Result of NEST 08 for NISER out
The site http://www.tifr.res.in/~nest/Results.html lists the roll numbers of students with a percentile of more than 50. There are about 4000 such students. (So total number of students that appeared this exam is 8000.) The site http://www.tifr.res.in/~nest/NISER-int.html list the 330 or so students who have been called for interview. In this list of 330 or so there are 47 from the Orissa centers. Out of these 47, two of them are among the top 8 that have a perecntile more than 99.9. Those two are (i) 1523056 Soumyashanta Nayak with 99.93 percentile and (ii) 1513038 Aditya Acharya with 99.92 percentile.
After the interview NISER will admit 40 students. So 4% of the students who appeared the entrance are called for interview and 0.5% (one out of 200) of the students who appeared the entrance will be selected.
47 of the 330 candidates called for interview are from Orissa centers. I.e., a percentage of about 14%.
May 21st, 2008