Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) that include Mains and Advanced a gateway for admission to the finest engineering institutions of India.
Gouri J S
Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) is
one of the key and prestigious entrance examinations in the country which
provides a gateway for admission to the finest engineering institutions of
India. It is constituted by two different examinations: JEE Mains and JEE
Advanced.
JEE Main
This exam is conducted by the
National Testing Agency (NTA). It offers Two main papers: Paper 1 and Paper 2.
A candidate may opt for either or both of them. Joint Seat Allocation
Authority (JoSAA) conducts the admission procedure to the prestigious
institutions of the country which consists of the 31 National Institute of
Technology (NITs), 25 Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIITs), and
28 Government Funded Technical Institutes (GFTIs) based on the ranks obtained
by the candidate in JEE Mains. For admission to the IITs, a candidate must
appear and qualify the JEE Advanced examination.
Exam Pattern
JEE Main has two papers: Paper I and
Paper II of which a candidate may opt for either or both of them.
Paper I is
meant for admission to B.E/B.Tech courses while Paper II is for admission to B.Arch. and B.Planning courses. Both contain multiple choice questions and are
conducted in online mode except for the ‘Drawing Test’ which is conducted in
offline mode. Total marks for the exam is 300 (100 marks for each section). In
January 2020, a notable change has been made in the pattern. According to this,
there are 20 single choice questions and 5 Numerical questions each from
Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics of which % Numerical questions has to be
attempted.
Marking scheme
For SCQs: +4 marks for correct
answer, -1 for incorrect answer and 0 for not attempted.
For NQ: +4 marks for correct answer, 0 for
incorrect answer.
Admission Procedure
The counselling is conducted by the
Joint Seat allocation Authority (JoSAA), based on the results of JEE Main. For
this, a candidate must follow the following steps.
Register for
Counselling: The candidate must register
themselves on the official website of JoSAA. Students must
provide and verify the necessary details before submitting the registration.
Submission of
choices: On completing the registration,
candidates should fill their choice of courses and institutions. The students
are allowed to select as many choices as they wish.
Mock Allotment:
Two mock allotments which make students aware of their chances of getting
admitted based on their preferences. Candidates may change their preferences in
this stage.
Final Seat Allotment:
- A total of seven rounds of seat allotment is conducted by JoSAA.
- The allotment is done on the basis of merit, category preference of the candidate and the available number of seats.
- After a seat has been allotted, a candidate will have 3 options:
- FREEZE: Candidate is satisfied with the allotted seat and does not wish to participate in future rounds of counselling.
- FLOAT: candidate is satisfied with the seat but like to participate in further counselling for admission to other institutions.
- SLIDE: candidate has accepted the allotted seat but is also eligible to apply for admission to a higher preferred course in the same institution.
After accepting the allotted seat, candidates shall report to the respective institute for document
verification. Seat acceptance fee
has to be paid through e-challan or SBI Net Banking.
Participating Institutions
JEE Main participating Institutes
consists of the 31 NITs, 25 IIITs, and 28 GFTIs.
NITs are the premier autonomous
public technical universities under Govt. of India. They offer around 23, 500
undergraduate seats in all the NITs put together.
IIITs are a group of 28
Interdisciplinary Technical Universities of higher education in India focused
on Information Technology. They offer around 4,000 seats in various
undergraduate programmes.
GFTIs are a list of 28 Technical
institutes funded by the Govt. of India. Here, admissions are based on marks
obtained in JEE Mains. They have around 5,650 seats across various institutions
in the country.
JEE Advanced
JEE Advanced is conducted for
providing admissions to the 23 Indian Institute of Technology (IITs) and other
prestigious institutions of the country like the IISC Bangalore, IIST Trivandrum etc.. The students must qualify JEE Mains in order to be eligible for
JEE Advanced.
Every year, approximately 2 lakh
candidates become eligible for JEE Advanced. The exam is conducted every year
by any one of the IITs. In 2021, the exam was conducted by IIT Kharagpur and it
will be conducted by IIT Bombay and IIT Guwahati in 2022 and 2023 respectively.
Scope and college prediction
This year students with 87.8992241 percentile qualified for JEE Advanced under general or unreserved category which is lower than a 90.3765335 in 2020.
Top NITs of the country include:
- NIT Rourkela
- NIT Surathkal (Karnataka)
- NIT Warangal
- NIT Durgapur
- NIT Calicut
- NIT Allahabad
- NIT Kurukshetra
- NIT Trichy
- NIT Jaipur
In order to secure admission to any of
these top NITs, a good score of 93-97 percentile is required and at the same
time, candidates must feature among the top 15,000-20,000 rank.
Latest trends shows that the most sought- after course is Computer Science engineering for which a candidate must secure a rank of at least 4000 to ensure seat in a top NIT.
This is followed by other branches like Electronics and Communication Engineering for which a rank of approximately 7000 and below may fetch you a good seat.
Electrical and Electronics
engineering and Mechanical Engineering are other popular choices and a candidate is
expected to score a rank below 15,000 for the same.
For Civil engineering rank below 20,000 has more likely chance.
Therefore, a candidate falling below
10,000 ranks may expect their selected courses in preffered institutions.
IIITs on the other hand may provide
admissions to candidates even up to the rank of 50,000. (All categories).
Popular IIITs which include IIIT Kota, IIIT Vadodara, IIIT Jabalpur, IIIT
Lucknow, IIIT Kurnool etc. are expected to offer admission to candidates up to a
rank of 25,000.
Least popular NITs and IIITs are expected to have a closing ranks up to 50,000 or above based on the previous year’s analysis.