Hello Aspirant,

There is as such no official data for the number of applicants who have given jee mains paper 2 but as per my knowledge and the previous year data the number of candidates would be atleast 50k in the both sessions.

So, the competition in the architecture paper is very less as compared to jee mains paper 1 for B.tech. Some students give both the examination if their drawing skills are good specially . And if they score a good rank they go for B.arch if they are not able to achieve a good rank in B.tech.