The main Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Advanced test was conducted on Sunday by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) across the country.
Of the about 1.5 lakh students who appeared in the examinations in the country, 3,317 were from Odisha.
The test was held in two sittings, from 9 am to 12 noon and 2 pm to 5 pm. The CBSE has set the cutoff mark for the examination at 100.
The examination in the State was held in seven centres in Bhubaneswar and two in Rourkela. Admission into IIITs, ISM Dhanbad and other Centrally-funded technical institutions will be based on this year’s entrance test scores.
As many as 48,000 students had appeared at the JEE Main offline test at 71 centres in nine cities across the State.