Seats and Attendance
The number of students taking the examination has increased substantially each year with over 485,000 showing up for IIT-JEE 2011. This represented an increase of 30,000 students (6.5%) from 2010.
The availability of seats in recent years is as shown below:
| Institute | Intake (2003) | Intake (2007) | Intake (2008) | Intake (2009) | Intake (2010) | Intake (2011) | Intake (2012) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IIT (BHU) Varanasi | 568 | 686 | 766 | 881 | 1057 | 1057 | 1057 |
| IIT Bhubaneshwar | 120 | 120 | 120 | 120 | 120 | ||
| IIT Bombay | 600 | 574 | 648 | 746 | 880 | 880 | 880 |
| IIT Delhi | 552 | 553 | 626 | 721 | 851 | 851 | 851 |
| IIT Gandhinagar | 120 | 120 | 120 | 120 | 120 | ||
| IIT Guwahati | 350 | 365 | 435 | 498 | 588 | 615 | 615 |
| IIT Hyderabad | 120 | 120 | 120 | 140 | 140 | ||
| IIT Indore | 120 | 120 | 120 | 120 | |||
| IIT Kanpur | 456 | 541 | 608 | 702 | 827 | 827 | 827 |
| IIT Kharagpur | 659 | 874 | 988 | 1138 | 1341 | 1341 | 1370 |
| IIT Madras | 554 | 540 | 612 | 713 | 838 | 838 | 838 |
| IIT Mandi | 120 | 120 | 120 | 120 | |||
| IIT Patna | 120 | 120 | 120 | 120 | 120 | ||
| IIT Rajasthan | 120 | 120 | 120 | 160 | 160 | ||
| IIT Roorkee | 546 | 746 | 884 | 1013 | 1155 | 1155 | 1155 |
| IIT Ropar | 120 | 120 | 120 | 120 | 120 | ||
| ISM Dhanbad | 444 | 658 | 705 | 923 | 1012 | 1034 | 1034 |
| Total | 4583 | 5537 | 6992 | 8295 | 9509 | 9618 | 9647 |
| Attendance | 455,000 | ~485,000 | 512,000 |
From 2008, six new IITs have been opened with 120 seats each, increasing the total number of seats to almost 7000. For 2009, admissions have been made to two more IITs, namely IIT Indore and IIT Mandi (Himachal Pradesh) taking the seat count to almost 8300. As of 2011, with additional courses in several old and new IITs, the total seat count has crossed 9600.
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—John Lennon (1940–1980)
“We, too, had good attendance once,
Hearers and hearteners of the work;
Aye, horsemen for companions,
Before the merchant and the clerk
Breathed on the world with timid breath.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)