Patna, June 6: Students from Bihar have performed poorly in the All India Engineering Entrance Examination (AIEEE) this year, the result has revealed.

The AIEEE results were declared on Sunday and the students, who had appeared for the entrance examination, found their performance had deteriorated from that of examinees last year.

Majority of the students have secured low ranks and are now left with two options — either to reappear for the examination next year or rely on results of other entrance examinations.

Around 11 lakh students took this year’s AIEEE from all over the country. Several students from Bihar found to their dismay that they had not secured the ranks they had expected. Students, who thought they would rank between 20,000 and 25,000, found they had ranked above 40,000.

Sources said around 54,000 students took the AIEEE from Bihar. Last year, the Bihar figure stood at around 40,000. While last year, around 9,000 students from Bihar had secured ranks up to 25,000, this year only around 7,000 students managed to secure ranks up to 25,000.

This year, the cut-off mark for general category students to clear AIEEE is 48. For OBC, it is 45, for Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes 18 and physically challenged people it is 18.

Many students attributed the low ranks to the rise in the number of AIEEE examinees from last year.

An AIEEE examinee, on condition of anonymity, said: “My friends and I compared this year’s results with students who made it through AIEEE in the past two years. Unlike us, the past examinees had secured much better ranks. We had also expected good ranks this year but it did not happen.”

Hussain Abbas, a student of International School in Patna, said: “I had not prepared well for this year’s AIEEE but still I have got much poor rank than what I had expected. My friends are also faced with the same situation. We are now depending on the results of the state engineering examinations.”

Abbas, however, has cleared the entrance examination for admission at UP Technical University and plans to get admitted there. He too believes this year’s poor rank is because of the reason that more students had appeared for the AIEEE.