Bhubaneswar, April 27: Students of city schools and coaching institutions were in a celebratory mood after the results of JEE (Main) were announced today.

Of the total 10.2 lakh aspirants, around 2.20 lakh students have qualified for the JEE Advanced exam to be held on May 21. According to sources, around 3,500 students from the state have qualified for the exam from the state.

Around 151 students from DAV Public School, Chandrashekharpur, qualified for the JEE (Advanced), supposedly the highest for any individual school.

At Mother's Public School, around 128 students have qualified for the advanced stage.

Students from various private coaching centres in the city fared well. "A number of girls have done well from our institute," said the owner of a private tutorial based in Saheed Nagar.

Officials of a private coaching centre, which conducts coaching classes for IIT aspirants, said the number of girl students who had cracked the test was fewer than boys. "This could be because girls usually prefer to go for medical and avoid engineering. The number of girls enrolling for coaching is generally less as compare to boys," he said.

Around 45,000 students from the state appeared for the written examination conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE).

"Only the candidates who qualified JEE Main will be allowed to appear for JEE Advanced and there were no weightage for Class XII marks in calculating the ranks in JEE (Main) this year," said chairman of the Odisha Joint Entrance Examination (OJEE) Tushar Kant Nath.

In the all-India level, Kalpit Veerval, hailing from Udaipur in Rajasthan, has topped the JEE-Main with a perfect 100 per cent score.