Joint Entrance Examination –
Main and Joint Entrance Examination – Advanced
The Joint Entrance Examination
(JEE) is an engineering entrance assessment conducted for admission to various
engineering colleges in India. It is constituted by two different examinations:
the JEE Main and the JEE Advanced.
The Joint Seat Allocation Authority
(JoSAA) conducts the joint admission process for a total of 23 Indian Institute
of Technology campuses, 31 National Institute of Technology campuses, 25 Indian
Institute of Information Technology campuses and 19 other Government Funded
Technical Institutes (GFTIs) based on the rank obtained by a student in JEE
Main and JEE Advanced.
There are some institutes, such
as the Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (IISERs), the Indian
Institute of Petroleum and Energy (IIPE), the Rajiv Gandhi Institute of
Petroleum Technology (RGIPT), the Indian Institute of Space Science and
Technology (IIST), and the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), which use the
score obtained in the JEE Advanced examination as the basis for admission.
These institutes do not participate in the post-examination counselling session
(JoSAA). Any student who takes admission to an Indian Institute of Technology
cannot appear for the JEE Advanced examination again, but the same is not the
case with NIT, IISc, IISERs, RGIPT, IIPE, and IIST since they have separate and
exclusive counselling sessions.
JEE Main
Main article: Joint Entrance
Examination – Main
JEE Main is being conducted by
National Testing Agency (NTA). JEE Main has two papers, Paper-I and Paper-II.
Candidates may opt for either or both of them. Both papers contain multiple
choice questions. Paper-I is for admission to B.E./B.Tech courses and is
conducted in a Computer Based Test mode. Paper-II is for admission in B.Arch
and B.Planning courses and will also be conducted in Computer Based Test mode
except for one paper, namely the 'Drawing Test' which shall be conducted in Pen
and Paper mode or offline mode. From January 2020 an additional Paper - III is
being introduced for B.Planning courses separately.
JEE Main, unlike JEE Advanced,
has a fixed exam structure and is not subject to change every year. Up until
2018, the JEE exam paper-1 is of three hours duration and consists of thirty
single choice questions in each of the three subjects (physics, chemistry and
maths). 4 marks are awarded for correct answers and 1 mark is deducted for
incorrect answers. Students taking this exam are usually in the age group
18-20.
A new pattern consisting of 20+5
questions per subject was introduced in January 2020 with 20 single choice
questions + 5 numerical type question by NTA. In single-choice questions 4
marks are awarded for correct answers and no marks are deducted from numerical
type questions.
From 2013 to 2016, the marks
obtained in the class XII school board examination used to be accorded a 40%
weightage in deciding the JEE Main all India ranks.
JEE Advanced
Joint Entrance Examination –
Advanced
JEE Advanced exam is conducted
for entry into 23 IIT's and some other prestigious universities like IISC
Bangalore, IIST Thiruvananthapuram, etc.This exam is conducted by any one of
the IIT's every year. In 2020 the exam was conducted by IIT Delhi. In 2021,
2022, 2023 it shall be conducted by IIT Kharagpur, IIT Bombay and IIT Guwahati
respectively. More than 2 lakh students become eligible to write JEE Advanced
every year. The students who qualify the JEE-Main exam become eligible for the
JEE-Advanced examination. In 2018, 224,000 students were allowed to take the
JEE-Advanced, a number that had gone up from 220,000 in 2017 and 200,000 in
2016.
