The number of students taking this examination has increased substantially each year with the JEE-2008 registering about 311,258 candidates. The availability of seats in recent years is as given in table below: [3]
Institute Intake (2003) Intake (2006) Intake (2007) Intake (2008) Intake (2009)
IIT Bombay 554 574 574 648 746
IIT Delhi 552 553 553 626 721
IIT Guwahati 350 365 365 435 498
IIT Kanpur 456 555 541 608 702
IIT Kharagpur 659 895 874 988 1138
IIT Madras 554 520 540 612 713
IIT Roorkee 546 616 746 884 1013
New IITs opened in 2008
IIT Bhubaneshwar 120 120
IIT Gandhinagar 120 120
IIT Hyderabad 120 120
IIT Patna 120 120
IIT Punjab 120 120
IIT Rajasthan 120 120
New IITs opened in 2009
IIT Indore 120
IIT Mandi 120
Total (IITs) 3571 4078 4193 5521 6491
IT-BHU (Varanasi) 568 708 686 766 881
ISMU Dhanbad 444 658 658 705 923
TOTAL 4583 5444 5537 6992 8295
The age limit for appearing in IIT-JEE is 25 years. For candidates belonging to SC, ST and PD categories, the relaxed age limit is 30 years. Also, starting 2007, a candidate can take the JEE two times at the most. This has been done mainly to reduce stress on students and discourage the concept of "cram schools". Furthermore, from 2007 on, students who are selected for admission to an IIT cannot attempt the examination again in the future. From 2008 six new IITs have been opened with 120 seats each increasing the total no.of seats to almost 7000. For 2009, admissions are to be made to two more IITs, namely IIT Indore and IIT Mandi (Himachal Pradesh) taking the seat count to almost 8300.
