Of the 8,583 students from the state who appeared for the exam in April, 227 qualified, said Kamakoti Veezhinathan, chairman, JEE 2011, IIT-Madras zone. Last year, there were 9,509 seats in all the IITs, while there are 9,618 this year, he said.
All four in the top 100 list are from Chennai. Vipul Venkatraman is the state topper at 63rd position. He is followed by C Yeshwant at 67, N Vaishnavh at 70 and E Dhivya at 96.
"This year's results are better than last year's when there was not a single student from Tamil Nadu in the top 100 list," said K K Anand, who runs the coaching centre at which Vaishnavh and Dhivya studied.
All four attributed their success to specialised coaching. "I was never good at studies," says Venkatraman. The all-India rank holder is a cricket player and had represented Chennai. He is planning to do his B Tech in either computer science or electrical and electronic engineering from IIT-Madras like his schoolmate Yeshwant.
Vaishnavh and Dhivya are all set to join IIT-M and do B Tech degrees in computer science. "The schedule was hectic," said Vaishnavh, who is attending a national-level chemistry olympiad camp at the Tata Institue of Fundamental Research in Mumbai.
For the past two years, after finishing school at 3pm, he would head to his coaching centre to attend special classes from 5pm to 8pm, five days a week. "I expected to get in the top 50. But I am quite happy with this rank," he said.
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