JEE Main 2017: 3563 Navodaya Vidyalaya students crack exam

New Delhi: Breaking stereotypes about the quality government schools, a whopping 3,563 students of the Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas (JNVs) have cleared the prestigious Joint Entrance Exam (JEE-Main) 2017, the government-run school chain said on Tuesday.

JNV commissioner B.K. Singh said that in 2017, some 9,757 of their students sat for the JEE Main of which 3,563 qualified for JEE-Advanced with one student hitting a national rank of 23.

Qualification in JEE Main is a must for a seat in elite engineering colleges including National Institutes of Technology (NITs). For admission to Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), the student needs to clear JEE-Advanced in the two-tier entrance exam.

Singh said the JNV had arranged special classes for some students at a handful of its schools at Kottayam, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Pune, Bundi and Lucknow. Of the 390 students who attended these classes, 381 qualified, a success rate of 98%.

Launched in 1985-86 with two schools under the human resource development ministry, the school chain has now 589 schools across India.