IIT's extended merit list for JEE Advanced to benefit 14,000 students
IIT's extended merit list for JEE Advanced to benefit 14,000 students on Business Standard. The extended merit list added 8,954 candidates in general, 3,824 in OBC, 771 in SC, and 293 in ST categories -- a total of 31,980 eligible candidates across categories
Latest News Following a direction from the Union Human Resource Development (HRD) ministry, the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IIT Kanpur) has released an extended merit list with 31,980 candidates, instead of the 18,138 who had earlier been declared as qualified for JEE Advancedentrance test on June 10. The direction by the HRD ministry, issued late on Wednesday night, clearly said that a supplementary list should be published with twice the number of total seats on offer in each discipline and each category -- general as well reserved ones. The HRD ministry direction will benefit close to 14,000 more students as they were included in the JEE-advanced merit list. The candidates could check the extended merit list for IIT JEE Advanced-entrance test on jeeadv.ac.in or click here. The extended merit list was issued following a meeting of IITs' Joint Admission Board (JAB) on Thursday. "Choice filling on JoSAA (Joint Seat Allocation Authority) would be started on 15th June as scheduled earlier. Students in the extended merit list can start filling up their options along with others," an official statement said.
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