JEE Main 2014 Result Analysis

JEE Main 2014 was conducted in two phases - online and offline. While the offline exam was conducted on April 6, the online exam was conducted in a span of four days beginning on April 9 and further being conducted on April 11, 12, and 19.

The exam – both online and offline – was taken by approximately 13,56,805 engineering aspirants. Out of these, approximately five lakh students took the online exam. Of the total students who applied for the exam, 74% were male candidates and the rest 26% were females.

While the offline exam was held across a total of 150 cities in India and Abroad, the online exam was conducted in 235 cities/ towns this year.

Talking about registrations, Maharashtra outnumbered all other states in the country. According to reports, maximum applications received for the exam were from Maharashtra (2,45,582 applications) followed by Uttar Pradesh (1,58,451 applications) and Andhra Pradesh (1,22,863 applications).

Subsequently, out of the total registrations for JEE Main 2014, 50% aspirants were from the reserved quota category including the Other Backward Classes (OBCs), Scheduled Castes (SCs) category and Scheduled Tribes (STs). According to sources, 4.7 lakh aspirants were from the OBC quota, 1.36 lakh from SC category and 57,000 from ST category. The remaining (approx.) 6.9 lakh aspirants were from the general category.

The results of the exam were declared on May 2, 2014, a day in advance of the expected day of result declaration. Pramod Vakacharla from Andhra Pradesh topped the exam with the highest score of 355/360. Mohammad Akram Khan of Andhra Pradesh and Kishalay Raj from Jharkhand secured the second position by securing the second highest marks, i.e. 350/360. However, among girls, one of the top scorers got 306.

Five states that witnessed highest number of qualifiers in JEE Mains 2014 are:

Andhra Pradesh	21,818
UP	19,409
Rajasthan	16,867
Maharashtra	13,626
Bihar	10,987

 

These states have contributed over 80,000 of the 1.54 lakh students or 53.3% of the students who have qualified for JEE Advanced 2014. These exam qualifiers will now sit for the entrance on May 25 for 10,000 seats offered by the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs).

The cut-offs for JEE Advanced too were released on the day of the exam results.

Category	Cut-off Marks
Common Merit List (CML)	115
OBC-NCL	74
SC	53
ST	47

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