Only 7.88 per cent of the students who sat for the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Main examination from Odisha have qualified for the advanced examination, conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), the results were declared on Wednesday evening.
Around 47,000 students from the State had appeared at the JEE Main test out of which 3,700 qualified for the next round. The number of students from Odisha who had qualified in JEE Mains in 2015 was 3,408.
The all-India results can be accessed on websites: http://jeemain.nic.in/, cbseresults.nic.in.
Nearly, 12 lakh students had sat for the examination on April 9 of which 19,820 qualified for the JEE (Advanced) Online while 1,78,408 candidates qualified for the JEE (Advanced) offline test.
Candidates who secured positions among the top 1.5 lakh ranks are eligible for JEE Advanced examination.
Candidates who have cleared JEE Advanced examination will be eligible for admissions to the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) in Bhubaneswar, Bombay, Delhi, Gandhinagar, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Indore, Jodhpur, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Madras, Patna, Roorkee, Ropar and Varanasi.
Besides, the students can also apply to the Indian School of Mines in Dhanbad which has 18 academic departments covering a varied range of courses in Engineering, Applied Sciences, Humanities, Social Sciences and Management programmes. JEE Advanced examination will be held on May 22.