Vadodara: Around 630 students from the city qualified for JEE (advanced) – the entrance exams for the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology (IIT). The results of the JEE (main), the qualifying exam for JEE (advanced) were declared by Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on Monday evening.
Students of science stream from different schools of the city have fared well this year as last year only 454 students could crack the JEE (main) examination.
The cut-off for the common rank list which was 74 compared to last year which was 90 for general category too helped the students for qualifying for JEE (advanced). For the OBC the cut-off was 45 while for the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe candidates it was 24.
Meghana Missula, who…