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Madras Boy Anumula Jithender Reddy Tops IIT-JEE

Madras boy Anumula Jithendar Reddy has topped the prestigious IIT-JEE 2010 as a total of 13, 104 candidates made it to the hallowed institutes, said media reports.

The students clearing the exams can now seek admission to one of the 15 IITs, ISM Dhanbad and IT-BHU, which have 9,509 seats.

More than 4.5 lakh students had appeared in JEE-2010 conducted by seven of the IITs on April 11.

This year, nearly 18.3% more students appeared in the exam than the previous year.

In a release, the IITs said that Reddy, who appeared in JEE from IIT Madras Zone, topped this year’s All India list of successful candidates, reports said.

Out of the seven zones where exam was conducted, the IIT Bombay zone produced maximum number of successful candidates with 3145 students figuring in the merit list followed by IIT Madras (2619), IIT Delhi (2264), IIT Kharagpur (1481), IIT Kanpur (1341), IIT Roorkee (1305) and IIT Guwahati (521), said reports.

Out of 1.13 lakh girls who appeared in the test, 1476 qualified with Aakanksha Tushar Sarda emerging topper among girls with an All India Rank of 18, reports said.

About 554 candidates in Hindi medium have qualified for the entrance test which is a three fold rise over last year’s 184, said reports.

(Based on internet reports)

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