10 Lakh Students Appeared in All India Engineering Entrance Test (AIEEE) 2012

Around 10 lakh students on Sunday appeared in the  All India Engineering Entrance Examination (AIEEE) 2012 at 1,735 centres across India.

Another 1,64,000 candidates would take the exam online on 7th May, 2012, 19th May and 26th of May at 221 centres across the country.

The AIEEE 2012, conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education, was a three-hour long examination with four versions of question papers, each having 90 questions.

The exam had 30 multiple choice questions each from physics, chemistry and mathematics for total of 360.

According to Ajay Antony, Vice President at T.I.M.E, a prominent tutorial for entrance examinations, "the level of difficulty for this year's AIEEE was down by as much as 10 percent from last year. The physics section was the toughest this year."

According to Gautam Puri, Vice Chairman and managing director of CL Educate Limited, another tutorial, "Anyone scoring 50 percent marks in the paper should secure an all-India rank in the vicinity of 15,000."

The All India Engineering/ Architecture Entrance Examination (AIEEE) is a common entrance examination conducted by the CBSE on all India basis for admission to professional and technical programmes in the country. This exam is being conducted in accordance with government policies to take care of varying admission standards in these programmes and to help maintain professional standards.

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