JEE Advanced 2017: Only 14% Qualifiers are Girls, Gender Gap Still Wide
- Continuing the trend, boys have dominated the top ranks of JEE Advanced 2017 examination.
- Only 14% of girls cleared the national level engineering entrance examination.
- Out of 33,358 girls, only 7,137 have cleared the JEE Advanced 2017 examination.
Continuing the trend, boys have dominated the top ranks of JEE Advanced 2017 examination. On the other hand, only 14% of girls cleared the national level engineering entrance examination this year. The results of JEE Advanced 2017 examination were out on June 11, 2017. Among girls, Ramya Narayanasamy from Hyderabad emerged as the topper. She bagged AIR 35.
Let’s have a look at the top three rankers of JEE Advanced 2017 examination: -
| Name | Location | AIR |
| Sarvesh Mehtani | Panchkula | 1 |
| Akshat Chug | Pune | 2 |
| Ananye Agarwal | Delhi | 3 |
JEE Advanced 2017: Top Rankers (Girls): -
| Name | Place | AIR |
| Ramya Narayanasamy | Hyderabad | 35 |
| Shafil Maheen | Talakkad (Kerala) | Not Available (South Zone Topper) |
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As usual, the gender-gap in various campuses of IIT remains as wide as ever. This year, only 33,358 girls registered out of the total 1.38 lakh candidates for the JEE Advanced 2017 examination. The number of boys who appeared for JEE Advanced 2017 examination was three times more than the number of girls. Out of the 33,358 girls, only 7,137 have qualified in the examination.
JEE Advanced 2017: Number of Qualified Candidates - Zone-Wise: -
| Zone | Number of Students Qualified |
| IIT Madras | 10,240 |
| IIT Bombay | 9,893 |
| IIT Delhi | 9,207 |
| IIT Kanpur | 6,809 |
| IIT Kharagpur | 6,138 |
| IIT Roorkee | 5,050 |
| IIT Guwahati | 3,118 |
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Zone-Wise Top 10 Ranks: -
| Name of the Zone | Number of Top 10 Rankers |
| IIT Roorkee | 3 |
| IIT Delhi | 3 |
| IIT Bombay | 2 |
| IIT Madras | 1 |
| IIT Kanpur | 1 |
| Total | 10 |
The South Zone recorded the highest number of candidates in top 100 ranks. A total number of 29 students from South Zone bagged ranks in the top 100.