MUMBAI: Uttar Pradesh has seen the maximum count of candidates who have made the cut this year to take the gruelling JEE (Advanced) exams. Maharashtra has moved up one spot, from third last year to second, and Rajasthan, which was second, is now a close third.
Interestingly, of the 2.2 lakh candidates who cleared the first barrier of the JEE (Main), 19% were girls, and the largest chunk hail from Maharashtra, followed by Telangana. Like the past few years, what hasn’t altered is the high success rate of high school graduates from the CBSE board. “Many CBSE students always managed to crack the JEE. But we see that each year, the dynamics of the other state boards change,” said an IIT director.”Even among the top rankers, we see a kind of…
