Getting admission into IIT’s not an easy job. The competition is fierce as the number of candidates appearing multiply while the seats remain the same. This year’s IIT joint entrance exam was no different. A total of 384977 candidates appeared in JEE-2009 which was conducted by seven of the IITs on April 12, 2009. Out of them 10035 candidates have been declared qualified to seek admission for 8295 seats in the IITs at Bhubaneswar, Bombay, Delhi, Gandhinagar, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Indore, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Madras, Mandi (H.P.), Patna, Punjab, Rajasthan and Roorkee, IT-BHU Varanasi and ISMU Dhanbad. The number of candidates who appeared in JEE-2009 is nearly 24% more than that in the previous year.

The maximum number of students making it to the IITs this year is from the Bombay zone, with the Maximum City also contributing two among the top ten rankers. But all-India topper Nitin Jain, from Haryana’s Faridabad, gave Delhi zone the icing as the IIT-JEE results were announced on Monday. The all-India success rate has fallen to 2.6% this year from 2.8% in 2008.

We at ZaaBiz congratulate all the candidates who have managed to clear one of the toughest and the most competitive exam with flying colours.