The document contains answers to frequently asked questions about the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) process for admission to top engineering colleges in India. It explains that JEE is conducted in two parts - JEE Main and JEE Advanced. JEE Main is used to determine eligibility for JEE Advanced and also contributes to ranking for some colleges. JEE Advanced is the sole criterion for admission to IITs and other top institutions. It provides details on exam pattern, attempts allowed, reservations and the role of class 12 board exams in the selection process.

1. JEE
FAQs

2. Q. Which are the top engineering
colleges in INDIA? Is there any ranking
system for them?
The ranking of engineering colleges
changes every year but, the top institutes
with stable ranking are IITs (Indian
institute of technology), NITs (National
institute of technology),
BITS- Pilani etc.

3. Q. How to get admission in top engineering
colleges?
Top engineering colleges may classified in two parts
1.Government engineering colleges like IIT’s, NIT’s
and other state/centre Government funded
colleges.
To get admission in these colleges aspirants has to
clear JEE.
2.Private engineering colleges like BITS- pilani etc. In
order to get admission in these colleges aspirant
has to clear JEE or the entrance test conducted by
that institute.

4. Q. What is JEE?
JEE stands for Joint
Entrance Examination and
it will held in two parts JEE
(Main) and then JEE
(Advanced).

5. Q. What is JEE (Main)?
Previously it was called AIEEE
(All india engineering entrance
examination), now we call it
JEE (Main). It will be conducted
by Joint Apex Board located at
CBSE Delhi.

6. Q. What is JEE (Advanced)?
Previously it was called IIT-JEE now
we call it as JEE (Advanced). It will
be jointly conducted by IIT
Bombay, IIT Delhi, IIT Guwahati, IIT
Kanpur, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Madras
and IIT Roorkee or we can say by the
zonal IITs.

7. Q. How to get admission in top engineering
colleges except IITs and ISM Dhanbad?
Aspirants fate to get admission in these
colleges is decided by his/her performance in
JEE (Main) and Board results.
60% weight age will be given to JEE (Main)
and 40% to the respective boards.
The rank list of successful candidates including
JEE (Main) and board performance will be
declared in first week of July.

8. Q. How to get admission in IITs and ISM Dhanbad?
An aspirant who want to take admission in IITs and ISM
Dhanbad, has to clear following hurdles
1. He/she has to qualify JEE (Main) and has to obtain rank
under 1,50,000 (Including all categories), here remember
NO WEIGHTAGE will be given to BOARD marks.
2. He/ She has to qualify JEE (Advanced).
3. Admission to these institutes will be based only on
Category wise All India Rank (AIR), subject to the
condition that such candidates have to be in top 20
percentile in their respective boards. THERE IS NO
ROLE OF BOARD MARKS ONLY ASPIRANT HAS TO
BE IN TOP 20 PERCENTILE.

9. Q. How 1,50,000 Candidates are distributed across
different categories?
As you know that no THERE IS NO ROLE of board marks
while selecting these candidates only performance in JEE
(Main) will be the single criterion.
The category wise distribution of candidates will be as
follows:
 Top 75750 (50.5 %) Common Merit List
 Top 40500 (27%) Other Backward Classes Non creamy
layer OBC (NCL)
 Top 22500 (15 %) Scheduled Caste (SC)
Top 11250 (7.5 %) Scheduled Tribe (ST)
3% of the total candidates in each category are reserved for
PD candidates as per norms.

10. Q. Is Marks obtained in JEE (Main) and
Board play any role for preparing AIR of
JEE (Advanced)?
NO, no weight age of JEE (Main) or Board
will be given while Preparing rank for JEE
(Advanced), but it is mandatory for an
aspirant to be in top 1,50,000 in JEE
(Main) to attempt JEE (Advanced) and to
be in top 20 percentile of his/her respective
board.

11. Q. How many attempts are there
for taking JEE (Mains)?
The maximum Number of attempts an
aspirant can avail shall be Three in
consecutive years.
For an example if you appearing in XII
Board- 2014 then you can avail three
consecutive attempts i.e. 2014, 2015 and
2016.

