The JEE Main Exam pattern remains the same every year. There are two papers Paper 1 and Paper 2. Through paper 1, admissions to B.Tech courses are done whereas through paper 2, admissions to B.Arch courses are done. The equal weightage is being given to all the three subjects viz. Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics in Paper 1. The mode of examination can be either offline or online depending upon your choice. The medium of language for the exam can be either Hindi or English in all centre cities. But in cities belonging to states like Gujarat and Maharashtra medium can be Gujarati and Marathi respectively. To read more about the JEE Main Exam pattern continue reading this article.
Mode of the Examination
The examination is held in both online and offline manner, while form filling you can select the mode of examination according to your convenience. Remember the following points:
- If you wish to appear for the Engineering entrance exam select Paper-1, which is available in both online and offline modes.
- If you wish to appear for the Architecture exam, select Paper-2, which is available only in the offline mode.
- If you are interested in both engineering and architecture examinations you can select both.
JEE Main Examination | Mode of examination |
Paper 1 | Pen and Paper based (Online mode) |
Computer based test (CBT) | |
Paper 2 | Pen and Paper based (Offline mode) |
About JEE Main:
Paper | Subjects | Question Type | Mode of Examination | Duration |
Paper 1 | Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics | Objective Type | Computer based (Online) | 3 hours |
Paper 2 | · Part 1: Mathematics
· Part 2: Aptitude Test · Part 3: Drawing Test |
· Objective Type
· Objective Type · Questions to test drawing aptitude |
Pen and Paper mode only (offline mode) | 3 hours |
JEE Main Exam Pattern :Questions per subject
Paper 1:
- It consists of 75 questions. The maximum marks are 360.
- The examination is divided into 3 sections viz. Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics, having 25 questions each.
Paper 2:
- The examination consists of 3 parts viz. Part 1,Part 2 and Part 3.
- Part 1: It has 30 questions of Mathematics, each awarding 4 marks.
- Part 2: It is an Aptitude test, having 50 questions, each awarding 4 marks.
- Part 3: It consists of 2 questions carrying 70 marks each to be attempted on separate drawing sheets.
Marks allotted to each question are written against each question.
JEE Main previous year question papers
Get previous 3 years question papers and answer keys of JEE Main
Duration of JEE Main exam
Paper 1:
Duration of the JEE Main Paper 1 is 3 hours (180 minutes).
Paper 2:
Duration of the JEE Main Paper 2 is 3 hours (180 minutes).
JEE Main pattern of questions
Paper 1:
All the three sections in Paper 1 viz. Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics will have 20 objective type questions with equal weigtage and 5 Numerical questions with numerical value as answer.
Paper 2:
In Paper 2, Part 1 and Part 2 will have objective type questions and Part 3 will have question to test drawing aptitude.
JEE Main Exam pattern – Number of questions and Marking scheme
Paper 1:
It will have 25 questions for each subject, thus 75 questions.
Paper 2:
- Part 1: It has 30 questions of Mathematics, with 4 marks each.
- Part 2: It is an Aptitude test, having 50 questions, with 4 marks each.
- Part 3: It consists of 2 questions carrying 70 marks each to be attempted on separate drawing sheets.
Marking Scheme
- Objective type questions in JEE Main will have multiple choice questions, having 4 options each and only 1 correct answer.
- For answer with numeric value – 4 Marks will be awarded for every correct answer and 0 Mark will be deducted for every incorrect answer
- 4 marks would be awarded for every correct answer.
- 1/4th mark will be deducted for an incorrect response.
- No marks would be deducted for un-attempted questions.
Choice of Langauage for the exam
You can appear for the JEE Main examination in English, Hindi, other languages (depending upon your exam centre location) and languages made available by the CBSC.
Guidelines for the Candidates
- You must check your JEE Main Admit Card carefully for your Name, Paper, Date of Birth, Gender, Test Centre Name, City, State Code of Eligibility and Category. In case you find any discrepancy, you should immediately communicate to JEE Main 2020 Secretariat for the necessary action.
