26,000 candidates DID NOT filled the JEE ADVANCED 2014 Form
Nearly 26,000 candidates who cleared this year’s JEE (Main), the first of the two-tier IIT entrance exam, have opted out of the final one, probably headed to other institutions that admit students based on scores in the preliminary test. The number is nearly 17 per cent of the nearly 1.54 lakh candidates who cracked JEE (Main) and were last week declared eligible to sit for JEE-Advanced, the final test for 10,000 IIT seats in B.Tech courses. “Despite success in JEE-Main, many candidates do not aspire to a seat in the IITs. They get admission in the National Institutes of Technology (NIT), the Indian Institutes of Information Technology (IIIT) and state engineering institutions. They opt out of JEE-Advanced,” an IIT official said. Eligible candidates were supposed to register by today for JEE-Advanced, being conducted under the supervision of IIT Kharagpur this year. Sources said around 1.28 lakh candidates had signed up for the May 25 test. Last year,