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The exams have been scheduled for 24, 25, 28, 29, 30 and 31 of this month and also on 1 February. The exam that was announced to be held on 27 January was postponed to 1 February.
Last year, the number of vacant seats was 24,000; the scenario has improved this time.
JEE-Main enables students to gain entry to courses such as B Tech, BE, B Arch and B Planning at National Institutes of Technology, Indian Institutes of Information Technology, other centrally-funded technical institutions and institutions and universities recognized or receiving funds from state governments.
Applications for the exam will be accepted from December 15 to January 12.
New options for mop-up allotment to the government/aided engineering and architecture colleges in the state can be registered till 10am on Wednesday.
The notification regarding the final allotment and the time schedule to be present at the colleges will be published later.
According to statistics available with the Joint Seat Allocation Authority (JoSAA), 93 top candidates had chosen IIT Bombay as their first preference, and 69 of them made the cut in the first round of seat allocation for the IITs.
Options for admission to BTech courses in government, aided, government-funded private colleges and self-financing colleges could be submitted through the website.
Among the 155,538 applicants, 40,712 candidates qualified for admission. Last year, the pass percentage was 29.54%. Interestingly, this year, the cut off marks for qualifying the exam was lower than last year’s.
Thomas Biju is the son of Thiruvananthapuram Kesadasapuram natives Biju C Thomas who is a scientist at the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre and Reeni Rajan, an assistant professor of English at the Government Women’s College.