About JEE

The new pattern of JEE aims to create an umbrella through single combined entrance exam for the admission to over 2500 Engineering Colleges (Govt. + Private) in the country. It minimizes over 50 different Engineering Entrance Exams to one. JEE body decided to conduct a Joint Entrance Examination from the year 2013 for admission to the undergraduate programs in Engineering in two phases, i.e. JEE (Main) and JEE (Advanced). The first 2,20,000 candidates (including all categories) based on their performance in JEE (Main) will qualify to appear in JEE (Advanced) examination. Admissions to IITs will be based on category-wise All India Rank (AIR) in JEE (Advanced) subject to conditions that such candidates are in the top 20 percentile categories. Admission to NITs will be based on 40% weightage of the performance in Class XII board marks (normalized) and the remainder 60% weightage would be given to performance in JEE (Main) and a combined All India Rank (AIR) would be decided accordingly. The normalized Qualifying examination marks will be based on the position of the candidate in the Board (i.e. his/her percentile score). The percentile score a candidate gets in his/her board will mainly contribute to his/her normalized marks. The weightage of normalized qualifying examination marks is only for deciding ranking of JEE (Main) which will be used for admission to all Government Funded Technical Institutions (GFTIs)/ NITs/IIITs but excluding IITs.

Eligibiity Criteria

Candidates of GEN and OBC-NCL categories must have completed 17 years at the time of admission and should be an Indian National. The upper age limit for JEE (Advanced) is 25 years for GEN and OBC-NCL categories and this upper age limit shall be relaxed by a period of 5 years for SC, ST and PwD categories. The candidate should be among the top 2,20,000 (including all categories) in Paper-1 of JEE (Main) 2017 for candidate who wish to appear in JEE (Advanced) 2017. The percentages of various categories are: 27% for OBC-NCL, 15% for SC, 7.5% for ST and the remaining 50.5% is OPEN for all. Those appearing in (10+2) final or equivalent examination may also appear in JEE (Main) in the following year provisionally. However, admission criteria in the concerned Institution / University will be followed as prescribed by the concerned University/ Institution and as per the guidelines & criteria prescribed by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE). Maximum number of attempts a candidate can avail at JEE (Main) shall be three and for JEE (Advanced), two uniformly in consecutive years. In addition to JEE score, the qualifying examination is Class-XII from any National/State or ‘Approved’ International Board. For NITS, IIITs or GFTIs, normalized marks of XII board are considered and eligibility is also the same as earlier, which is a minimum 60% mark in PCM in XII board. For IITs & ISM-Dhanbad, the student must be in Top 20 percentile of successful candidates in their Class-XII board or must have secured at least 75% marks in class XII board exam. The aggregate mark for SC, ST and PwD candidates should be at least 70%. Marks of 5 subjects will be considered for calculation of percentile and normalization of qualifying examination marks for paper 1(B.E./B. Tech.): 1-Language, 2-Physics, 3-Mathematics, 4-Any one of (Chemistry, Biology, Biotechnology, Technical Vocational Subject) 5-Any subject other than the above four subjects. For further details of the eligibility criteria for the admission into IITs and ISM-Dhanbad, please visit: www.jeeadv.ac.in

Test Pattern

The admission to the undergraduate programmes at the JEE (Main & Advanced) is based on a two-tier test. The first test is called the JEE (Main) for NITS & IIITs shall be held during the month of April (both offline and online) conducted by CBSE/Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD). The second test, JEE (Advanced) for IITs & ISM-Dhanbad shall be held in the month of May (only offline) which is conducted by the I ITs/ JEE body.

Exam Structure

The JEE (Main) exam consists of two papers; Paper-1 for B.E. / B.Tech & Paper-2 for B. Arch/ B. Planning aspirants. Paper-1 contains a total of 90 Multiple Choice Objective Type Questions with equal weightage to Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics. Each correct answer will be awarded 4 marks whereas each incorrect answer will be awarded 1/4th negative marks. Mode of the test is both offline and online for Paper-1 and only offline for Paper-2. Question papers are provided in both English and Hindi medium.