jee exam

OST Bureau

Bhubaneswar/New Delhi, Nov 6:

With Odisha, Gujarat and Maharashtra joining the Joint Entrance Examination (main), the CBSE has announced the dates for the entrance examination that will start from April 6 next year for admission to engineering colleges including National Institutes of Technology (NITs), Indian Institutes of Information Technology (IIITs), other centrally funded technical institutions (CFTIs), institutions under several participating state governments and several other institutions.

This exam is also the preliminary one from which the top 1.5 lakh candidates will be selected to appear for the JEE (advanced), the entrance for the IITs.

While the application process for the JEE (main) 2014 will start from November 15, 2013, the candidates can apply only online via the official website. The application process will come to an end on December 26.

The examination process, which will start from April 6, 2014, will be conducted via offline (pen-paper based) as well as online for the engineering entrance which is Paper 1, while Paper 2, for architecture, will be conducted only on offline mode.

There will be two merit lists of which one will be for 1.5 lakh aspirants who will take the JEE (advance) Paper 1 and 2. There will be an overall merit list based on 60% weightage to JEE (main) score and 40% weightage of normalized class XII Board marks based on which students will be called for counselling and admission to various NITs, IIITs, and CFTIs.

Joint Entrance Examination (main) 2014:

* Online application for JEE (main): November 15, 2013

* Last date for application: December 26, 2013

* JEE (main) paper 1 is for candidates of BE/ B Tech

* JEE (main) paper 2 for candidates of B Arch/ B Planning

* Number of attempts which a candidate can avail at JEE (main) shall be limited to 3

* The merit list for admission to NITs, centrally funded technical institutions and other participating institutions will be based on 40% weightage to school Boards marks in class XII & 60% weightage to JEE (main)

Exam dates:

* Paper 1 (offline - pen-paper based): April 6, 2014 from 9.30 am

* Paper 2 (offline - pen-paper based): April 6, 2014 from 2 pm

* Online (computer based) exam only paper 1 on April 9, 11, 12 & 19

Eligibility: Only those candidates who have passed their class XII exam or any equivalent qualifying examination in 2012 or 2013; or those who are appearing in their class XII exam or any equivalent qualifying examination in 2014.