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.
Note:
i) Candidates must visit the website of various CFTIs for applications date and eligibility criteria.
ii) National University of Singapore (NUS) accepts JEE Main/ Advanced score for bachelor’s programs intake.
Understanding the Exam
JEE Advanced is one of the toughest exams on the planet. In order to crack JEE Advanced, the student is required to have a clear understanding of the syllabus and a strategy to go through that syllabus in 2 years. The JEE Advanced exam paper questions are based on XI-XII grade Physics, Mathematics, and Chemistry syllabus. These simple concepts are mixed in one single question to make a multi-chapter/concept based questions, thus making them a bit difficult to solve in given time frame for students. These questions are solvable if a student is exposed to similar questions which require some algebraic/mathematical manipulation and practices a lot of questions over the span of two years.
Prepare for IIT-JEE 2020
Even if you start in April you need to cover 1 chapter per week for the JEE.
The syllabus of JEE Advanced is pretty vast and lengthy. It includes all the chapters covered in XI and XII class Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics NCERT textbooks. Also, IIT-JEE syllabus keeps on changing slightly every year with some addition or subtraction of topics. So aspirants must keep an eye on the previous years and present year syllabus for better planning and good preparation. You can find detailed IIT-JEE Advanced syllabus here.
The examination pattern of JEE Advanced more or less remains the same, with slight formatting in the way the questions are asked. For instance, an extra column was introduced in Matrix Match type question in JEE Advanced 2017 Paper. The pattern of questions which have been asked in the last 5 years includes MCQs with more than one correct answer or only one correct answer, Matrix Match, Single Integer Answer questions with no options.
The JEE Advanced exam consists of 2 papers conducted on a single day. Both the papers are available in two languages viz., Hindi and English. Both the papers include 3 sections with equal weightage:
The marks distribution of JEE Advanced 2020 subject-wise is given below:
S.No. | Subjests | Total Marks |
1 | Paper 1 & 2 | 366 (183 in each paper) |
2 | Total marks in Physics | 122 (61 each in Paper-1 and Paper-2) |
3 | Total marks in Chemistry | 122 (61 each in Paper-1 and Paper-2) |
4 | Total marks in Mathematics | 122 (61 each in Paper-1 and Paper-2) |
Talking of the JEE Advanced, the paper not only judges your comprehension skills but also your theoretical concepts and reasoning abilities.
There are plenty of books and practice material available for JEE. Though there is no end to what all books you can use during your preparation, NCERT for all three subjects i.e. Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics and H.C. Verma for Physics are a must. The notes given at coaching are very useful as the syllabus is vast and these notes make it easy to understand. J.D. Lee for Inorganic Chemistry, Solomon for Organic Chemistry, S.L. Loney for Trigonometry etc. are some of the most preferred reference books for JEE. Also, ensure that you have a priority list in which you should solve these books. For instance, it is must that you solve all the problems given in H.C. Verma before you start solving Irodov. You need to make sure that you are dedicating sufficient time to all the subjects and not engaged in mastering one subject at the cost of other subjects. You can get a complete list of best books for IIT JEE here.
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The most awaited results for IIT-JEE Advanced 2019 were released on June 11, 2019. Sarvesh Mehtani of Chandigarh topped the JEE Advanced 2019 with a score of 339 out of 366. Akshat Chug from Maharashtra secured the second position. The cutoff for the year 2019 witnessed a considerable rise compared to the cut-off of JEE Advanced 2018. A considerable rise was witnessed in IIT -JEE Advanced 2019 cut-off marks(128 marks) as compared to 2018’s cutoff marks(75 marks). The cutoffs marks are different for different categories, lowest for PWD. A candidate has to clear the sectional cut-offs (subject cut-offs) along with the aggregate cut-off after which he/she will be considered for admission into various IITs. Check the complete cut-off of JEE Advanced 2019.
Also, check the complete list of top 10 rankers in IIT-JEE Advance 2019, their marks and their success stories. Read the complete interview of Sarvesh Mehtani here.
