State Board Students Who Cracked JEE: Board-Wise Performance Analysis
Admission to top engineering colleges such as IITs and NITs is desired by many Science stream students. It is a general notion that only CBSE Board or CISCE board students are more capable of cracking the JEE Exam, but students of various state boards also perform well as per previous year performance.
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- Top Performing Boards in JEE Mains
- Boards with Moderate to Lower Success Rate in JEE Mains
- Possible Reasons for Some State Boards which Underformed
As per a comparative study done in 2018 by IIT Kanpur, in which various state board’s performances were assessed, 55.18% of the students were from CBSE Board followed by the Telangana Board of Intermediate Education with 10.85% and Andhra Pradesh Board of Intermediate Education with 8.34% students who successfully cracked JEE Mains and took admission to esteemed institutions. Let us explore how various state board students fared in the JEE Mains.
Top Performing Boards in JEE Mains
As per the official data of 2018, about 71,403 students who registered for JEE Main exam were from the Central Board of Secondary Education. 6600 were able to successfully crack the exam and get admission.
Students from the Maharastra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education also performed well as per the comparative study with 2307 students who qualified JEE Mains exam. 853 students took the final admission.
8981 students who were from the RBSE Board had registered for JEE Mains, out of which 1922 qualified in the exam and 745 took the final admission.
Students from the Telangana Board also performed well, securing the second-highest admissions after CBSE with 14,559 students who registered for the exam and 2853 and 1,298 who cracked the exam and took the admission, respectively.
Students from the Board of Intermediate Education, Andhra Pradesh, had a good success rate as well at cracking the JEE exam. With 14,017 students who registered for the exam, 2,374 successfully qualified it and 998 students were admitted to various colleges.
Boards with Moderate to Lower Success Rate in JEE Mains
Boards, including the Department of Pre-University Education, Karnataka, Bihar Board, MPBSE and West Bengal Board, have shown moderate performance levels in the JEE Main exam as per the official data released by IIT Kanpur in 2018. The complete data, including the number of candidates registered, qualified and admitted can be seen in the table given below.
State boards such as the Assam Board, Odisha Board, Tamil Nadu Board, Jharkhand Board and many others had an underwhelming success rate. The complete data is given in the table below.
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S No. | Name of the Board | Registered | Qualified | Admitted | |||
Count | % | Count | % | Count | % | ||
1 | Andhra Pradesh Board of Intermediate Education | 14017 | 8.5 | 2374 | 7.42 | 998 | 8.34 |
2 | Assam Higher Secondary Education Council | 966 | 0.59 | 100 | 0.31 | 34 | 0.28 |
3 | Bihar Intermediate Education Council (Bihar School Examination Board) | 5424 | 3.29 | 608 | 1.9 | 208 | 1.74 |
4 | Central Board of Secondary Education | 71403 | 43.32 | 17820 | 55.71 | 6600 | 55.18 |
5 | Chattisgarh Madhyamik Shiksha Mandal (Chattisgarh Board of Secondary Education) | 896 | 0.54 | 82 | 0.26 | 42 | 0.35 |
6 | Council for The Indian School Certificate Examinations | 4701 | 2.85 | 1036 | 3.24 | 327 | 2.73 |
7 | Goa Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education | 106 | 0.06 | 29 | 0.09 | 10 | 0.08 |
8 | Gujarat Secondary Education Board | 3540 | 2.15 | 427 | 1.33 | 121 | 1.01 |
9 | Board of School Education Haryana (Haryana Board of Education) | 580 | 0.35 | 64 | 0.2 | 15 | 0.13 |
10 | HP Board of School Education | 424 | 0.26 | 26 | 0.08 | 8 | 0.07 |
11 | J and K State Board of School Education | 393 | 0.24 | 51 | 0.16 | 15 | 0.13 |
12 | Jharkhand Academic Council | 710 | 0.43 | 59 | 0.18 | 16 | 0.13 |
13 | Karnataka Board of Pre-University Education | 5361 | 3.25 | 417 | 1.3 | 96 | 0.8 |
14 | Kerala Board of Public Examinations/ Vocational Higher Secondary Education | 2783 | 1.69 | 161 | 0.5 | 51 | 0.43 |
15 | Madhya Pradesh Board of Secondary Education | 3823 | 2.32 | 469 | 1.47 | 192 | 1.61 |
16 | Maharastra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education | 12983 | 7.88 | 2307 | 7.21 | 853 | 7.13 |
