Joint Entrance Examination (Main)

Joint Entrance Examination (Main)
Acronym JEE Main
Type Pen and paper based and Computer based (choice of candidate)
Developer / administrator Central Board of Secondary Education
Knowledge / skills tested Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics in paper 1 and Mathematics, Drawing and Aptitude in Paper 2
Purpose Admission to undergraduate Engineering and architecture courses in 31 NITs, 20 IIITs and other colleges. Also serves as a prelim selection for JEE Advanced
Year started 2002 (2002)
Duration 3 hours for each paper
Score / grade range -90 to +360 in Paper 1
Offered Once a year
Restrictions on attempts Maximum two attempts in successive years
Countries / regions India
Languages English and Hindi
Website www.jeemain.nic.in
As per 2017 information bulletin[1]

The Joint Entrance Examination (Main), formerly All India Engineering Entrance Examination (AIEEE), is an examination organised by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) in India.[2] Introduced in the year 2002, this national level competitive test is for admission to various undergraduate engineering and architecture courses in institutes accepting the AIEEE score, mainly 31 National Institutes of Technology (NITs) and 20 Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIITs).[3]

The examination, originally called sometimes AIEEE, was renamed as Joint Entrance Examination (Main) in April 2013. The AIEEE was generally held on the last Sunday of April and results were announced in the last week of May or the first week of June. Post the rename, the exam is held in the first week of April. Candidates are ranked on an all-India basis and on state basis. Thus, they get an All India Rank (AIR) and a State Rank (SR).

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. Candidates attempting Paper 1 can select one of the two modes of writing the test. 1) Pen & paper 2) Online. Paper 1 has three subject sections: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry. Each one of the 3 subject sections consists of 30 questions each with equal weightage for every question. All questions 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. Every correct answer will receive 4 marks each and every incorrectly attempted question will receive a negative marking of -1 mark. There is no negative marking applied if the question is left unanswered. 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.[4] 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.[5][6] Accordingly MHRD proposes to set up National Testing Service, which will be an autonomous and self sustained agency to conduct this new common entrance test.

Counselling

Logo of the Central Counselling Board

For the academic session 2017-18, around 12 lakh candidates appeared in JEE Main 2017. The number of participating institutes of JEE Main also witnessed an increase with addition of 3 new IIITs and 2 GFTIs.

23 Indian Institutes of Information Technology (IIITs)

31 National Institutes of Technology (NITS)

23 Indian Institute of Technology (IITs)

20 Government Funded Technical Institutes (GFTIs)

Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology(IIEST), Shibpur

Several other Institutes spread across the country 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.[7]

Participating institutes

The number of applicants in AIEEE 2012 was about 1.2 million, in 2011 it was about 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:[3]

Several other Institutes like DTU, NSIT, PEC, Thapar University, IIIT Hyderabad etc. also admits students through their own counselling, based on AIEEE ranks.

2011 incident

In 2011, CBSE postponed the examination by 2.5 hours after Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force found the Satendra yadav of class 8 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.[8][9]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Joint Entrance Examination(Main) - 2017 - I N F O R M A T I O N B U L L E T I N" (PDF). JEE (Main) Secretariat - Central Board of Secondary Education. 10 November 2016. Retrieved 27 April 2017.
  2. ↑ "Official Website". jeemain.nic.in. Retrieved 2017-01-21.
  3. 1 2 Central Counselling Board (13 July 2011). "List of Participating Institutes" (PDF). Retrieved 7 August 2011.
  4. ↑ The Times of India (22 November 2010). "1L students to take AIEEE online". The Times of India.
  5. ↑ "IIT-JEE likely to be abolished by 2013". sify.com. Retrieved 12 September 2011.
  6. ↑ "ISEET to replace IIT JEE and AIEEE".
  7. ↑ Central Counselling Board (9 June 2011). "CCB Information Brochure 2011" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 16 June 2011. Retrieved 15 June 2011.
  8. ↑ Central Board of Secondary Education (1 May 2011). "AIEEE-2011 Important Press Release" (PDF). LETTER.pdf Archived Check |archiveurl= value (help) (PDF) from the original on 16 June 2011. Retrieved 15 June 2011.
  9. ↑ Times of India. "AIEEE question papers leaked, test postponed". The Times of India. Retrieved 15 June 2011.

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