2 Extra Seats In IIT-M For Students Topping In Olympiads

New Delhi: Indian Institute Technology (IIT), Madras will create two supernumerary seats in each undergraduate course for students who have excelled in national and international olympiads, Director V Kamakoti announced on Monday.

The seats will be offered from 2025-26 academic session and one of the seats will be exclusively for girls. Olympiads are competitive examinations that assess and challenge students in various academic subjects and skills.

According to Kamakoti, called "Science Olympiad Excellence" (ScOpE), the admissions under the category will be outside the JEE (Advanced) Framework with the students to be admitted from the academic year 2025-2026.

"Similar to admissions through Sports Excellence Admissions and Fine Arts and Culture Excellence modes, ScOpE will also have two supernumerary seats per programme of which one seat will be exclusively for women students. The eligibility criteria such as the passing of Class 12 and age, among other criteria, remain exactly the same as that of JEE (Advanced) for the respective year. The candidate also should not have been admitted to an IIT in the previous years," he said.