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JEE Advanced 2016 Results: Website to be functional by 12:45 p.m.

JEE Advanced portal is down since the results were announced at 9:50 a.m.

More than one lakh candidates are frantically waiting to check their results. PaGaLGuY spoke to JEE Advanced 2016 Chairman, Prof KV Krishna, about the problem.

He said, "The website did not crash, it is serving, but the traffic is huge. We are trying to provide some more facilities, and it will be live soon. Our server is on Google Cloud, it cannot really crash. But everything has its limitation and the traffic is so much, that some people are facing inconvenience."

Candidates are continuously trying to check their results. It seems a confirmation to their dreams to secure a seat in India's most prestigious engineering institutes is clogged somewhere in Google Cloud.

Krishna added, "Since our server is on Cloud, we can immediately increase the request rate. In morning itself, we increased the requests but we realised that even the back-end servers are also facing a lot of traffic."

"The traffic is huge, almost 10,000 requests per second, and JEE data server can hold up to only 2,000 requests per second. This is almost exponential, but increasing the requests is not a problem. We are already working on it, and students can check their results soon."

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Jee advance team should have predicted such load and provisioned the server with enough CPU and Memory resources. Cloud technology for such purpose only to meet elastic demands of traffic . I am not sure is any performance  testing is done for such situation . Peak load traffic should be predicted from previous experience. This is not expected from highly regarded technolgy brand like IIT who advises lot of govt digital initiatives . 

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IIT JEE advance result is out. The website was been down since morning but now its working. Follow the link to know your result. http://js2.iitd.ac.in. All the best.

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JEE Advanced 2016 Results: Three additional links created to divert traffic, yet results inaccessible

Aspirants who were eagerly waiting for the results of JEE advanced 2016 anticipated some technical issues. However, no anticipated that the website (https://portal.jeeadv.ac.in/) will remain unfunctional for over 6 hours. 

To solve this issue three additional links have been created via IIT Delhi's host server. Much to the dismay of the aspirants, these links too have not been functional. "We will create more links, so that the traffic will get distributed. We are working on them even at the moment. I would request the aspirants to keep trying." said KV Krishna, Chairman of JEE Advanced 2016.

IIT Guwahati is the conducting institute for this year. The issue of site crash has been attributed to the heavy traffic. The JEE Advanced server is on Cloud, and request rate for the same was increased on Sunday morning to deal with heavy traffic. "Even the back-end servers are facing a lot of traffic. There are almost 10,000 requests per second, and JEE data server can hold up to only 2,000 requests per second. It is almost exponential. We are working on it, and students will be able to check their results soon," Krishna assured.

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This is website design issue . This not expected from IIT who also has Computer Science as one of most regarded branch who creates CS professionals which are recruited by Google , MS, Oracle, IBM 

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JEE advanced 2016 Results: India's top 10 rankers

Rank 1 Aman Bansal

Rank 2 Bhavesh Dhingra

Rank 3 Kunal Goel

Rank 4 Duggani Jeevithesh

Rank 5 P Sai Teja

Rank 6 Kartik Palekar

Rank 7 G Nikhil Samrat

Rank 8 Sai Praineth Reddy

Rank 9 Gaurav Didwania

Rank 10 Vignesh Reddy

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JEE Advanced 2016 Results: AIR 1, 2 and 3 head to CSE, IIT Bombay

As always the All India Ranks 1, 2 and 3 of JEE Advanced 2016 have only one vision; to get admission into IIT Bombay in the computer science stream.  The students are ecstatic about their achievement. Here is what they had to say;

AIR 1: Aman Bansal from Jaipur

Score: 320/372

I feel very good. I can't believe that I made it to AIR 1. I studied very hard for this and thoroughly followed all the reference material given to me. I also made a list of whatever topics I had prepared so I had an account of my progress. Whatever confusions I had, I cleared them by discussing with my friends.

AIR: 2: Bhavesh Dhingra from Chandigarh

Score: 312/372

I have had only two years of JEE coaching, unlike some of my friends who have been taking coaching since class 8. I haven't thought so much about my future, but I just want to spend the next 4 years in IIT Bombay balancing between study and extra-curricular activities. I am originally from Delhi, but I'd prefer IIT Bombay for the level of exposure there.

AIR 3: Kunal Goel from Jaipur

Score: 310/372

My preparation was very good. I was regular with modules and Daily Practice Papers (DPP). I used to mark the difficult and tricky questions, which served as my last 2 months' revision material. My family's support gave me confidence. I also revised from NCERT.

