IIT-JEE: Indore boy bags 82nd rank

INDORE: The results for the IIT-JEE, one of the gateways to the prestigious technical education institutes in the country, was declared on Friday with as many as 325 students receiving all India ranking from the city alone. Though out of the 8,000 students who appeared for the examination from the city, only one candidate received under 100 rank. Rishi Mundhra bagged 82nd rank in the general category followed by Parul Jain at 116th and Abhijit Joshi at 120th position respectively.
According to the experts, city students have bettered their performance this year.
“We have seen an increase by more than 50 per cent in the number of successful candidates from our institute this year. Our 32 students were selected last year. This year, the number has increased to 50,” said one of the directors of a coaching institute.
Counselling website will remain open for the shortlisted candidates till June 10, he informed.
It is for the first time that IIT-JEE has declared rankings of nearly 17,000 candidates out of which nearly 9,800 will be eligible for the counselling. Nearly, 4.80 lakh candidates had appeared in the examination held on April 8. Scores of the examination will be used for admission to prestigious technical institutes such as IT-BHU, Varanasi and ISM Dhanbad apart from the IITs.