8,000 crack IIT-JEE (Main) in Jharkhand

Engineering aspirants from 

Jharkhand on Tuesday

proved their mettle

with around 8,000

students cracking the

first IIT-JEE (Main)

examination organized

by the Central Board of

Secondary Education

(CBSE).

Around 45,000 students

from the state had

appeared in the first

IIT-JEE which was

earlier known as All

India Engineering

Entrance Examination

(AIEEE) has been

renamed as the JEE

(main) from this year.

Ashish Anand, director

of Persistence

Education Pvt Ltd, said,

"Approximately 45,000

students sat for the

exam from the state

and according to the

latest figures available

8,000 students qualified

for the advance test,

the next phase of

examination."

The marks of the IIT-

JEE (Main) will decide

admission to centrally-

funded institutions like

IIT, National Institute

of Technology and

Indian Institutes of

Information

Technology . The

advance test will be

held on June 2.