Joint Entrance

Examination

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 Institutes
of Technology (IITs), 31 National Institutes
of Technology (NITs), 25 Indian Institutes
of Information Technology (IIITs)
campuses and other Government Funded
Technical Institutes (GFTIs) based on the
rank obtained by a student in JEE-Main or
JEE-Advanced, depending on the
engineering college.[1]

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,[2][3] but are not a part of the
Joint Seat Allocation Authority (JoSAA)
counselling process. 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.

JEE-Main
JEE-Main is 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 onwards,
an additional Paper-III is being introduced
for B.Planning courses separately.[4]
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020,
JEE-Main 2021 has a change in paper
format and number of attempts. Now
there will be 20 single choice questions
and 10 numerical questions out of which
only five numerical questions are to be
attempted. The marking scheme is same
as earlier i.e. for SCQs, +4 marks for
correct answer and -1 marks for incorrect
answer and 0 marks for not answered, and
for numerical type questions, +4 marks for
correct and -1 marks for incorrect.[5][6]

JEE-Main, unlike JEE-Advanced, has a

fixed exam structure and is not subject to
change every year. Up until 2018, the JEE-
Main Paper-I 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 questions by
NTA. In single-choice questions 4 marks
are awarded for correct answers and no
marks are deducted from numerical type
questions.[7]

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.[8][9]

JEE-Advanced
JEE-Advanced is conducted for entry into
23 IIT's and some other equally prestigious
universities like IISC Bangalore, IIST
Thiruvananthapuram, Indian Institute of
Petroleum and Energy (IIPE), Indian
Institute of Science Education and
Research (IISERs), Rajiv Gandhi Institute of
Petroleum Technology (RGIPT). 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, and 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 top 250,000
students of JEE Main qualify to appear for
the JEE-Advanced examination. In 2018,
224,000 students were appeared to take
the JEE-Advanced,[10] a number that had
gone up from 220,000 in 2017 and 200,000
in 2016.[11]

History
The JEE pattern has undergone many
changes. Since 2012 candidates are given
paper copies of their answers, and cutoffs
are announced.[12] This transparency was
achieved after a tenacious legal tussle
waged by IIT Kharagpur professor Rajeev
Kumar,[13] who was nominated for the
National RTI Award 2010 for his
crusade.[14] Since 2013–14, JEE has
changed a lot and recently adopted new
online admissions and application
selection procedures which were not
available in recent years.

In 2012, the government-run Central Board

of Secondary Education (CBSE) that earlier
conducted the AIEEE, announced the JEE
that replaced the AIEEE and IIT-JEE. The
JEE-Main, which replaces AIEEE, is for
admission to the National Institutes of
Technology (NITs), Indian Institutes of
Information Technology (IIITs), and some
other colleges designated as "centrally
funded technical institutes" (CFTIs). The
JEE-Advanced, which replaces IIT-JEE, is
only for admission to the Indian Institutes
of Technology (IITs). Only the students
selected in JEE-Main are eligible for
appearing in JEE-Advanced. About 224,000
students will be selected from 2018.
In September 2013, the IIT Council
approved the decision of the Joint
Admission Board to continue with the two-
phase JEE pattern ("Main" followed by
"Advanced") for IITs in 2014. Followed by
the exams, JoSAA conducts the joint
admission process for a total of 23 IITs, 31
NITs, 25 IIITs and other Government
Funded Technical Institutes (GFTIs).[15][16]

See also
Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering
(GATE)
SAT Reasoning Test
ACT (test)
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External links
 JEE-Main official website (https://jeemai
n.nta.nic.in/webinfo/public/home.aspx)
JEE-Advanced official website (https://je
eadv.ac.in/)
JOSAA official website (https://josaa.ni
c.in/)

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