As many as 316 students of the FIITJEE, Bhubaneswar and Cuttack centres first round of the Joint Entrance Examination for entry to IIT’s and other prestigious engineering colleges.
The students include 264 from classroom programmes and 52 students from nonclassroom programmes. They have qualified the JEE Main Exams, results of which were published on Thursday, and become eligible to appear for the JEE Advanced, to be held on May 21, 2017.
As many as 16 students from classroom programmes have secured over 250 marks and as many as 26 students from classroom programes have secured over 230 marks.
The top scorers are Anubhav Satpathy (298), Bibhu Prasad Khadanga (292), Swastik Sahoo (289), Piush Ranjan Jena (282) and Hrithik Agarwal (281).
FIITJEE Odisha Operation mentor Prafulla Kumar Dash and Bhubaneswar centre head Ranajoy Bardhan congratulated the students for the success.