Out of 311258 candidates who wrote the examination, 8652 candidates have been
declared qualified to seek admission for 6872 seats in IITs at Bombay, Delhi, Guwahati,
Kanpur, Kharagpur, Madras and Roorkee, some proposed new IITs, IT-BHU, Varanasi and
ISMU Dhanbad. The number of candidates who appeared in JEE 2008 is nearly 28%
more than in the previous year. Mr. Shitikanth (Reg. No. 1136075) from IIT Bombay Zone
topped this year’s All India list of successful candidates. The result of all zones in terms of
number of candidates appeared and qualified, and the name, registration no. and the
AIR of zonal topper is given under.
Zone-wise : Numbers Qualified and Toppers
Zone Appeared Qualified Topper Name Regn. No. AIR
IIT BOMBAY 61396 2551 SHITIKANTH 1136075 1
IIT DELHI 51373 1549 NIKHIL GARG 2096057 6
IIT GUWAHATI 19982 193 UTTAM SIKARIA 3005324 199
IIT KANPUR 46144 527 SHANTANU SARASWAT 4063175 61
IIT KHARAGPUR 40915 767 ANKIT KUMAR 5048404 38
IIT MADRAS 49831 2237 CHINTHANIPPU DINESH 6044346 7
IIT ROORKEE 41617 828 ABHINAV GARG 7002179 3
TOTAL 311258 8652
This year 78159 girls wrote JEE 2008 and 840 of them qualified. The numbers of the
appeared and the qualified girl candidates are respectively 39% and 43 % more than
the last year. Ms. N Vasuki (Reg. No. 6067096) from IIT Madras zone with an All India
Rank (AIR) of 14 topped the list of girl candidates. Also 3 out of 182 candidates who
wrote JEE examination from Dubai have qualified.
All Institutes having admission through JEE, admit OBC/SC/ST students with relaxed
criteria. This year 72116 OBC candidates wrote JEE 2008 out of which 1134 qualified.
Similarly of the 28393 SC candidates 690 qualified, of the 8514 ST candidates, 159 have
qualified. Mr Raproolu Nikhil Simha , AIR 27 in the common merit list, Mr Anandiya Jyoti
Roy , AIR 166 in the common merit list and Mr Rohit Singwal, AIR 429 in the common
merit list are the toppers of the OBC , SC and ST candidates respectively. Candidates
with certified physical disabilities (PD) are granted admission with relaxed norms. Twenty
candidates have qualified under these norms. For students with reading disability
specially printed enlarged font question papers were provided in the examination .
Counselling for admissions begins on 17th June and concludes on 21st June 2008 for
the declared All India Rank (AIR) holders. Courses allocated to the successful
candidates will be declared on Monday, the 30th June, 2008.
All the existing IITs, IT-BHU Varanasi and ISMU Dhanbad also conduct a one-year
Preparatory Course for SC/ST students who do not make it to the common or reserved
category merit lists. This year, 395 SC candidates and 409 ST candidates have qualified
for the Preparatory Course. Their counselling will be held on 7th July 2008 at IITs, IT-BHU
and ISMU.
The result of JEE 2008 may be accessed from all IIT websites and through an
Interactive Voice Response System (IVRS) specially set up for this purpose. The zonal
results are displayed in the respective IITs, IT-BHU and ISMU.
An extended merit list, category-wise, has also been drawn to facilitate admissions to
other Govt. of India Institutions and the same displayed on web site. Students on this list
may be counselled by the Indian Institute of Space-Science Technology (IIST), Indian
Institutes of Science Education and Research (IISERs) and Rajeev Gandhi Institute of
Petroleum Technology (RGIPT). The Indian Institute of Maritime Studies (formerly DG
Shipping) also offers admission based on JEE-2008 results.
Roorkee
May 30, 2008
For more details, visit http://www.iitk.ac.in/iitj/JEE%202008%20RESULTS-PRESS%20NOTE.pdf
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