- JEE Main 2020 Admit Card is issued provisionally subject to your satisfying the eligibility conditions.
- You are not allowed to leave your seat or examination hall until the full duration of the paper, unless you have the special permission of the Centre Superintendent or the Invigilator concerned.
- You must follow the instructions strictly as instructed by the Centre Superintendent/Invigilators.
- You will not be allowed to carry any baggage inside the Examination Centre. JEE Apex Board will not be responsible for any belongings stolen or lost at the premises.
- You are not allowed to carry any textual material, Calculators, Docu Pen, Slide Rules, Log Tables, Electronic Watches with facilities of calculator, printed or written material, bits of papers, mobile phone, pager or any other device, except your Admit Card, identity proof, document as required under point no. 7, inside the Examination Room/Hall. If you are in possession of any of the above items, your candidature will be treated as unfair means and your current examination will be cancelled & you will also be debarred for future examination(s) & the equipment will be seized.
- Smoking and eating is strictly prohibited in the examination hall.
- Tea, coffee, cold drinks or snacks are not allowed to be taken into the examination hall during the examination.
- You should not leave the examination hall without handing over their Answer Sheets to the invigilators on duty.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Now, whether you need coaching or not, depends totally on you, your preparation etc. You can read the following article on “How to crack IIT-JEE” to get an insight. In this article, we are providing you with a number of tips which could be handy during your preparation.
Though it is not impossible to crack IIT-JEE or for that matter any exam on the planet without a coaching class and many people do it, it is recommended to join a coaching class. I say this because, firstly, your knowledge about certain topics is limited and to work on it, you do need an external support which the coaching class provides. Also, you could trust the coaching class with your doubts, which can be immediately addressed. Also, when you have people studying around you, it helps. You tend to acquire skills from different people, which might help you to excel in the exam. But, having said that, if you are confident enough that you can crack the exam on your own, you can surely go ahead with it, but do join a decently good test series, to constantly test your level of preparation.
Joint Entrance Examination Main(JEE Main) is the joint national examination that is conducted every year by Central Board Of Secondary Education (CBSE). Every year, more than 10 lakh candidates appear for this examination and get admission to various NITs, IIITs and other private colleges. It is important to note that JEE Main is the qualifying exam for JEE Advanced. Only those candidates are eligible to register for IIT-JEE advanced who have qualified the JEE Main examination and are among the top 2,20,000 candidates of JEE Main. JEE Main can be given either offline or online. From 2013 to 2016, the marks obtained in the class XII school board examination were given a 40% weightage in deciding the JEE Main All India Ranks(AIRs). But in 2017, the 12th percentage was not accounted to calculate the JEE Main rank. Earlier, counselling for JEE Main was conducted through Central Seat Allocation Board(CSAB) but now officials have made changes in the counselling procedure. The JAB (Joint Admission Board), representing IITs and CSAB (Central Seat Allocation Board) are organizing a common counselling for the two exams of JEE. The joint counselling committee for these exams is known as the Joint Seat Allocation Authority (JoSAA). The admissions to various NITs and IIITs are done through JoSAA counselling.
IIT-JEE Advanced is the second stage examination of JEE (Joint Entrance Examination) through which one can get into various IITs along with some CFTIs – Central Government funded technical institutions like IISc Bangalore and IISERs of the country. Only the candidates who clear JEE Main and secure rank under 2,20,000 are eligible to appear for JEE Advanced.
Through JEE Advanced, IITs offer admissions to various undergraduate courses including Bachelor’s, Integrated Masters or Bachelor‐Master Dual Degree in Engineering, Sciences, Architecture, and Pharmaceutics. There are various courses offered at IITs, some courses such as B.Tech in Computer Science, Mechanical, Electrical are offered in all the institutes while other courses such as B.Tech in Biotechnology, Environment, BS Economics are restricted to few IITs. There are some new courses in Design and Aeronautics being introduced or supplemented in newer IITs such as IIT Gandhinagar and IIT Hyderabad. Also, the admission to various courses is based on the cutoff and number of seats available in an IIT which is different in different IITs. Around 10,572 undergraduate seats are filled every year through JEE Advanced.
