In October, the JEE
(Advanced) conducting authorities released a set of data reports on the final
results of the JEE (Advanced) and its previous avatars, from 2011 onwards. In
this set of analysis of these reports, we will discuss individual elements of
the reports and how they are shaping up for you.
In this article, we cover how the students who come under
the Persons with Disability (PwD) category performed.
Students who come under the PwD category would need to have
40% impairment, irrespective of the type of disability: locomotor, visual or
dyslexic. Candidates who have been cured of leprosy and are otherwise fit to
pursue the course were also included in this category.
3% of the seats in each category were reserved for the PwD
candidates. Hence each category, viz. General, OBC, SC & ST, had a sub
quota for PwD candidates. The cutoffs marks for PwD candidates were the same as
the lowest cutoffs for any of these categories. (Cutoffs have been discussed in
our previous article, linked here.
Reservation of PwD seats was horizontal to the category,
hence if the seats went unfilled, they would be allotted to other candidates in
the same category. For example, if a seat reserved for the General PwD category
in a course went unfilled, it would be allotted to a student in the General
category.
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Only 1354 candidates in the PwD category registered for JEE
(Advanced), out of which 1204 appeared and 305 candidates qualified for seat
allocation. 178 of these candidates were allotted seats. 110 seats were
unfilled and were allotted to non-PwD students, and 12 seats were vacant.
IIT Kharagpur & IIT Bombay took in the maximum PwD candidates at 24 & 22 each. IIT Delhi was 3rd with 18 candidates.