IIT-JEE Advanced 2019 has witnessed an increase in the number of students qualified for IIT-JEE Advanced as compared to 2018. While 2,20,000 students were eligible to take the JEE Advanced exam, only 1,72,024 students took the exam, out of which 50,045 students qualified IIT-JEE Advanced and were allotted ranks. Though only 10,545 students were allotted a seat at IITs, 421 seats remained vacant after the 5th round of counselling. To know more read the complete article on IIT-JEE Advanced Result Analysis 2019.
At Avanti, our students have been reaching new heights every year in the JEE results. 219 out of 610 students selected in JEE Mains while 37 students got selected in JEE Advanced. Ayush Singhal, a boy from a Guna(Madhya Pradesh) got AIR 475 in JEE Main while AIR 1415 in JEE Advanced followed by Swapnil Audichya who got AIR 2593 in JEE Advanced and Rushikesh Patil who got an AIR of 3458 in JEE Advanced.
The results for the prestigious IIT-JEE Advanced 2018 were released on June 12, 2018. Aman Bansal of Jaipur bagged AIR-1 in the Joint Entrance Examination(Advanced) 2018 followed by Bhavesh Dhingra[AIR-2] a boy from Yamuna Nagar and Jaipur boy Kunal Goyal[AIR-3] respectively. In 2018, IIT Guwahati conducted on JEE Advanced 2018 on May 22. In 2018, 155948 candidates registered for the exam. Check the list of top 10 students for the previous year.
IIT- JEE Advanced cut-off for 2019 was 128 marks for General, 115 marks for OBC and 64 marks for SC/ST. There is a sectional cut-off for each section- Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics which is required to be cleared by the student to be eligible for admission in IIT, failing which student can be denied admission even if he/she clears the overall cut-off. The subject wise cut-off is decided by the organising committee of JEE Advanced based on different factors like the number of applicants, difficulty levels of the exam paper etc. Check the Cutoff for JEE Advanced 2019, sectional cutoff of 2019 Physics, Mathematics, Chemistry.
Based on previous year IIT-JEE Advanced branch wise cut-off(opening and closing rank for each branch), students can get an idea about the IITs they wish to target. Check JEE Advanced Cutoff 2019 for different IITs
The popularity of a particular branch increases its branch cut off. Factors like placement, future scope, number of government job openings increase the popularity of a particular branch. Branches like Computer Science, IT, Electrical and Civil engineering are among the most popular branches in IITs. You can find the branch-wise cutoffs(opening and closing rank) of different IITs, NITs, IIITs and GFTIs here.
JEE Advanced registrations open in the month of May, after the Mains result is announced. Admit cards are issued within a week of registration and are required to be downloaded within 10 days of release. Below are the exact date timetable followed in the year 2020. To know more about the registration process and important dates, click here:
S.No. | Events | Dates |
1. | Online Registration (open) | 1 May, 2020 |
2. | Online Registration (closed) | 6 May, 2020 |
3. | Last date of Fee submission | 7 May, 2020 |
4. | Admin card released | 12 May, 2020 |
5. | JEE Advanced 2020 Entrance Exam: Paper 1 Paper 2 |
17 May, 2020 9 AM to 12 Noon 2 PM to 5 PM |
6. | (a) Online Display of ORS and scanned responses of JEE Advanced 2020 (b) Request for Review of Scanned Responses |
Fourth week of May 2020 (Tentative) |
7. | JEE Advanced 2020 display of answer keys | First week of June 2020 (Tentative) |
8. | Candidates feedback on JEE Advanced 2020 answer keys | First week of June 2020 (Tentative) |
9. | Announcement of JEE Advanced 2020 Result | Second week of June 2020 (Tentative) |
10. | Registration for Architecture Aptitude Test 2020 | Second week of June 2020 (Tentative) |
11. | Architecture Aptitude Test 2020 | Second week of June 2020 (Tentative) |
12. | Announcement of Architecture Aptitude Test Result 2020 | Third week of June 2020 (Tentative) |
13. | Seat allotment through JoSAA | Third week of June 2020 (Tentative) |
In 2019, IIT- Kanpur facilitated the release of the JEE Advanced – Admit Card for the candidates who applied for JEE Advanced 2019. The admit card is issued once the candidate registers and pays the registration fee after which he/she can download the admit card for JEE Advanced 2019. The admit cards are to be downloaded within 10 days after release.
