VIJAYAWADA: Over 96,000 students from the State appeared in the JEE Mains 2017 offline examination on Sunday. The qualifying students can appear for JEE advanced examinations to be held next month.
The State has four examination centres — Vijayawada, Guntur, Tirupati and Visakhapatnam.
Apart from this offline examination, over 17,000 have opted for JEE Mains online examinations, which will be held on April 8 and 9. The paper- I of JEE Mains exam was conducted from 9:30 am to 12:30 pm while Paper II was conducted from 2 pm to 5 pm.
While paper-I was conducted for the admission into BE/BTech courses in various engineering courses, paper-II was conducted for admission into B-Arch courses. All the questions were objective type with equal weightage to physics, chemistry and mathematics (Class XI and Class XII syllabus).
In 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, the cut-off was 113,115,105,100 respectively. However, the cut-off will be finalised by CBSE authorities by the end of April 2017, before the commencement of JEE Advanced exams. From this year, there shall be no weightage for the 12th class marks in the JEE Mains exams.