New Delhi, April 10 (IANS) Around 4.85 lakh students appeared for the joint entrance examination of the prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT-JEE) Sunday for 9,600 seats in 15 premier institutions.
The exam will be held in two sessions - from 9 a.m. to 12 noon and 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. - across 1,051 centres in 131 cities across the country, an official statement said. The results will be declared May 25.
For the first time, students will get to see scanned answer sheets online after the results are declared.
The number of students appearing this year is 30,000 more than last year's figure, a rise of 6.5 percent. Model solutions of the paper will be put up May 15, according to the IIT-JEE website.