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JEE Advanced 2016 Results: Debate over AIR 6 coaching comes to an end

For a major part of the day, two well-known coaching institutes have been debating over their claim of AIR 6. It seems as though Kartik Patekar had taking JEE coaching from two institutes, one based in Delhi and the other in Indore. However, when the JEE Advanced results were announced, both the institutes were in a dilemma as to who would claim the students as their own. The Delhi based institute had forfeited claim of the student since the beginning allowing the Indore based institute to take credit. On the other hand, the Indore institute was apprehensive to accept their achievement as they too were trying to avoid any dispute with the other institute.

Finally, we don't know what transpired between the two institutes, but the AIR 6 finally has a home institute. The Indore institute has now started publicising about Kartik being from their classes. Kartik too has stated that since the past 2 years he has been taking coaching in Indore only.

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JEE Advanced 2016 Results: Maharashtra topper, Preey Shah finds three takers

While two of the coaching institutes; are debating over Preey Shah, who scored 285 marks out of 372 and got AIR 16, he is celebrating his success with friends, and family.

One Kota based and one Delhi based coaching institute first told PaGaLGuY that Preey Shah, AIR 16, belongs to their institute; but they later chickened out. And said not to add their names, nor do they want to associate with Shah's result.

The Delhi based institute said they have a testimony stating that Preey is a student at their coaching. Whereas the Kota based institute said not to drag them into an argument like this.

However, Shah said, "I started preparing for JEE from Class 11 at Pace Junior Science College, Mumbai."

On studying at other institutes than Pace, Shah's mother said, "We don't want to be associated with other institutes, he took coaching from only one institute, Pace."

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JEE Advanced 2016 Results: Servers crashed since 9:50 a.m.

June 12, 2016 the most important day for an IIT aspirant, the day JEE Advanced results were declared. However, aspirants are unable to check their results even after nine hours.
Candidates are losing their patience and are doubting about the fact that IIT Guwahati, the organising institute for Advanced 2016 failed at managing the traffic today. How is it that India's top most technical institute, could not come up with a solution for almost the whole day.

In JEE Advanced Unit's defence, whenever PaGaLGuY spoke to the Chairman, Prof KV Krishna, he said that the traffic is huge, probably much more than they expected. They received up to 10,000 requests per second and were unclogging their servers to make the Candidates portal functional again.

Changes made for the JEE Advacned 2016 results portal in timeline:

- Morning 9:50 a.m., they increased the request per second to facilitate the traffic

- 11 a.m., website crashed and failed to load even a single digit of information

- Noon, even their back-end servers crawl like a tortoise because of the huge traffic

- 2:00 p.m., they try to make the website light by removing extra information from the Candidates login portal

- 3:30 p.m., they try to divert the traffic using IIT Delhi as host server

- 5 p.m., they release three links, but all of them work super slow, login information reduced to JEE Advanced 2016 Registration number and Roll number

- 6 p.m., host servers fail to accept the login information and crash, released four links

- 7 p.m., login information changed to JEE Advanced 2016 Registration number and Date of Birth, and released eight links to manage to the traffic

All of the above changes made to tackle a crowd of about one and half lakh candidates who took the JEE Advanced 2016 on May 22. Let us add two more lakh to it, and say relatives and friends also want to check the results.

To cater to a crowd of not more than say about four- five lakh, the host servers are still crashing.

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Telangana and AP students bags 5 out of 10 top spots in IIT-JEE

Candidates from Telangana and Andhra Pradesh outshined the entire country as five out of top 10 all India ranks were secured by students of Narayana Sri Chaitanya IIT Academy.

Hyderabad continued its top-notch record in IIT Joint Entrance Examination (Advanced) with Jeevithiesh Duggani securing AIR 4, Sai Talluri with AIR 5, G Nikhil Samrat with AIR 7, Praneeth Reddy with AIR 8 and Vighnesh Reddy Konda with AIR 10.

With eyes set on IIT-Bombay, four out of five toppers plan to pursue career into computer science. However, Vighnesh Reddy Konda plans to pursue aeronautical engineering as space sciences fascinates him to the core.

While speaking to Pagalguy, Jeevithiesh Duggani, resident of Vijayawada, shared how the result was totally expected for him. "Having had secured top ranks in other exams such as Eamcet and JEE (Mains), I was absolutely confident that even in JEE (advanced) I would secure top rank," said Duggani.

The IIT-JEE (Mains) all India top ranker Sai Teja Talluri aims to start his own firm after pursuing a career into computer science. "I want to start-up my own company into programming and gaming," said Talluri, who put in nearly seven years of hard work at the Narayana Sri Chaitanya IIT Academy, only to be an IIT-ian one day.

