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Published on Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 10:18, Updated at Sat, Apr 07, 2007 in 
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CRACKING IIT: The number of students appearing for the IIT JEE has dramatically fallen this year.
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New Delhi: The IIT Exam is considered to be one of the toughest exams in the world but cracking it this year might just get a little easier.
Seventeen-year-old Ankur Bhattacharya wants to own Microsoft one day, but as now he has been kept busy by preparing for the IIT Joint Entrance Exam.
“I have put in 12 hours a day and 365 days a year. I have studied on Sundays and missed all family functions. There's no way I won't make it,” says Ankur.
Ankur may have won half the battle by thinking positively, but his journey to the premier engineering institute may be made even smoother.
The number of students appearing for the IIT JEE has dramatically fallen this year as compared to last year's three lakh students who competed for 4,078 seats.
This year only 2.52 lakh students will vie for 4600 seats that is 50,00 students less than last year, and around 500 seats more.
“From 2007 onwards only those students who have taken classes in 2006 can apply and students who have applied earlier are not eligible,” says
However, all this doesn't mean that getting in is going to be a piece of cake, there will be 55 students vying for each seat.
And for those who don't make it there's always MIT and Harvard where there is a seat for every eight competing students.
The IITs have increased their seats by nine to accommodate the OBC quota but are waiting for further instructions from the HRD Ministry on whether to implement it or not. The results for the JEE are likely to be announced by the end of May.
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