June 02, 2024
I have heard contradictory remarks from different sources about how competitive Sri Lankan GCE AL is. Here is a back of the envelope calculation.
Sri Lanka GCE AL, Physical science stream had 35386 candidates [1]. 2238 (6.32%) out of them got selected to Engineering programmes [2] and 895 (2.52%) out of them had merit seats. India had 1,415,110 students taking JEE mains, 186,584 taking JEE advanced and 17740 (1.25%) getting into IIT Engineering programmes [3].