Bhubaneswar, May 20: The Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Advanced examination is scheduled to be held tomorrow on May 21. around 2500 students from Odisha have qualified to appear the exams. In the past years, it has been noticed that only seven to eight percent students qualify for the Advanced JEE examination every year and this now has become a major concern for the educationists. This year, out of 52,560 students, only 2500 have qualified that is just 7.88 per cent. In 2016, 47,000 students from Odisha had appeared for the JEE mains out of which just 3,700 qualified for the Advanced. Likewise in 2015, the number of qualified students from Odisha was 3,408. The JEE Mains 2017 conducted by the CBSE was held at 82 centres in Odisha including Bhubaneswar, Cuttack, Balasore, Sambalpur, Roukela, and Berhampur on Apr 2. The students who clear the Advanced level will have a chance to get admissions in IITs here, in Mumbai, Delhi, Gandhinagar, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Indore, Jodhpur, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Madras, Patna, Roorkee, Ropar and Varanasi.
