As many as 24,827 students from Odisha and other States appeared for the entrance examination of the Odisha University of Agriculture Technology (OUAT) at 57 centres across the State, here on Sunday.
In Bhubaneswar, 5,800 students appeared for the exam at 10 centres.
The applicants appeared in the exams for admission to a total of 608 seats in Animal Husbandry, Agriculture, Horticulture, Agriculture Engineering, Fisheries, Forestry and Home Science.
Results of the examinations would be announced in the third week of June, OUAT Registrar Rabindra Kumar Das said.
Similarly, a total of 2,300 students from the State sat in the IIT-JEE (Advance) examination across five centres in the State.
While 1,900 students appeared the examination at four centres in Bhubaneswar the remaining 400 students appeared the same in one centre at Rourkela.
Students clearing the examination would be eligible for admission in the undergraduate courses at 16 IITs and Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad.The results would be announced on June, 19.