Merely 46 girls in top 1,000 JEE Advanced List

Only 46 girls could make into the Top 1000 ranks of the IIT JEE Advanced exam 2018.

However, under the HRD ministry's gender diversity plan, at least 8% more seats (800 in all) will be added to IITs this year to accommodate more girls. That is female candidates are eligible for a seat from the female-only pool as well as the gender-neutral pool of a program

A female candidate will compete for a seat in the gender-neutral pool only if she fails to get a seat from the female-only pool. The seven older IITs will have 3% girls in computer science with the female-only seats.

Data from IIT-Kanpur shows 3,000-odd girls have been shortlisted by the Joint Admission Board from the top 24,500 ranks. Among the top 5,000 students, there are 410 girls, and in the top 10,000 ranks of the common rank list, there are 935 of them. Excluding the girls-only quota, the 23 IITs have 11,279 seats; the number of girls in the top 12,000 are about 1,202.