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More state Board students from Telangana and AP succeed at JEE
Across India CBSE students dominate the JEE (Advanced) results, with 53% of the total candidates belonging to the central board. This trend is reversed only in Telangana and AP, where a majority of the qualified candidates hailing from the state board.
Like all other states CBSE and ICSE students rule the roost when it comes to Intermediate exams in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, but it is the state board students who bag top honours in the Joint Entrance Examination JEE (Advanced) entrance exams.
Overall across India, Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) students dominate the JEE (Advanced) results, with 53% of the total candidates having studies the central board syllabus. However, this trend is noticeably reversed only in 2 states, where a majority of the qualified candidates hailing from the state board.
According to official student data from IIT Madras and IIT Bombay, a total of 3,734 students from the 2 states qualified for the JEE (Advanced). Of these, 3,600 or a whopping 96% were state-board candidates – 2,293 from Telangana and 1,307 from Andhra Pradesh. Only a meagre 130 candidates were from CBSE schools and only 4 from the Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (ICSE) syllabus.
Together, Telangana students added up to 7.7% of the total candidates who qualified for the premier institutes while AP contributed 6.4%.
Experts explain this trend by the early exposure of state board students to IIT coaching. "In Telangana and AP, several state board students start studying for IIT-JEE from class VI. After class X, many students from the districts shift to Hyderabad to seek special coaching to crack IIT," said Ananda Raman, director of FIITJEE in Hyderabad.
Another theory which is believed is CBSE and ICSE schools focus more on the Intermediate exam than JEE. "Students from CBSE and ICSE schools concentrate more on the Intermediate exam. Compared to state board students, they start preparations for the competitive exam a little late. In Kendriya Vidyalayas and Navodayas, many are not even exposed to IIT coaching. Therefore, the success rate of students from CBSE and ICSE board in IIT-JEE is comparatively low," opined ANS Sankar Rao, lecturer at Narayana IIT Academy
However the figures are exactly opposite in the IIT-Madras zone where Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala had higher number of JEE qualified candidates from the CBSE and ICSE boards. From the CBSE, the highest number of candidates were from Tamil Nadu (555), followed by Kerala (358) and Karnataka (309). From the ICSE board, the highest number of candidates came from Kerala with 48, followed by Tamil Nadu with 10 and Karnataka with 9.
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