Nearly four lakh seventy thousand students today appeared in the IIT-Joint Entrance Examination for admission to prestigious 15 IITs, ISM Dhanbad and IT-BHU. <br/><br/>The Organising Chairman of JEE Prof T. S. Natarajan said that the number of candidates has gone up to 4 lakh72 thousand this year against four lakh candidates last year.<br/><br/>The students qualifying the test will be eligible for admission into B.Tech programmes in these institutes offering over 10,000 seats.<br/><br/>About 90,000 candidates from National Capital Region have registered for the test. <br/><br/>The IITs have decided to conduct on-line counseling for general category students this year. This will give relief to students who earlier used to go to different counseling<br/>centres for securing a seat for themselves. <br/><br/>The results will be announced on May 26.<br/>