The race to get a seat in the elite IITs just got tougher this year. Close to 4.5 lakh candidates have applied to appear for this year's Joint Entrance Examinations (JEE), up from the 3.85 lakh, who took the test last year. According to the data from IIT Madras, the nodal IIT that will co-ordinate JEE 2010, these candidates will take the entrance exam across seven zones n the country on April 11. They will vie for 7,417 seats spread across the IITs. The average number of students vying for a seat stands at 61, as against Harvard and MIT, where only 8 students on an average apply for one seat.
- Times Of India, 15th January, 2010
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