JEE (Advanced) cut-offs drop, toppers all eye IIT-Bombay

MUMBAI: The overall cut-off for all categories slipped considerably in the 2018 JEE (Main) exam. The common rank list cut-off dropped from 81 last year to 74. Around 10,000 more students qualified this year to take the JEE (Advanced), the passport to the IITs, lowering the cut-off.

The all-India topper from Andhra Pradesh has set his eyes on IIT-Bombay. So has

Bhaskar Gupta

, the city topper with AIR 7. He wants to do computer science degree from IIT-B. “I am passionate about maths. I find the subject very easy as it has no theory, but only equations,” said an ecstatic Gupta, whose father is an IITian and mother a doctor.

Three Delhi

students figured in the top 20. Delhi state topper, Simar Preet Saluja, bagged the 9th position with a score of 345. A student of DPS-R K Puram, Saluja was also a Delhi topper in the National Talent Search Examination conducted by the National Council of Educational Research and Technology in 2016, and the Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana (KVPY) exam.

Andheri resident Avyakta Wrat from Pace Junior College, who stood 561, seemed to be among the high scorers among girls. IIT-Bombay campus resident Sai Kiran is among the state’s SC high scorers with AIR 6. “I have no plans right now. All my time is going to go in preparing the Advanced,” he said.

A total of 2.3 lakh candidates qualified for the Advanced exam, including 1.8 lakh boys and 50,000 girls — 22% of the total. Last year, around 2.2 lakh students had made the cut for the JEE (A). Interestingly, of this year’s total candidates slated to take the Advanced exam, 1.1lakh (48%) are from the general category. A little more than 28% are OBC–NCL, 15% are SC and 7.5% are ST candidates.

(Inputs from Shoeb Khan, Krittika Sharma and KVenkat)

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