It was a day-long anxious wait for the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) aspirants on Wednesday as the server of JEE Mains and that of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) crashed under heavy load of result seekers.
The result which was expected to be declared at 10 am was finally declared late evening. Though it was not clear till the time of filing the report but it appeared that with a total kitty of 275 marks out of 360, Akash Kapoor of Bansal Classes topped in the state capital. Harsh Chaudhary of Aviral Classes also got a very good score of 252. The Managing Director (MD) of Aviral Classes, DK Mishra claimed that more than 200 candidates have been selected from his institute.
The MD of the Baluni Classes Vipin Baluni claimed that initial trends reflect that more than 100 students from the institute have qualified the examination. He said that the cut-off for the general category candidates was 100 marks out of 360 while the cut-off for OBC, SC and ST candidates remained at 70, 52 and 48, respectively.
More than 12 lakh candidates had appeared in the coveted examination across the country. Top 2 lakh candidates would be eligible to appear in the JEE Advanced which is scheduled next month. The registration for JEE Advance examination would begin on April 29 and conclude on May 4.