Last month, the JEE (Advanced) conducting authorities
released a set of data reports on the final results of the JEE (Advanced) and
its previous avatars, from 2011 onwards. In this set of analysis of these reports,
we will discuss individual elements of the reports and how they are shaping up
for you.

In Part 3, we discuss how and where the top rankers of JEE
(Advanced) went. 4,905 students of the General category were able to join the
IITs/ISM, from the top 10,000 ranks in the JEE (Advanced) Common Rank List
(CRL)

As expected, the majority of the top 100 rankers went to IIT
Bombay – 61 of them, to be exact. Another 30 joined IIT Delhi, 3 went to IIT
Madras, and 1 to IIT Kanpur.

4 more IITs – IIT Kanpur, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Roorkee, and IIT Guwahati – opened their accounts in the CRLs 101-500 range. IIT Bombay & IIT Delhi still took the maximum students from this range – 81 & 80, respectively. This rounds up the list of institutes also known as the ‘older’ IITs.

To round up the top 1000 ranks, IIT (BHU) Varanasi & IIT
Hyderabad entered the fray in addition to the previously listed institutes. Both
institutes are from the ‘new’ crop of IITs, which lists institutes founded/converted
to IIT since 2008 and later.

Note: In all 3 charts,
the ‘NA’ set is of those students whose ranks were within that range but did
not join any IIT. For e.g., in the CRLs 101-500 range, out of a total of 400
students, only 353 students joined an IIT, the 47 students mentioned as ‘NA’ did
not.

What is more interesting is the cluster range of ranks that
each IIT/ISM opened & closed with.

(Please click this link to open the full-sized chart shown above) 

The top 30 students in the JEE (Advanced) all chose to join IIT Bombay, as IIT Delhi’s top joinee was ranked 31. Similarly, the top 60 students in the exam chose to join IIT Bombay or IIT Delhi, as the top joinee for IIT Madras was ranked 61.

Interestingly, while IIT Bombay’s admissions for the General
Category closed at Rank 4564, it was not the lowest rank at which admissions
closed. That honour belongs to IIT Indore, who closed admissions at Rank 4228.

The smallest cluster of ranks (the difference between the
largest and the smallest rank for that institute) belongs to IIT Jodhpur –
their cluster is just 3060 ranks wide. The widest cluster belongs to IIT
Kharagpur, which is 9340 ranks wide.

The number of seats available to the General Category are approx.
49% of the total seats available – 4905 seats were allocated to General Category
students from the total 10,006 available seats. This may explain why IIT
Jodhpur & IIT Indore had such tight clusters – their number of available seats
was lower than the rest of the institutes. IIT Kharagpur had the highest number
of seats available, which explains the extreme width of their cluster: opening at
rank 213 and closing at Rank 9553, which is also the lowest rank at which a
General Category student got into an IIT/ISM.

The situation boils down to this: As long as a General
Category student has a rank better than 10000 in the JEE (Advanced) CRL, they
have a fair chance of being able to join an IIT. However, the situation is
actually tougher – they have only 4900-odd seats to fight for.