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NEW DELHI: An industry has sprung up aroundentrance exams, but students who self study may fare better.This year 5,539 students (52.4%) out of the 10,576 who got admission to IITs had studied on their own. Those who went to coaching centres comprised 44.5% (4,711) of successful candidates. The remaining 2% either took individual tuition or did correspondence courses.The trends from this year’s JEE (advanced) were analysed by IIT-Guwahati. A detailed analysis of this year’s JEE (advanced) shows that IITs arewith 75% of successful students coming from cities and the rest from rural areas.It also shows in the occupation of parents. Of the 36,566 who qualified for admission into IITs/NITs/IIITs and other government-funded technical institutions, parents of 10,200 are in government service followed by 5,814 in business, 4,097 in private jobs, 3,213 in agriculture, 2,018 in public sector, 1,700 in teaching/research. Parents of 327 students practiced law, 59 are in the pharmacy sector and only 21 are architects.Rajasthan, known for its, has contributed the maximum 1646 students this year. An IIT director pointed out that Tamil Nadu which once contributed a lot to IITs is surprisingly not among the top 12 states. Students going to CBSE affiliated schools have done the best (5,849).IIT-Guwahati also did an analysis of educational qualification of parents whose children qualified for joint counselling to IITs/NITs/IIITs and other government funded technical institutes. Little over 1,000 were illiterate, 5,090 matriculate, 14,619 graduate and 8,893 postgraduates. Educational data of over 5,000 parents was not available.Analysis also shows thatof 6,929 successful students was up to Rs 1 lakh.