Unlike other toppers who spent hours into studying, it was a cakewalk for Nikhil Samrat who secured AIR 7 in IIT-JEE (Advanced). "I only restricted myself to studying in my institute. After coming home, I never did any kind of additional revision," said a confident Samrat, who wants to be a researcher. "After pursuing engineering into computer science, I want to do research into Physics as I believe there is a lot of scope in that subject," said Samrat.

While other students attributed their success to parents and teachers, Praneeth Reddy said it was regular meditation that helped him concentrate. "I used to perform yoga every alternate day. Regular Suryanamaskaars and Pranayam helped me deal with my stress levels," said Praneeth, who too aims to start-up his own software company in the future.

Taking an all-together different route, Vighnesh Reddy Konda plans to be an astronaut one day. "I aim to land on moon in 2025. I feel extremely fascinated with the constellations. During my free time, I access the Stellarium app which helped me learn a lot about astronomy," said Reddy.

Overall, the two Telugu states have produced 3,965 IIT-ians with 2516 from Telangana and 1449 from Andhra Pradesh this year. 

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Yet another accomplishment for Anand Kumar's 'Super 30', after 28 out its 30 IIT aspirants clear the prestigious JEE Advanced 2016. Super-30 which trains talented bunch of students from economically impoverished sections and hone their skills by providing a conducive environment has once again proved its mettle. 

"I am very happy with the performance of our children. It is their hard work and consistency due to which they have cleared this exam. It gives me immense pleasure to see these children succeed in one of the toughest exams, despite coming from a modest background," said, Anand Kumar, the Director of Super 30.

The successful candidates include the wards of daily-wage laborers, automobile mechanics and vendors. Last year 25 out of 30 students from Super 30 had cleared the JEE Advanced stage. 

"If one has the will, then one can overcome any difficulty in life," adds Anand Kumar.

After their recent initiative to train underprivileged IIT aspirants from Uttar Pradesh, we can now see the Super 30 team expand in the coming year.

PaGaLGuY congratulates all the successful candidates of JEE Advanced 2016.

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Riya Singh (239/372, AIR 133), the JEE Advanced girls' topper from MP has dreams slightly different from her contemporaries. While most IITians look to pursuing an MBA or high paying foreign jobs, our topper aspires to work for the nation. In an interview with PaGaLGuY, Riya spoke about her trials in Kota, how she celebrated her achievement and her future plans. In her own words:

I was in Varanasi on a holiday with my family when the results were announced. It was a good feeling to know that I was the girl topper. We didn't have a huge celebration party. We just went to the Temple and fine dining for celebration.

In terms of preparation, I didn't do anything different or special than what my friends did. Physics was my weak point. I was scared of it, but I knew I had to deal with it whether I liked it or not. I kept practising the difficult topics until I wasn't scared of them anymore. I attended Vibrant classes in Kota for 2 years (11th and 12th) where I dived completely into books and learning. We had about 4-5 hours of coaching daily, and the rest of the day, I spent in self-study. The thing about such coaching is that it compels you to push yourself to your limits. But unlike what a lot of people think, the coaching was a nice kind of pressure. I realise you can't always be stress-free. I knew what it would be like in a coaching environment and it was my choice to go to Kota.

Now that I have got a good rank, I will be applying for Computer Science in either IIT Delhi or IIT Kanpur. I haven't thought much about my future after college, but I would like to get into research or into civil services (IAS)). My choice of colleges also depends on this. IIT Delhi will give me a good background and guidance for civil services, and IIT Kanpur, I believe, has good facility for research.

Apart from that, I am looking forward to enjoy my college life, maybe take part in some extra-curricular activities, as we did not have much time for those in Kota. I am interested in literature and sketching and would like to join a related club in college.

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"Coming to Mumbai was a dream," says Bhavesh Dhhingra, JEE Advanced AIR 2 

PaGaLGuY brings to you excerps from another JEE Advanced topper about his triumphs and travails in JEE, and life ahead 

Bhavesh Dhingra (312/372, AIR 2) from Chandigarh, in his own words...  

I have had only two years of JEE coaching, unlike some of my friends who have been taking coaching for about four-five years. However, earlier in school I used to participate in many Olympiads, the preparation for which helped me build a strong base in science and maths. This is why I had a good control over the basic concepts since school.  