The admit card has to be downloaded, printed and kept safely for future purposes. JEE Advanced admit card contains some important details of the candidates like – Name, Roll Number for JEE Advanced 2017, Photograph, Signature, Date of Birth, Address for Correspondence, Category and Language of the question paper. The admit card will contain the name and the address of the examination centre allotted to the candidate. Since admit cards for 2020 aren’t available yet, for more information on admit card, important dates, steps to download the JEE advance 2019 admit card, how to download JEE advance admit card if you forgot the registration number, what to do if admit card is unavailable, please visit JEE Advance Admit Card 2019.
Eligibility criteria for JEE Advanced 2019
There is a certain eligibility criterion decided by the organizing committee for IIT-JEE aspirants. The eligibility criteria are subjected to change every year so candidates are advised to check the eligibility for JEE Advanced before filling up the registration form. If any candidate does not meet the following criteria then his registration would not be accepted. So carefully read the JEE Advanced 2019 eligibility criterion given below.
- Applicants should have passed class 12th examination from a recognized board/university with a minimum of 75% marks (for General) and 65%(for SC/ST/OBC/PWD) or the candidates must be within the category-wise top 20 percentile of successful candidates in their respective class 12th or equivalent board exam.
- Applicant should be among the top 2,20,000 candidates of JEE Mains 2019.
As shown in the following table, the usual order will be followed while choosing top 2,20,000 candidates in various categories who have scored positive marks in JEE (Main) 2019.
Order | Category | Number of “Top” Candidates | Total |
1 | OPEN | 1,07,767 | 1,11,100 |
2 | OPEN-PWD | 3,333 | |
3 | OBC-NCL | 57,618 | 59,400 |
4 | OBC-NCL-PWD | 1,782 | |
5 | SC | 32,010 | 33,000 |
6 | SC-PWD | 990 | |
7 | ST | 16,005 | 16,500 |
8 | ST-PWD | 495 |
- Applicant should not have appeared for JEE advanced exam before 2017.
- Applicant should not have accepted admission at any IIT earlier.
- The applicant must have born on or after October 1, 1992 (for general) and October 1, 1987( for SC/ST/PWD)
- Candidate must have passed the 12th class in either 2018 or 2019. However, the candidates whose result of 2016-17 was declared after June 2017 are eligible to JEE advanced.
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Each and every candidate has to fill three exam centres from the list of centres issued by the IIT which is conducting the IIT JEE Advanced exam. IIT Madras has released a list of zone-wise exam centres. Candidates should fill the centres which are closer to them. Mostly the exam centres allotted to the candidates are from their top two preferences but if the number of students is more at any particular centre then third preference is given to the candidate. It is also advised to visit the exam centre at least one day before the exam. Check the list of IIT JEE Advanced exam centres here.
JEE counselling 2019 & Seat allotment has been done through the online portal and is managed by JoSAA for admissions in IITs, NITs, IIITs and GFTIs.
Before 2015 the JEE counselling was done through JAB and CSAB. Admissions to various IITs were made through Joint Admission Board (JAB) whereas Central Seat Allocation Board (CSAB) is responsible for intake in various NITs, IIITs, and GFTIs. After 2015, JoSAA was set up by MHRD to manage the JEE counselling. The purpose of JoSAA counselling is to facilitate admission to 97 institutes (IITs, NITs and IIITs, CFTIs) through one common platform.
Admission to all the academic programs offered by these Institutes will be made through JoSAA counselling. There are some important points to remember for admission through JEE Main/JEE advanced 2019 like choice filling-in, dual reporting at the centres, how to withdraw the admissions, DOs and DON’Ts. To know more visit the following link.