To answer this question you can browse through the following points:
- Have a plan and stick to it
- Do not waste time
- Develop a genuine liking for the subjects
- Self-study
- Don’t miss important topics
- Get conceptual clarity
- Focus on problem solving speed
- Practice mocks
- Seek expert guidance
- Be calm Be fresh Be active
To read more you can click on the article “How to crack IIT-JEE Advanced”.
Though IIT-JEE is touted to be one of the toughest exams, every year nearly 20000 hardworking individuals excel at it and make it to the top institutes around the country. It is a competitive exam, thus it is difficult for you it would be difficult for everyone. The only impact will be on the cut-offs which would slide down, for a difficult paper or shoot up for an easier paper. To simple put it, IIT-JEE is difficult but again it DEPENDS!
For registration of JEE Main each and every candidate has to go through the three easy steps given below.
- Visit website and register
- Fill personal and academic details
- Scan and upload images
Read more about the JEE Main form for registration here.
Once a candidate clears JEE Main, they can apply for JEE Advanced. Read more about JEE Advanced registration here.
IIT JEE MAIN 2019 was of easy-moderate level. Many questions were quite straight forward and could be answered by anyone who has prepared well for the exam. But a crucial role was played by some tricky questions which turned out to be the deciding factors. In every paper 5-6 questions were framed differently but there was no ambiguity in any question.
Physics was overall good, and was on the easier side. It barely had any surprise elements which in itself was surprising. Almost all the topics were covered here. Mathematics paper was of moderate level of difficulty. It had a few lengthy question and a few easy questions also. It required conceptual understanding of all the chapters and was nearer to the JEE Advanced paper. Chemistry was of moderate difficulty level. It was equally balanced with questions coming from Physical Chemistry, Inorganic and Organic Chemistry. Here, the questions were again conceptual and only a few were memory based.
There are many reasons to it:
The portion is humongous. The JEE Main Exam pattern is completely unpredictable and the cut-offs can reach heights. The acceptance rate is quite low at the IITs, thus lakhs of people take the exam but barely a few make it.
But a simple answer to this question is that a seat at an IIT gives you quite a rosy future. Top companies battle to hire you and possibly early angel investor is dying to hear your business plan. It’s a staircase to success, to simply put it.
The IIT JEE Main exam would be conducted in April 2020 and IIT JEE Advanced would be conducted in the month of May 2020.
It would be announced in the last week of May 2020.
IIT-JEE was started in the year 1960, back then it had four papers including an English Paper. It was initially called the Common Entrance Exam (CEE) initially. Its creation coincided with that of the 1961 IIT Act.
The syllabus of JEE Main includes all the topics of Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics given in NCERT of Classes 11th and 12th along with some extra topics that are very important from the perspective of other competitive examinations also. Students must note that the overall syllabus for IIT-JEE advanced and JEE Main is more or less same. The key difference is that some topics are not included in JEE Main syllabus but are the part of JEE advanced and vice-versa.
Get the complete and topic wise syllabus of JEE Main here.
Before 2015, the JEE counselling was done through Joint Admission Board(JAB) and Central Seat Allocation Board(CSAB). Admissions to various IITs were made through JAB whereas CSAB is responsible for intake in various NITs, IIITs, and GFTIs. After 2015, MHRD set up Joint Seat Allotment Authority(JoSAA) to manage JEE counselling. The purpose of JoSAA counselling is that admission to 97 institutes (IITs, NITs, and IIITs, CFTIs) should be made through a common platform. JEE Main 2020 counselling and seat allotment is not conducted separately but is collectively conducted through JoSAA 2020 for 31 NITs, 23 IITs and 20 GFTIs, which are the participating institutes of JEE Main 2020. Those candidates who are successfully allotted seats will have to pay the seat acceptance fee and verify their documents at the designated reporting centres. In JEE Main counselling section, we are providing the basic information about JoSAA counselling, some important points to know while filling the registration form for JEE counselling, JEE counselling schedule chart, brief about eligibility, freeze, float, and slide options, withdrawal of seats, brief about all the different rounds (1 to 7), supernumerary seats for Union territories, brief about dual reporting, institutes that participate in the counselling round like IITs, NITs, Private institutes, GFTIs and list of reporting centres.