From the day of the results, I have been celebrating my victory every day and the celebrations will continue for the next couple of days as well. It's a big thing to happen, and we've exhausted almost every way to rejoice, like fine dining, drinks, partying, movie nights, etc.. Now, I am looking forward to the counselling session. Beyond that, I haven't thought so much about my future. I don't like to make long term plans. Once I get into a college, I'll think about what to do next. As of now, I just want to spend the next four years in IIT Bombay. Even though I am originally from Delhi, I want to come down to Mumbai, that's a dream. I don't have a great interest in anything specific, but I'll take up whatever activities come my way. I will do as much as I can during the first year - curricular and extra-curricular.

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i got 24878 rank in jee advanced. which college can i hope for through this rank?

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Disability in vision, yet far sighted: Samprit Jambhulkar

For Samprit Jambhulkar just 40% vision didn't stop him from achieving his dreams. With an AIR 1 in the physically disabled (PwD) category of SC, this teenager has set his eyes on IIT Bombay. Here is Samprit's journey to the top rank

"The real issue with my vision disability is that I have to study only during the day. Studying at night is stressful to my eyes. While my friends could spend time studying at night, I would sleep. In class, I would, at times, go close to the board to see what was written. I got notes recorded, but that is hard as well. Difficulty in reading numbers is a problem especially in the reference books, from which my friends would read and discuss. 

When I got to know the results, I was very surprised. I had studied hard but didn't expect to be a topper. Though I expected a rank within 7,000, my common list rank is 15,495 however, I am happy because it is a step closer to my dream - IIT Bombay. I haven't decided if I should pursue Computer Science or Mechanical branch. I have heard both are very good.

I haven't thought so much about what next, but right now I am just excited about getting into an IIT and pursuing my engineering dreams."

 

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Aman Bansal (AIR 1) is the golden boy of JEE Advanced 2016. With a score 312/372, he overcame competition from his friends at Allen Coaching Institute. The Jaipur boy, who is looking forward to moving to Mumbai, had some interesting opinion to share with PaGaLGuY. In his own words...

Unlike many IIT aspirants, I wasn't focused on JEE coaching since school days. In fact, even during class 11 and 12, I only took part-time coaching, which was 3 days a week for 4 hours each in the evenings. The rest of the time was spent studying in a local school and in home study. The general notion that students who take coaching in class 9 and 10 have an upper hand than those who take only 2 years of coaching, is not true. There is a huge gap in what we learn in class 9 and in class 11. _The topics we learn in the later classes have more depth. Even if those topics are taught in class 9, they are usually brushed away quickly without much practice or in-depth learning.

The two years I went for coaching were obviously very stressful. Occasionally we used to hear about student suicides in different coaching institutes. The competition level in these institutes is very high and students are pushed into a race, but such competition motivated me to study harder, unlike those unfateful students who ended their life. My toughest competition in Allen was my batch-mate and AIR 3, Kunal Goyal. But we were and are friends as well. We used to study together and discuss our doubts. There was no bitter rivalry.

Like most other top rankers, I also want to go to IIT Bombay for computer science. Obviously, Kunal will also be in my class. In fact, AIR 9 and 58, who were also my batch-mates in Allen, will be coming to IIT Bombay with me so I am not scared to come to Mumbai or start college. I know I'll be with my friends. Although it's sad that most likely, we won't have a single girl in our class at IIT Bombay, since the girl topper is on AIR 133. Unlike the previous years where there were quite a few girls in the top 50 ranks, this year the results have been unfortunate for them. 

About my future, I am as blank as most students of my age are. But I intend to make a career in the education field. I had an idea to create some software that provides home teaching facilities to students who cannot afford to go to school. Now that the internet has spread in all corners of the country, my software will aim to provide free education to children.

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"Parents supported me even when I fared badly, that was my greatest advantage," Gaurav Didwania AIR 9

PaGaLGuY brings to you excerpts from another JEE Advanced 2016 topper about his triumphs and travails in JEE, and life ahead

Gaurav Didwania in his own words...

"I enrolled for the Allen coaching classes at Jaipur, with the dream to get in to IIT. That's all I knew. I didn't care so much about the branch stream or being in the top ten ranks in the country. My parents enrolled me for coaching classes when I was in standard 9, so I had good start.

My parents never forced me to study, or get good marks. I would particularly fare badly in math, because I wouldn't have time to finish my paper, which is why my marks would go low. But that didn't affect my parents so much. They let me cope up with the studies on my own pace. This was the biggest plus point. The lack of pressure from parents, and the immense support in the company of my friends, helped me. After coaching classes, I would study only for 2-3 hours, unlike other who spent 8-9 hours after the coaching was done.

