The results of the IIT Joint Entrance Examination will be declared on 25/05/2011. Over 4 lakh candidates had appeared for the examination in over a 1000 centres across India this year.
IIT Kanpur, the nodal agency conducting the exams this year has also decided to withhold the results of 30 students caught cheating at a centre in Bhatinda. Also, IIT Kanpur declared that all candidates will get full marks for two questions that had an error in the mathematics paper.
But there is relief for those who thought the tech schools may hike fees. Tuition fees remain the same with IIT-Kanpur’s at Rs 34,692 per semester and IIT-Delhi’s at Rs 27,035.
The results will be available on the JEE website, also results will be pasted on notice boards of all the IITs. Candidates can also call up the JEE cells helpline numbers set up at every IIT. counseling is online for all candidates this year. There will be two rounds of admission. Two years ago, this paper had campaigned for a second round of admission as several seats at the IITs were going a begging. Currently, the total intake at all the IITs stands at a little over 9,600.
There is respite for physically challenged students who, till last year had to travel to Delhi for a medical check-up. This year, there are medical boards set up in IIT-Bombay, Delhi, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Guwahati and IIT-Madras.
