New Delhi: The anxious wait is finally over for thousands of IIT aspirants. The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) have announced the result of the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) 2009 conducted on April 12, 2009 for admission to nearly 6,000 seats in 15 IITs.

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A total of 384,977 students appeared for JEE 2009 for admissions to undergraduate courses in the fifteen IITs, IT-BHU and ISMU Dhanbad.

10035 candidates have been declared qualified to seek admission for 8295 seats in the IITs at Bhubaneswar, Bombay, Delhi, Gandhinagar, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Indore, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Madras, Mandi (H.P.), Patna, Punjab, Rajasthan and Roorkee, IT-BHU Varanasi and ISMU Dhanbad.

The number of candidates who appeared in JEE-2009 is nearly 24% more than that in the previous year.

Nitin Jain (Reg. No. 2076372) who appeared in JEE from IIT Delhi Zone topped this year's All India list of successful candidates.

In 2008, out of 311,258 candidates who wrote the examination, 8652 candidates were declared qualified to seek admission for 6872 seats in IITs at Bombay, Delhi, Guwahati, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Madras and Roorkee, some proposed new IITs, IT-BHU, Varanasi and ISMU Dhanbad.

This year, admissions will also be made to IIT Indore and IIT Himachal Pradesh - each having 120 seats. The counselling of successful candidates will be held from June 9 to 16.

IITs located at Bombay, Delhi, Guwahati, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Madras and Roorkee and IT-BHU, Varanasi and ISMU, Dhanbad will reserve 18 percent of the total seats for OBC candidates this year. The newly setup IITs at Bhubaneshwar, Gandhinagar, Hyderabad, Patna, Punjab and Rajasthan will reserve 27 percent seats for the OBC candidates.

In JEE 2009, the major changes were disappearance of assertion reasoning type of questions, subjective questions were back in the paper, and negative marking in (multiple) choice types. There was a qualitative shift in the kind of questions asked - these did not require a lot of rigorous problem solving, but rather a fairly good understanding of the concepts and the ability to comprehend and analyse.

The paper evoked a mixed response from the students as well. While some termed it as very difficult, others said anyone with clear concepts would not have faced much difficulty.

"The main problem was negative marking and subjective questions that too so many. They were not expected at all. Overall, the paper was very difficult," a JEE-taker said.

But Aditya Bindal, a Class XII student of St.Xaviers School, said he "enjoyed" writing the exam.

"We were prepared for the pattern change. So, tackling it was not much of a difficulty. The questions were concept based. But I was a bit surprised with negative marking," Bindal said.