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    State Board Students Who Cracked JEE: Board-Wise Performance Analysis

    State Board Students Who Cracked JEE: Board-Wise Performance Analysis

    Manasvini GuptaUpdated on 03 Mar 2025, 04:58 PM IST

    Admission to top engineering colleges such as IITs and NITs is desired by many Science stream students. It is a general notion that only CBSE Board or CISCE board students are more capable of cracking the JEE Exam, but students of various state boards also perform well as per previous year performance.

    This Story also Contains

    1. Top Performing Boards in JEE Mains
    2. Boards with Moderate to Lower Success Rate in JEE Mains
    3. Possible Reasons for Some State Boards which Underformed
    State Board Students Who Cracked JEE: Board-Wise Performance Analysis
    State Board Students Who Cracked JEE: Board-Wise Performance Analysis

    As per a comparative study done in 2018 by IIT Kanpur, in which various state board’s performances were assessed, 55.18% of the students were from CBSE Board followed by the Telangana Board of Intermediate Education with 10.85% and Andhra Pradesh Board of Intermediate Education with 8.34% students who successfully cracked JEE Mains and took admission to esteemed institutions. Let us explore how various state board students fared in the JEE Mains.

    Top Performing Boards in JEE Mains

    • As per the official data of 2018, about 71,403 students who registered for JEE Main exam were from the Central Board of Secondary Education. 6600 were able to successfully crack the exam and get admission.

    • Students from the Maharastra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education also performed well as per the comparative study with 2307 students who qualified JEE Mains exam. 853 students took the final admission.

    • 8981 students who were from the RBSE Board had registered for JEE Mains, out of which 1922 qualified in the exam and 745 took the final admission.

    • Students from the Telangana Board also performed well, securing the second-highest admissions after CBSE with 14,559 students who registered for the exam and 2853 and 1,298 who cracked the exam and took the admission, respectively.

    • Students from the Board of Intermediate Education, Andhra Pradesh, had a good success rate as well at cracking the JEE exam. With 14,017 students who registered for the exam, 2,374 successfully qualified it and 998 students were admitted to various colleges.

    Boards with Moderate to Lower Success Rate in JEE Mains

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    Board-Wise Candidates Performance in JEE Main 2018

    S No.

    Name of the Board

    Registered

    Qualified

    Admitted



    Count

    %

    Count

    %

    Count

    %

    1

    Andhra Pradesh Board of Intermediate Education

    14017

    8.5

    2374

    7.42

    998

    8.34

    2

    Assam Higher Secondary Education Council

    966

    0.59

    100

    0.31

    34

    0.28

    3

    Bihar Intermediate Education Council (Bihar School Examination Board)

    5424

    3.29

    608

    1.9

    208

    1.74

    4

    Central Board of Secondary Education

    71403

    43.32

    17820

    55.71

    6600

    55.18

    5

    Chattisgarh Madhyamik Shiksha Mandal (Chattisgarh Board of Secondary Education)

    896

    0.54

    82

    0.26

    42

    0.35

    6

    Council for The Indian School Certificate Examinations

    4701

    2.85

    1036

    3.24

    327

    2.73

    7

    Goa Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education

    106

    0.06

    29

    0.09

    10

    0.08

    8

    Gujarat Secondary Education Board

    3540

    2.15

    427

    1.33

    121

    1.01

    9

    Board of School Education Haryana (Haryana Board of Education)

