The category change portal was reopened for 2 days so a lot of students might have moved to the ews category as well. Earlier 37000 students had registered under ews.It might have reached 60000 atleast.

Hi Ishika!

As per the report, the following are the list of numbers category-wise:

General candidates - 4.72 lakhs

OBC candidates - 3.67 lakhs

SC candidates- 0.89 lakh

ST candidates - 0.36 lakh

Registered candidates- 9.65 lakhs,

Males candidates- 6.85 lakhs

Females candidates- 2.8 lakhs

Transgenders candidates- 38

Appeared Candidates - 8,74,469 

I hope I have answered your question.
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Hello,


As per the reports more than 9.65 lakh candidates have enrolled for the JEE Main 2019 exam to be held between January 06 to 20, 2019. As per the sources, the number of registrations received was more than the expectations of NTA.
General candidates - 4.72 lakhs

OBC candidates - 3.67 lakhs

SC candidates- 0.89 lakh

ST candidates - 0.36 lakh

I hope this helps.

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