12. Q. How many attempts are there
for taking JEE (Advanced)?
The maximum Number of attempts
an aspirant can avail shall be Two in
consecutive years.
For an example if you appearing in
XII Board- 2014 then, you can avail
two consecutive attempts i.e. 2014
and 2015.

13. Q. Is there any relaxation in
maximum number of attempts for
reserved category student?
No

14. Q. Is there any reservation in
IITs, NITs, CFTIs, SFTIs?
Yes, as per Government of india rules
candidates belonging to OBC in non
creamy layer, Schedule castes
(SC), Schedule Tribes (ST), Person
with Disability (PwD) are admitted to
seats reserved for them based on
relaxed criteria.

15. Q. What is the role of Class XII Board in admission to
top engineering colleges?
Board plays important role to get admission in top
engineering colleges in the following way:
1. To get admission in top engineering colleges except IITs
and ISM Dhanbad, 40% weightage will be given to board
marks while preparing final rank list of JEE (Main).
2. To get admission in IITs and ISM Dhanbad, candidate
has to be in top 20 percentile of his/her respective
board, but board marks will not be included in preparing
rank list of JEE (Advanced) i.e. AIR of JEE (Advanced)
will be prepared only on the basis of aspirants
performance in JEE (Advanced).
.

16. Q. What will be the language/medium for
JEE?
JEE (Main): The question paper will be in
English or Hindi medium. Aspirant has option
to opt, according to his/her convenience.
For some state it may be in regional language
for example in Gujarat, question paper will also
be Gujarati.
JEE (Advanced) : The question paper will be in
English or Hindi only, there will be no option for
regional languages.

17. Q. What will be the type of
JEE paper?
It will be of objective nature for
both JEE (Main) and JEE
(Advanced).

18. Q. What will be process to take
admission in B.ARCH/B.PLANNING in
institutes other than IITS?
For this aspirant has to take paper-2 of
JEE (Main), in paper-2 there will be
question from Mathematics, Aptitude and
drawing. This paper is only pen and paper
based, no online option will be available
for this.

19. Q. What will be process to take
admission in B.ARCH/B.PLANNING in
IITs?
For this aspirant first have to qualify JEE
(Advanced), only after that he/she can apply
for aptitude test for B.ARCH and it will be
held after one week of announcement of
JEE (Advanced) result, However the seat
allotment will be done based on the
category wise all India Rank in the JEE
(Advanced) -2013.

20. Q. What will be the mode to take
JEE?
JEE (Main) : Aspirant can opt for
online or offline as per his/her
convenience.
JEE (Advanced): Only offline mode is
available till now.

21. Q. When the score of JEE (Main) will be
declared? and how do I know I will be able
to take JEE (Advanced)?
The score of JEE (Main) will be declared by
first week of May, this score includes actual
marks obtained by you in JEE (Main) along
with information whether you are eligible for
JEE (Advanced) or not. Please note to
become eligible to take JEE (Advanced)
board marks have no role.

22. Q. When results of JEE will be announced?
JEE (Main): First result will be out on first week of May, this will
contain marks obtained in JEE (Main) and eligibility for JEE
(Advanced).
Final rank list of JEE (Main) will be announced in first week of
July, this will be prepared by giving 60% weigthage to JEE
(Main) and 40% weight age to Class-XII performance.
JEE (Advanced): The result of JEE (Advanced) will be
announced on 3rd or 4th week of June, on the basis of
performance in JEE (Advanced) only, but aspirant has to be in
top 20 percentile of his/her respective board. There is no role
of JEE (Main) or Board marks in preparation of rank list of JEE
(Advanced).

23. Q. From where I will be remain updated for
JEE?
For this you can use websites
For JEE (Mains) : http://jeemain.nic.in
For JEE (Advanced) : http://jeeadv.iitd.ac.in/
OR
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