    580

    0.35

    64

    0.2

    15

    0.13

    10

    HP Board of School Education

    424

    0.26

    26

    0.08

    8

    0.07

    11

    J and K State Board of School Education

    393

    0.24

    51

    0.16

    15

    0.13

    12

    Jharkhand Academic Council

    710

    0.43

    59

    0.18

    16

    0.13

    13

    Karnataka Board of Pre-University Education

    5361

    3.25

    417

    1.3

    96

    0.8

    14

    Kerala Board of Public Examinations/ Vocational Higher Secondary Education

    2783

    1.69

    161

    0.5

    51

    0.43

    15

    Madhya Pradesh Board of Secondary Education

    3823

    2.32

    469

    1.47

    192

    1.61

    16

    Maharastra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education

    12983

    7.88

    2307

    7.21

    853

    7.13

    17

    Manipur Council of Higher Secondary Education

    77

    0.05

    13

    0.04

    4

    0.03

    18

    Meghalaya Board of Secondary Education

    117

    0.07

    2

    0.01

    1

    0.01

    19

    Mizoram Board of School Education

    33

    0.02

    1

    0

    1

    0.01

    20

    Nagaland Board of School Education

    83

    0.05

    0

    0

    0

    0

    21

    Odisha Council of Higher Secondary Education

    1483

    0.9

    76

    0.24

    17

    0.14

    22

    Punjab School Education Board

    397

    0.24

    50

    0.16

    11

    0.09

    23

    Rajasthan Board of Secondary Education

    8981

    5.45

    1922

    6.01

    745

    6.23

    24

    Tamil Nadu Board of Higher Secondary

    Education

    2870

    1.74

    59

    0.18

    20

    0.17

    25

    Tripura Board of Secondary Education

    71

    0.04

    10

    0.03

    3

    0.03

    26

    U P Board of High School and Intermediate Education

    3787

    2.3

    406

    1.27

    115

    0.96

    27

    Uttaranchal Shiksha Evam Pariksha Parishad

    125

    0.08

    11

    0.03

    4

    0.03

    28

    West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education

    2326

    1.41

    318

    0.99

    80

    0.67

    29

    National Institute of Open Schooling

    264

    0.16

    33

    0.1

    13

    0.11

    30

    Jamia Milia Islamia, New Delhi

    33

    0.02

    3

    0.01

    1

    0.01

    31

    Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh

    201

    0.12

    50

    0.16

    15

    0.13

    32

    Dayalbagh Educational Institute, Agra

    2

    0

    0

    0

    0

    0

    33

    Banasthali Vidyapeeth, Rajasthan

    4

    0

    0

    0

    0

    0

    34

    Vishwa Bharti University, Shantiniketan, Birbhoom, WB

    3

    0

    2

    0.01

    0

    0

    35

    Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies, Hyderabad

    51

    0.03

    1

    0

    1

    0.01

    36

    Haryana Open School, Bhiwani

    24

    0.01

    4

    0.01

    2

    0.02

    37

    Rajasthan State Open School, Jaipur

    13

    0.01

    3

    0.01

    0

    0

    38

    M P State Open School, Bhopal

    3

    0

    3

    0.01

    1

    0.01

    39

    Andhra Pradesh Open School Society

    12

    0.01

    3

    0.01

    0

    0

    40

    Bihar Board of Open Schooling Examination

    65

    0.04

    4

    0.01

    3

    0.03

    41

    Chhattisgarh State Open School

    3

    0

    1

    0

    0

    0

    42

    CBSE I (CBSE International)

    480

    0.29

    65

    0.2

    18

    0.15

    43

    Telangana State Board of Intermediate Education

    14559

    8.83

    2853

    8.92

    1298

    10.85

    44

    Telangana Pradesh Open School Society

    53

    0.03

    13

    0.04

    8

    0.07

    45

    West Bengal Council of Rabindra Open Schooling

    1

    0

    0

    0

    0

    0

    46

    Assam State Open School

    2

    0

    0

    0

    0

    0

    47

    A Level of General Certificate of Education, Cambridge University (IGSE)

    20

    0.01

    1

    0

    0

    0

    48

    International Baccalaureate

    4

    0

    0

    0

    0

    0

    49

    Edexcel, London (UK)

    3

    0

    0

    0

    0

    0

    50

    Polytechnic Diploma/Technical/Vocational Board

    68

    0.04

    2

    0.01

    0

    0

    51

    Others

    462

    0.28

    47

    0.15

    13

    0.11

    52

    No Information

    32

    0.02

    2

    0.01

    1

    0.01


    Total

    164822

    100

    31988

    100

    11961

    100

    Possible Reasons for Some State Boards which Underformed

    Students from some state boards who have lower success rates at cracking the JEE Main competitive exam could be due to the following reasons:

    • There could be a lack of enough resources. The questions asked in the JEE Main exam are based on the concepts included in NCERT Books. Some state boards follow a curriculum which is designed by them and may not include all the topics which are essential for cracking competitive exams like JEE.

    • The CBSE Class 11 syllabus and CBSE Class 12 syllabus are easily accessible online, and state board students can take advantage of the same. The CBSE syllabus aligns well with the JEE Main syllabus. Hence, no matter what books they study for appearing in the board exams of their respective state, they must also study the CBSE syllabus well to increase their chances of nailing the JEE exam.

    • There could be a serious language barrier issue which debars or prevents students from understanding difficult technical concepts in English. Credible and good study resources in the preferred or native language may not be readily available.

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