NEW DELHI: An industry has sprung up around coaching institutes for IIT+ entrance exams, but students who self study may fare better.

This year 5,539 students (52.4%) out of the 10,576 who got admission to IITs had studied on their own. Those who went to coaching centres comprised 44.5% (4,711) of successful candidates. The remaining 2% either took individual tuition or did correspondence courses.

The trends from this year's JEE (advanced) were analysed by IIT-Guwahati. A detailed analysis of this year's JEE (advanced) shows that IITs are still urban-centric+ with 75% of successful students coming from cities and the rest from rural areas.


It also shows in the occupation of parents. Of the 36,566 who qualified for admission into IITs/NITs/IIITs and other government-funded technical institutions, parents of 10,200 are in government service followed by 5,814 in business, 4,097 in private jobs, 3,213 in agriculture, 2,018 in public sector, 1,700 in teaching/research. Parents of 327 students practiced law, 59 are in the pharmacy sector and only 21 are architects.


Rajasthan, known for its IIT coaching centres in Kota+ , has contributed the maximum 1646 students this year. An IIT director pointed out that Tamil Nadu which once contributed a lot to IITs is surprisingly not among the top 12 states. Students going to CBSE affiliated schools have done the best (5,849).
IIT-Guwahati also did an analysis of educational qualification of parents whose children qualified for joint counselling to IITs/NITs/IIITs and other government funded technical institutes. Little over 1,000 were illiterate, 5,090 matriculate, 14,619 graduate and 8,893 postgraduates. Educational data of over 5,000 parents was not available.