All India Engineering/Architecture Entrance Examination

The All India Engineering Entrance Examination (AIEEE), was an examination organised by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) in India. Introduced in the year 2002, this national level competitive test is for admission to various under-graduate engineering and architecture courses in institutes accepting the AIEEE score, mainly 30 National Institutes of Technology (NITs) and 5 Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIITs).[1] The examination was generally held on the last Sunday of April and results are announced in the last week of May or the first week of June. Candidates are ranked on an all-India basis and state basis. Thus, they have an All India Rank (AIR) and a State Rank (SR). The examination was replaced by Joint Entrance Examination in April 2013.

Structure

The examination consists of only two papers: Paper 1 for B.E./BTech courses and Paper 2 for BArch courses. A candidate can opt for any or both the papers. Paper 1 has three sections: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry with equal weight for each subject. Each section consists of multiple choice objective-type questions each of which has four choices. Out of the four choices for a given question, only one choice is correct. Paper 1 has a negative-marking scheme wherein an incorrect answer is negatively marked with one fourth of the maximum marks allotted to the question. Paper 2 has three sections: Mathematics, Drawing, and Aptitude. Mathematics, and Aptitude sections have multiple choice objective-type questions and the Drawing section has drawing-based questions. The duration of each paper is three hours. Candidates are not allowed to carry any textual material, calculators, logarithmic tables or electronic devices into the examination hall. The number of questions and their maximum marks have been variable through the years. The questions are based on a syllabus that is common to syllabi of all the state boards in India and the Central Board of Secondary Education. Candidates can opt for question papers either in English or in Hindi language. For admission to BTech or B.E. courses in the participating institutes the candidate is required to take the Paper 1; for admission to BArch or B. Planning courses the candidate is required to take Paper 2. The examination was conducted in offline pen and paper mode till 2010. In 2011, as per the orders of the Ministry of Human Resource Development, CBSE conducted Paper 1 in Computer-Based-Test mode for the first one lakh candidates who opted for the same, while the remaining students took the examination in the conventional pen and paper mode.[2] The number of attempts which a candidate can avail at the examination is limited to three in consecutive years.

In 2010 the Ministry of Human Resource Development announced plans to replace JEE by 2013 with a common entrance test for all government engineering colleges which will be called ISEET.[3][4]

Counselling

Examination Statistics
Year No. of
candidates
registered		 No. of
candidates
appeared		 Examination
centres		 Seats
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The Central Counselling Board coordinates the admissions to the under-graduate courses in the participating institutes. Only small percentage of students taking the test are eligible for central counselling or state-specific or category-specific counselling on basis of their AIR. Counseling for SC/ST candidates and SC/ST physically handicapped candidates is done on the first two days. Then the physically handicapped in the Open (OP) category are counselled.

As declared by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), 50% of the seats in NITs will be filled from AIEEE eligible candidates of states where NITs are located and the remaining 50% will be filled on All India Merit basis. Whereas for IIIT's all of the seats are being filled through All India Merit Basis.[5]

Participating institutes

The number of applicants in AIEEE-2012 were 1.3 million, in 2011– 1.1 million. According to the number of applicants it is the single day largest exam in the world. Institutes participating in the Central Counselling:[1]

2011 incident

In 2011, CBSE postponed the examination by 2.5 hours after Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force found the leaked question paper in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh the night before. Meanwhile alternate set of question papers were sent to the examination centres. CBSE announced the postponement 30 minutes before the scheduled start of the examination.[7][8]

Change in examination

This exam is now being replaced by JEE Main[9] effective from 2013. This JEE (Main) exam shall be conducted by CBSE and all NITs shall take admissions on the basis of JEE Main merit list.

See also

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References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Central Counselling Board (13 July 2011). "List of Participating Institutes" (PDF). Retrieved 7 August 2011.
  2. ↑ The Times of India (22 November 2010). "1L students to take AIEEE online". The Times of India. Retrieved 2011.
  3. ↑ "IIT-JEE likely to be abolished by 2013". sify.com. Retrieved 12 September 2011.
  4. ↑ "ISEET to replace IIT JEE and AIEEE". Retrieved 2012.
  5. ↑ Central Counselling Board (9 June 2011). "CCB Information Brochure 2011". Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 June 2011. Retrieved 15 June 2011.
  6. ↑ http://www.pdpu.ac.in/btech-2012.html
  7. ↑ Central Board of Secondary Education (1 May 2011). "AIEEE-2011 Important Press Release". Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 June 2011. Retrieved 15 June 2011.
  8. ↑ Times of India. "AIEEE question papers leaked, test postponed". The Times of India. Retrieved 15 June 2011.
  9. ↑ http://www.jeemain.nic.in

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