JEE Mains : Telugu students secured top ranks

Hyderabad, May 17: The success of Telugu students in JEE Mains is still continuing. 31,695 students have passed in the main exams and now they are getting ready to show their best for the Advanced Exam which will be held on the 21st May.

AP and Telangana are in the fourth and fifth positions respectively. The total 14.34% students are qualified from Telugu students.

* JEE Mains, which was nationally held in April, had a total of 11.5 lakhs out of which 2.21 lakhs qualified for advances.

* Approximately 1.60 lakh people from the Telugu States had written the exam out of them 31,695% were eligible for the advanced exam.

* Students who wrote exams from both AP and Telangana, out of every 100 students 20 students are qualified and going to write the JEE Advance on March 21.

In the Northern States, there is an opinion that Telugu students are eligible in JEE with 40 percent weight-age of the intermediate marks. The Central Committee also expressed similar views.

In this background, Inter marks weight-age was dropped from the 2017 test. Experts have a discussion on its effect. Several northern states, especially the Telugu students, have seen interestingly.

Telangana and AP students selected for the 2017 JEE Advance are only 0.13 percent lower when compared to 2016. Experts say that the number of Telugu students in the success is not reduced as the students continue to change the way they are prepared and the training institutes continue to do so.

The number of girls entering into IITs is only 8 or 9. But 8,109 girls have been selected for the advanced exam in the Telugu state. That means 25.6 percent of the Telugu students are only girls.

40 percent of the Girls were selected from Kerala. Maharashtra is ranked first in the category of states, followed by Telangana, Kerala, and AP with two, three and fourth position respectively.