Coaching institutes in Patna. Telegraph picture

Patna, May 24: Around 30,000 students will be keeping their fingers crossed tonight, as the results of IIT-JEE 2011, held on April 11, will be declared as per schedule tomorrow.

Over 30,000 students have appeared for the IIT-JEE this year from Patna. With just hours left for the results, tension has gripped the aspirants already.

Inder Mishra, a student of Super 30s run by IPS officer Abhayanand, said: “Today, I won’t be able to sleep the entire night because of tension. However, I am confident of cracking the examination but the results will come only on Wednesday. The paper was good except the mathematics, which was lengthy.

IIT-Kanpur, the nodal agency conducting the examinations this year, has declared that all candidates will get full marks for two questions in the mathematics paper in which errors were reported.

Back in Patna, Wednesday will be the D-day not only for the 30,000 students but also for the various coaching institutes running JEE preparatory classes for the IIT aspirants. In Patna, battle-lines have been drawn between two top-notch coaching institutes, the Super 30 of Anand Kumar and Abhayanand’s Super 30s with both the groups being questioned to declare their list of students who had appeared for the examination this year. IPS officer Abhayanand and mathematician Anand Kumar, who jointly founded the Super 30 in 2003 producing large number of IITians every year since its inception, parted ways in 2008.

Under the banner of Centre for Social Responsibility & Leadership (CSRL) Abhayanand’s six projects are being run. The CSRL runs six Super 30 centres which include Utkarsh Superb 60 at Kanpur, Utkarsh Superb 30 in New Delhi, Utkarsh Superb 30 at Guwahati, Rehmani Super 30 in Patna, Triveni Super 30 in Patna and Magadh Super 30 in Gaya.

The meritorious students for Super 30 are chosen from the underprivileged class and they are provided coaching along with free lodging and food facilities.

Abhayanand while talking to The Telegraph said: “This year we have released the list of 91 students whom we have chosen for the IIT entrance.” Moreover, this year after pressure from various agencies, mathematician Anand Kumar has also declared his list of 30 students, whom he had chosen for the JEE.

Prior to this year, Anand had never released his list as there were serious doubts about his claim of his students making cent per cent success in JEE examination.

Anand told The Telegraph: “This year, I have released the list of 30 students who had appeared for JEE.” Both Anand and Abhayanand have claimed of providing free coaching to students belonging from economically underprivileged class.

Meanwhile, teachers who are into IIT coaching claims that this year the cut-off marks could be increased up to 210 to 215 out of 480 marks. Last year, the cut off was 190 while in 2009 the cut off was 178.

Rohit Srivastava, a teacher with a city-based coaching institute, said: “The mathematics paper was easy and those students who had prepared well have a fair chance of cracking the test. The physics paper was confusing and lengthy while the chemistry paper was similar to the previous year.”