4.85 lakh students appear for IIT entrance exam

New Delhi: Around 4.85 lakh students appeared for the joint entrance
examination of the prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology
(IIT-JEE) on Sunday for 9,600 seats in 15 premier institutions.

The exam will be held in two sessions - from 9 a.m. to 12 noon and 2
p.m. to 5 p.m. - across 1,051 centres in 131 cities across the
country, an official statement said. The results will be declared on
May 25.
For the first time, students will get to see scanned answer sheets
online after the results are declared.

The number of students appearing this year is 30,000 more than last
year's figure, a rise of 6.5 percent. Model solutions of the paper
will be put up on May 15, according to the IIT-JEE website. IANS