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New Delhi:
The results of the Joint Entrance Examination for the prestigious
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT-JEE) 2012 were declared
Friday.
The results of the exam, which was held April 8, were announced on
the official JEE website Friday morning at 6 a.m.
"Arpit Agrawal from Faridabad's Modern Vidya Niketan school, who
appeared in the exams from IIT Delhi zone has topped the
prestigious exam this year," G.B Reddy, JEE chairman, told
reporters here.
Bijoy Singh Kochar from Chandigarh was the second on the toppers'
list and Nishant N. Kaushik from Bhilai in Madhya Pradesh secured
the third place.
A total of 4,79,651 students appeared for the IIT-JEE 2012 which
were held at 1,067 centres across the country for admission to
9,647 undergraduate seats in the 17 IITs in the country.
"Of the total candidates, 24,112 have secured ranks in various
categories and 19,426 have been shortlisted for counselling for
admission to 9,647 seats in the IITs and other institutes," Reddy
said.
"The counselling website will be open to the shortlisted
candidates from today (Friday) and the students are expected to
fill up their choice of courses up to 5 p.m. till June 10," Reddy
said.
For the first time this year, the scanned images of the answer
script were shown to the candidates between May 5 and May 10 to
help them submit online revision requests.
This year, of the total 1,50,431 girls who appeared in IIT-JEE,
2,886 have secured ranks and the first 1,908 have been shortlisted
for counselling.
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