The feeling of being a topper still hasn't sunk in. I have been super busy with meeting so many people, that I didn't have time for a nice celebration at home.

Ask him if now he has decided on the stream he wishes to choose, and pat came the reply, CSE at IIT Bombay.

That's where all the toppers go, and so will my friends. So it was the obvious choice for me, after the results were declared.

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Students with JEE advanced 2016 AIR spoilt for choice in branch, but not clear in preference

Toppers securing an AIR under 50 have set their eyes on CSE at IIT Bombay, but thousands of others are still confused about their preferred choice. Their aim was to clear the JEE Advanced and get into an IIT, and the choice of stream or a preferred IIT wasn't really a priority. Now that the results have been declared, and the joint seat allocation process is about to be started, students have begun to feel the heat.

It is taken for granted that the toppers will head for CSE at IIT Bombay. Year after year, the top 50 rankers have preferred to pursue this stream, except for a few who chose to study abroad, or at IISc Bengaluru. What is common among the top 10 rankers of this year is that all of them have set their eyes on CSE at IIT Bombay.

However, those with a lower rank have flooded social media with questions about which branch they should choose, and which IIT. "I wanted to pursue CSE at IIT Bombay, I had never thought of a back-up option. Now that my rank is close to 8,500, IIT Bombay is a distant dream, and I have no idea about the other engineering branches, or for that matter, other IITs," says Shrishti Mittal, from Mumbai. She isn't the only one. Given the increase in demand for branch counselling, students from across IITs have started a facebook page, JEE counselling 2016-17 for this purpose. This way the aspirants have a reliable source of information regarding the branches at the IITs.

One of the IITians who is a part of the page, Abhinav S from IIT Kanpur says "We got into the IITs without much of an idea about the branch we had selected, and because of this many of us opted for branch changes in the next year. To avoid such a situation for the juniors who will be joining the IITs, we decide to provide whatever knowledge and experience we have through facebook."

This group has had a huge influx of suggestions from students seeking advice and options from IITians. Students from an IIT that was started only from the 2016, IIT Tirupati, too have created another facebook page exclusively, to help guide aspirants about ground realities at IIT Tirupati.

Most students aimed for an IIT and not for an engineering branch. This approach may have helped them clear the JEE advanced, but it hasn't given them a clear idea about their what their chosen branch is all about.

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Why do JEE rank predictors fail?

Serving a population of approximately 13 lakh aspirants every year, JEE rank predictors have been known to create panic even in the calmest of minds. A couple of ??> after the JEE exam has transpired , coaching institutes are working at rocket speed to release answer keys and rank predictors for aspirants. Most coaching institutes have a rank predictor that claims to predict the All India Rank (AIR) of aspirants. However, year on year, the number of aspirants losing belief in these predictors are increasing. Students have been ranting their displeasure through various social media forums.

The thing about rank predictors is that they are majorly based on previous years' JEE statistics. Abhishek Nayak, an IIT Gandhinagar student, says, "The percentile and weightage system changes every year. Predictors are like reading an old newspaper." Abhishek's rank prediction online was AIR 13000, but when JEE released the ranks, he was on AIR 17000. Along with the weightage and percentile, the number of aspirants taking the exam also changes. Hence, with 3 inconsistent parameters, devising an accurate predictor is not possible. Besides, students are asked to input the marks they expect to get in their exam. It is difficult to be a 100% sure as to what marks the student may score or which answer may or may not be right. Hence, the inputs by students are also based on assumptions.

Deep Shah, a student from IIT Bombay, says, "Two years ago, I had taken the rank prediction test from 2 different sites. One site predicted AIR 3001 and the other predicted AIR 4000. However, my real rank was 5733." There are many other students like Deep who were disheartened to see such a difference in the predicted rank and the real rank.

The figures used in the calculation of ranks is neither accurate nor consistent. Some first year engineering students say that coaching institutes in Kota base their predictors on the marks recorded by students enrolled with them and on statistics received from their competitors' students (those competitors with a higher market share). However, using a small sample to determine all India ranks bring in a lot of room for error. This is also why predictors of different coaching institutes will predict different ranks for the same person.

According to IITians PACE, a JEE coaching institute in Mumbai, rank predictors come with an invisible warning that they should not be completely relied upon. They are only meant to give students a rough idea as to where they stand. But students, on the contrary, have complained that these predictions affect their performance in the coming competitive exams like BITSAT.

Coaching institutes deciding to discontinue to publish rank predictors or trying to perfect their calculation method is doubtful. But the trend line of rank predictor popularity amongst engineering aspirants is only the decline.