Seat allotment matrix, also known as seat allocation matrix is the matrix that contains the complete data about the number of seats allotted to a particular institute. It also shows the category wise seat distribution among the different branches. Note that the seats are allotted to the deserving candidates according to their ranks. The allocation of the seats is based on the following factors – category of the candidate like general or reserved, position of the candidate in the rank or merit list, choices filled in the sequence of preferences given and seat availability in different categories. Every year, JoSAA declare the seat allotment matrix of 119 institutes that includes all IITs NITs and ISM. IITs have total 10,572 seats in total. Different IITs have the different number of seats allocated for admission. IIT Kharagpur has the maximum number of seats allotted counting to 1341 followed by IIT BHU with a total number of 1090 seats. Similarly, NITs also have a different number of seats. The total number of seats sum up to 17,390 in all the NITs. The highest number of seats have been allocated to NIT Raipur followed by MANIT Bhopal with 937 seats and NIT Rourkela with 900 seats.
There is a JoSAA seat allotment matrix for the Indian Institute of Technology, Indian School of Mines, National Institutes of Technology and Indian Institute of Information Technology.
Among the total seats allocated to a particular NIT or IIT, seats are distributed category wise like General, OBC seats, SC/ST/PwD seats.
To check the seat matrix click here.
JoSAA counselling 2019 is done through an online portal. Participating institutes include 23 IITs, 31 NITs, 20 IIITs and 20 GFTIs. JEE qualifying candidates can get admission to any one of these colleges. Candidates should know about the participating institutions and their respective last year cutoffs while filling up their choices. You can find the list of participating institutes.
Important facts: Best Performing states of India in IIT- JEE Advanced 2019
Every year, more than 10000 students get admission into various IITs of the country. Students from various states are preparing to get admission in these elite institutions and make their state proud. In 2017, the IIT- Madras zone performed the best with 10,240 students qualifying JEE Advanced followed by IIT-Bombay zone with 9,893 students qualifying JEE Advanced.
The registration for the IIT-JEE Advanced starts as soon as the results of JEE main are out. In 2019, the registration for IIT-JEE advanced 2019 started from April 28 and was done through an online portal. The last date of form filling for IIT-JEE advanced 2019 was May 2. Only those candidates were eligible to apply who cleared the JEE-Main and were in top 2,20,000 candidates of JEE main. Candidates were also allowed to apply after May 2 with a late registration fee till May 4. Candidates had to follow the following steps to complete their registration: register, fill the details, upload the documents specified and pay the application fees. The mode of payment of application fee can be online or offline. To prevent the candidates from filling up the wrong details, we are explaining the stepwise procedure of filling up the IIT-JEE advanced application form. We are also providing you with the list of documents which have to be scanned and uploaded for the completion of IIT-JEE Advanced registration. Candidates need to remember certain important dates for the future events in the process of IIT-JEE Advanced 2019 admissions. You can check those important dates for IIT-JEE Advanced 2019. Read the complete article on how to fill the IIT-JEE advanced application form 2019 here.
Rank Predictors are the tools through which students can predict their rank after calculating their marks from JEE Advanced answer key. This will be helpful for JEE aspirants in getting an approximate idea of the ranks thereby knowing the college in which they may get admissions.
In the following section, JEE Advanced Question 2016, JEE Advanced question 2015 and JEE Advanced question 2014 with the official JEE Advanced answer key 2016, JEE Advanced answer key 2015, JEE Advanced answer key 2014 and their respective solutions are provided. The basic idea of providing these previous years IIT JEE Advanced question paper with a solution is to prepare candidates properly for the competition and to give them an idea about the pattern of the JEE Advanced exam and have a strong grasp on the learning concepts on which IIT JEE questions are based. JEE Advanced Solved Papers would help the student to practice mock papers for JEE Advanced and gain confidence.
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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 question paper 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 2017 counselling and seat allotment is not conducted separately but is collectively conducted through JoSAA 2017 for 31 NITs, 23 IITs and 20 GFTIs, which are the participating institutes of JEE Main 2017. 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.