In IIT Joint Entrance Examination 3,84,977 students, including 98,028 girls, appeared in the test, a total of 10,035 students, including 1,048 girls, qualified.

Around 3.13 per cent boys qualified the test while girls failed to put up a good performance with only 1.07 per cent of them clearing it.

The students, who cracked the test, will get admission into 15 IITs, IT-BHU and ISM Dhanbad, which will offer 8,295 seats. These institutes had offered 6,332 seats last year.

The number increased as two new IITs will commence this year while the existing ones would accommodate an additional OBC student under the OBC quota.

'There will be more seats in the IITs this year as the institutes will continue implementation of OBC quota. Besides, two new IITs, one in Mandi in Himachal Pradesh and another in Indore in Madhya Pradesh, will start functioning,' IIT Guwahati Director Prof Gautam Baruah said.

Jain, who topped the test was a student of Modern Vidya Niketan in Faridabad. Shubham Tulsiani from Bombay zone secured the second position while the third slot went to Gopi Sivakanth, an OBC candidate, from Chennai zone.

Zone wise, the highest number of 3,379 students have qualified from Bombay followed by 2426 from Madras, 1524 from Delhi, 928 from Kharagpur, 912 from Roorkee, 603 from Kanpur and 263 from Guwahati.

Among the girls, Kritika Singh from IIT Kanpur zone emerged topper with an all India rank of 56. About 176 candidates wrote the test from Dubai centre, of which seven of them qualified.

The institutes admit OBC, SC and ST students with relaxed criteria. Out of 1,04,045 OBC candidates, 1,930 have found place in the merit list. Similarly, 36,117 SC students had sat for the test while 967 qualified and 208 of the 12,484 ST students cracked the test. As many as 138 candidates with
physically disability have qualified.

The institutes will provide one-year preparatory course to SC/ST and physically disabled students who do not figure in the merit list. This year, about 473 SC candidates, 641 ST students and 170 PD candidates have qualified for preparatory courses.

The counseling for admission will start from June nine to June 16, Baruah said. Course allocation to successful candidates will be declared on June 24.