Admission Based on JEE Main

Can you tell me in detail about the Admission Based on JEE Main as I wan tto take admission in it?

[Arun Vats]

Admission criteria to Undergraduate Engineering Programs at NITs, IIITs, other Centrally funded Technical Institutions, Institutions funded by participating State Governments, and other Institutions includes the performance in the class 12/equivalent qualifying Examination and in the Joint Entrance Examination, JEE (Main).

The Paper-1 (B. E./B. Tech.) of JEE (Main) is also be an eligibility test for the JEE (Advanced), which the student has to take if one is aspiring for admission to the undergraduate programmes offered by the IITs.


Eligibility for Admission to NITs, IIITs and Other Institutions participating through Central Counselling Board

Admission to NITs, IIITs and other institutions participating though Central Counselling
Board will be based on All India Rank along with the criteria of subject combinations mentioned below:

B.E/B.TECH
Subjects in Qualifying Examination: Physics, Mathematics and one of the subjects from (Chemistry, Bio-technology, Computer Science, Biology) along with 50% marks in total including all subjects

B.ARCH/B. PLANNING
Mathematics subject along with 50% Marks in total including all subjects

Eligibility for Admission to Other Institutions
The above mentioned policy could also be adopted by other Centrally Funded Technical Institutions (CFTIs) and participating Institutions. In case a State opts to admit candidates in the engineering Colleges affiliated to state Universities, the State may prepare separate rank list based on criteria decided by them.

Reservation of seats
As per Government of India rules students belonging to certain categories are admitted to seats reserved for them based on relaxed criteria. These categories are:

I. Other Backward Classes (OBC) if they belong to Non Creamy Layer (NCL)
II. Scheduled Castes (SC)
III. Scheduled Tribes (ST)
IV. Persons with Disability (PwD)