IIT-JEE Advanced is the second stage examination of JEE (Joint Entrance Examination) through which one can get into various IITs along with some CFTIs – Central Government funded technical institutions like IISc Bangalore and IISERs of the country. Only the candidates who clear JEE Main and secure rank under 2,20,000 are eligible to appear for JEE Advanced.
Through JEE Advanced, IITs offer admissions to various undergraduate courses including Bachelor’s, Integrated Masters or Bachelor‐Master Dual Degree in Engineering, Sciences, Architecture, and Pharmaceutics. There are various courses offered at IITs, some courses such as B.Tech in Computer Science, Mechanical, Electrical are offered in all the institutes while other courses such as B.Tech in Biotechnology, Environment, BS Economics are restricted to few IITs. There are some new courses in Design and Aeronautics being introduced or supplemented in newer IITs such as IIT Gandhinagar and IIT Hyderabad. Also, the admission to various courses is based on the cutoff and number of seats available in an IIT which is different in different IITs. Around 10,572 undergraduate seats are filled every year through JEE Advanced.
Joint Entrance Examination Main(JEE Main) is the joint national examination that is conducted every year by Central Board Of Secondary Education (CBSE). Every year, more than 10 lakh candidates appear for this examination and get admission to various NITs, IIITs and other private colleges. It is important to note that JEE Main is the qualifying exam for JEE Advanced. Only those candidates are eligible to register for IIT-JEE advanced who have qualified the JEE Main examination and are among the top 2,20,000 candidates of JEE Main. JEE Main can be given either offline or online. From 2013 to 2016, the marks obtained in the class XII school board examination were given a 40% weightage in deciding the JEE Main All India Ranks(AIRs). But in 2017, the 12th percentage was not accounted to calculate the JEE Main rank. Earlier, counselling for JEE Main was conducted through Central Seat Allocation Board(CSAB) but now officials have made changes in the counselling procedure. The JAB (Joint Admission Board), representing IITs and CSAB (Central Seat Allocation Board) are organizing a common counselling for the two exams of JEE. The joint counselling committee for these exams is known as the Joint Seat Allocation Authority (JoSAA). The admissions to various NITs and IIITs are done through JoSAA counselling.
IIT-JEE Advanced is the second stage examination of JEE (Joint Entrance Examination) through which one can get into various IITs along with some CFTIs – Central Government funded technical institutions like IISc Bangalore and IISERs of the country. Only the candidates who clear JEE Main and secure rank under 2,20,000 are eligible to appear for JEE Advanced.
Through JEE Advanced, IITs offer admissions to various undergraduate courses including Bachelor’s, Integrated Masters or Bachelor‐Master Dual Degree in Engineering, Sciences, Architecture, and Pharmaceutics. There are various courses offered at IITs, some courses such as B.Tech in Computer Science, Mechanical, Electrical are offered in all the institutes while other courses such as B.Tech in Biotechnology, Environment, BS Economics are restricted to few IITs. There are some new courses in Design and Aeronautics being introduced or supplemented in newer IITs such as IIT Gandhinagar and IIT Hyderabad. Also, the admission to various courses is based on the cutoff and number of seats available in an IIT which is different in different IITs. Around 10,572 undergraduate seats are filled every year through JEE Advanced.
Udaipur’s Kalpit Veerwal topped the IIT JEE Main 2017 and Haryana’s Sarvesh Mehtani topped IIT-JEE Advanced 2017. Read more about JEE Main Topper here.