17 | Manipur Council of Higher Secondary Education | 77 | 0.05 | 13 | 0.04 | 4 | 0.03 |
18 | Meghalaya Board of Secondary Education | 117 | 0.07 | 2 | 0.01 | 1 | 0.01 |
19 | Mizoram Board of School Education | 33 | 0.02 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.01 |
20 | Nagaland Board of School Education | 83 | 0.05 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
21 | Odisha Council of Higher Secondary Education | 1483 | 0.9 | 76 | 0.24 | 17 | 0.14 |
22 | Punjab School Education Board | 397 | 0.24 | 50 | 0.16 | 11 | 0.09 |
23 | Rajasthan Board of Secondary Education | 8981 | 5.45 | 1922 | 6.01 | 745 | 6.23 |
24 | Tamil Nadu Board of Higher Secondary Education | 2870 | 1.74 | 59 | 0.18 | 20 | 0.17 |
25 | Tripura Board of Secondary Education | 71 | 0.04 | 10 | 0.03 | 3 | 0.03 |
26 | U P Board of High School and Intermediate Education | 3787 | 2.3 | 406 | 1.27 | 115 | 0.96 |
27 | Uttaranchal Shiksha Evam Pariksha Parishad | 125 | 0.08 | 11 | 0.03 | 4 | 0.03 |
28 | West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education | 2326 | 1.41 | 318 | 0.99 | 80 | 0.67 |
29 | National Institute of Open Schooling | 264 | 0.16 | 33 | 0.1 | 13 | 0.11 |
30 | Jamia Milia Islamia, New Delhi | 33 | 0.02 | 3 | 0.01 | 1 | 0.01 |
31 | Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh | 201 | 0.12 | 50 | 0.16 | 15 | 0.13 |
32 | Dayalbagh Educational Institute, Agra | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
33 | Banasthali Vidyapeeth, Rajasthan | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
34 | Vishwa Bharti University, Shantiniketan, Birbhoom, WB | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0.01 | 0 | 0 |
35 | Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies, Hyderabad | 51 | 0.03 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.01 |
36 | Haryana Open School, Bhiwani | 24 | 0.01 | 4 | 0.01 | 2 | 0.02 |
37 | Rajasthan State Open School, Jaipur | 13 | 0.01 | 3 | 0.01 | 0 | 0 |
38 | M P State Open School, Bhopal | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0.01 | 1 | 0.01 |
39 | Andhra Pradesh Open School Society | 12 | 0.01 | 3 | 0.01 | 0 | 0 |
40 | Bihar Board of Open Schooling Examination | 65 | 0.04 | 4 | 0.01 | 3 | 0.03 |
41 | Chhattisgarh State Open School | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
42 | CBSE I (CBSE International) | 480 | 0.29 | 65 | 0.2 | 18 | 0.15 |
43 | Telangana State Board of Intermediate Education | 14559 | 8.83 | 2853 | 8.92 | 1298 | 10.85 |
44 | Telangana Pradesh Open School Society | 53 | 0.03 | 13 | 0.04 | 8 | 0.07 |
45 | West Bengal Council of Rabindra Open Schooling | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
46 | Assam State Open School | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
47 | A Level of General Certificate of Education, Cambridge University (IGSE) | 20 | 0.01 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
48 | International Baccalaureate | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
49 | Edexcel, London (UK) | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
50 | Polytechnic Diploma/Technical/Vocational Board | 68 | 0.04 | 2 | 0.01 | 0 | 0 |
51 | Others | 462 | 0.28 | 47 | 0.15 | 13 | 0.11 |
52 | No Information | 32 | 0.02 | 2 | 0.01 | 1 | 0.01 |
Total | 164822 | 100 | 31988 | 100 | 11961 | 100 | |
Possible Reasons for Some State Boards which Underformed
Students from some state boards who have lower success rates at cracking the JEE Main competitive exam could be due to the following reasons:
There could be a lack of enough resources. The questions asked in the JEE Main exam are based on the concepts included in NCERT Books. Some state boards follow a curriculum which is designed by them and may not include all the topics which are essential for cracking competitive exams like JEE.
The CBSE Class 11 syllabus and CBSE Class 12 syllabus are easily accessible online, and state board students can take advantage of the same. The CBSE syllabus aligns well with the JEE Main syllabus. Hence, no matter what books they study for appearing in the board exams of their respective state, they must also study the CBSE syllabus well to increase their chances of nailing the JEE exam.
There could be a serious language barrier issue which debars or prevents students from understanding difficult technical concepts in English. Credible and good study resources in the preferred or native language may not be readily available.
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