IIT Kanpur releases extended Merit List; qualifying cutoff also reduced

NEW DELHI, JUNE 14 : IIT Kanpur has released an extended merit list on June 14, following an MHRD guideline. In an unprecedented move, MHRD had earlier instructed IIT Kanpur to release a supplementary merit list for admission to B.Tech courses in IITs. The ministry had also directed that the merit list be published before start of JoSAA counselling, which is scheduled to start on June 15. Students included in the supplementary merit list could participate in JoSAA counselling even though they were not included in the first merit list which was released on June 10.

B.Arch aspirants qualifying as per the new cutoffs, can register for the Architecture Aptitude Test for admissions to IIT Kharagpur and IIT Roorkee. Extended registration facility for AAT close on June 15. The test for these candidates will be held on June 17.

The supplementary list is likely to include 13,842 additional students, which will take the total number of qualified candidates to 31,980. In the first merit list, 18,138 had qualified in the exam.

In addition to releasing the extended or supplementary merit list, IIT Kanpur has also reduced the minimum qualifying marks to accommodate the additional candidates.

Candidates included in First and likely to be included in Supplementary Merit lists

*Please note that figures given for supplementary merit lists are subject to change once official release is out.

The move to release an extended merit list is designed to ensure that the number of qualified candidates is at least twice the number of available seats in the IITs, which stands at 11,279. With only 18,138 candidates qualifying in the first list, the number of candidates in the merit list against available seats stood at 1.6. It thus represented the first time the average number of candidates per seat has fallen below 2 in the last seven years.

Prakash Javadekar, Minister for Human Resource Development, Government of India, tweeting on the subject said, “Responding to requests from students & IIT Community & to proactively ensure that all reservation seats are duly filled, I have directed @IIT Kanpur conducting JEE (Advanced) to make available candidates, strictly as per merit, twice the number of seats in each category...If necessary by releasing a supplementary list.”

Minimum marks required for inclusion in Rank List of JEE Advanced 2018 revised

The minimum subject-wise and combined qualifying marks that candidates need to score to be eligible for admission has also been adjusted. In the revised list, candidates from open category need to score only 90 marks to be included in the rank list, whereas in the old list they needed 126 marks. Like-wise the minimum marks have been revised for all categories and also sub-categories (PwD).

The minimum qualifying marks for both the revised and old rank lists can be checked from the tables below.

Revised Minimum Marks for inclusion in Rank List

Minimum Marks for inclusion in Old Rank List (one released on June 10)