New Delhi, June 2 -- A total of 56,880 candidates have qualified in the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Advanced this year, up 4.6% from last year, with Shubham Kumar from Bihar topping the exam that is required to enter the premier Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs). The qualified candidates will now compete for 18,951 undergraduate engineering (BTech) seats across 23 IITs. This means only about one in three qualified candidates will secure an IIT seat through the Joint Seat Allocation Authority (JoSAA) counselling. According to the results declared by IIT Roorkee, which conducted the test this year, 46,773 of the qualified candidates are men and 10,107 women - the highest number of women to have qualified for the examination. Kumar, ...