All India Institute of Medical Sciences announced the result for its MBBS-2017 intake to six AIIMS late on June 14.
For the first time in its history, AIIMS, New Delhi will be admitting 100 students from this session.
Examination were held on 28 May for 700 seats of AIIMS, New Delhi and six other AIIMS at Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Jodhpur, Patna, Raipur and Rishikesh (100 seats each), as per an official release issued by AIIMS authorities on Thursday morning.
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The entire examination was held as a computer based test (online) mode. The examination was conducted in a total of 537 centers, 167 cities of country spread over 29 States and 3 Union Territories of India from Srinagar to Kanyakumari and from Port Blair and Imphal to Gandhinagar.
The examination was held for the first time in Leh and Port Blair. The Entrance Examination was conducted in two languages (Hindi and English) and candidates had the option of viewing questions in either language.
Out of a total of 3,64,242 eligible candidates, 2,84,737 candidates appeared in the examination. Female candidates outnumbered male candidates (1,50,793 female, 1,33,933 male and 11 third gender candidates).
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A total of 4905 candidates have qualified in this examination (1828 female and 2077 male candidates) and are eligible for counselling session for admission in AIIMS. However, in the first round of counselling only 4 times the number of the seats available in each category will be called. More candidates may be called for subsequent rounds of counselling depending upon the availability of the seats. The detailed schedule of counselling sessions will be regularly published in the website www.aiimsexams.org .
The top 100 candidates include those who have appeared in the examination in 47 cities spread over 22 States/Union territories reflecting the all India character of AIIMS.