NEW DELHI: Joint Entrance Examination (Main) 2024 registered record 12.3 lakh aspirants for the January session, surpassing 2023’s cumulative (January and April) registration by nearly 68,000. Compared with the first session of examination in 2023, the number of applicants has increased by 3.7 lakh.
The first session of the entrance test for admission to undergraduate engineering and architecture/ planning programmes is to be conducted between January 24 and February 1, 2024 and the registration process for the April session will be re-opened thereafter.The results for the January 2024 session will be announced on February 12, 2024.
State-wise, Maharashtra (1.6 lakh) continues to lead the pack, followed by Andhra Pradesh (1.3 lakh) and Telangana (1.2 lakh), with all three states going to have significantly higher number of candidates as compared with 2023 exams. In 2023, Maharashtra saw 1.3 registrations, Andhra Pradesh1 lakh and Telangana 95,000.
Gender-wise, female representations too have marginally improved at over 33% of the total for JEE (Main) 2024, up from 30.8% in 2023. The test also received the highest number of registrations in the third gender at 19.
JEE (Main) 2024 will be conducted in 13 languages — English, Hindi, Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu. Language-wise, the number of test takers in English continues to grow surpassing the 11 lakh mark while the number of examinees in Hindi medium has witnessed a fall to around 40,000. Gujarati registers the third highest number (16,731).
The first session of the entrance test for admission to undergraduate engineering and architecture/ planning programmes is to be conducted between January 24 and February 1, 2024 and the registration process for the April session will be re-opened thereafter.The results for the January 2024 session will be announced on February 12, 2024.
State-wise, Maharashtra (1.6 lakh) continues to lead the pack, followed by Andhra Pradesh (1.3 lakh) and Telangana (1.2 lakh), with all three states going to have significantly higher number of candidates as compared with 2023 exams. In 2023, Maharashtra saw 1.3 registrations, Andhra Pradesh1 lakh and Telangana 95,000.
Gender-wise, female representations too have marginally improved at over 33% of the total for JEE (Main) 2024, up from 30.8% in 2023. The test also received the highest number of registrations in the third gender at 19.
JEE (Main) 2024 will be conducted in 13 languages — English, Hindi, Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu. Language-wise, the number of test takers in English continues to grow surpassing the 11 lakh mark while the number of examinees in Hindi medium has witnessed a fall to around 40,000. Gujarati registers the third highest number (16,731).