JEE Main Eligibility criteria has been decided by NTA. From this year every candidate has to give his/her Aadhaar number issued by UIDAI and the rest of the criterion are more or less same every year. So candidates are advised to go through the JEE Main Eligibility criteria conditions before applying for JEE Main 2020.
Updated JEE Main Eligibility criteria
JEE Main Eligibility Updated rule is that every candidate has to provide his/her aadhaar number issued by UIDAI for their authentication and identity proof. Candidates who haven’t enrolled for aadhaar yet have to apply for their aadhaar. Such applicant may visit any Aadhaar enrolment facilitation centres set up in JEE Main exam cities.
JEE Main Eligibility – Age Criteria
For appearing in the JEE (Main) examination there is no age limit for the candidates. The candidates who have passed XII examination in 2017, 2018 or appearing in 2019 irrespective of their age can appear in JEE (Main) Examination – 2020. The candidates should satisfy themselves about the eligibility of age limit requirements of the Institutes in which he/she is desirous of taking admission.
JEE Main Eligibility- Qualification Criteria
- There is no prescribed percentage to appear in the examination. Candidates having passing marks can also apply.
- Only for admission to NITs, IIITs and CFTIs, candidates should secure minimum 75% marks (65% for SC/ST students) in the qualifying examination or must be in top 20 percentile in class 12th examination conducted by respective boards.
JEE Main Eligibility – Subject Combination Criteria
- It is mandatory for aspiring candidates to have taken 5 subjects in 12th or qualifying exam
- The 5 subjects for B.Tech/B.E. are: 1-Language, 2-Physics, 3-Mathematics, 4-Any one of (Chemistry, Biology, Biotechnology, Technical Vocational Subject), 5-Any other subject
- According to MHRD, apart from admissions to IITs, the qualifying marks for admission to NITs, IIITs and GFTIs have also been revised. As per the notification, for candidates to qualify for admissions to NITs/IIITs/GFTIs, they should have secured at least 75% marks in class 12th exam or be in the top 20 percentile in the class 12th exam conducted by the respective boards. For SC/ST candidates, the eligibility criteria is 65% marks in class 12th.
Year of Passing and Number of Attempts
- Candidates who have passed 12th class or equivalent exam in 2018, 2019 or appearing in 2020 are eligible to apply for this exam.
- If candidates have appeared in a 12th or equivalent exam in 2017 but did not clear in 2017, but passed in 2018 are not eligible to apply.
- If candidates qualify 12th exam in 2018 & appear for improvement in 2019 for one or few subjects, then top 20 percentile cut-off for 2018 will be considered.
- However, if a candidate writes all the subjects in 2020, then the best of the two performances will be considered.
- Candidates also note down that for the percentile system, total marks obtained in all the five subjects of mark sheet are required for JEE Main and JEE Advanced.
Every candidate can give at most 6 attempts (3 years) for JEE Main
State Codes for JEE Main Eligibility
State codes of JEE Main Eligibility is a code of the state from where the candidate has appeared in class 12th board examination. If candidate has given the improvement exam from another state then his state code will be the state from where he has first appeared for the exam not the later one.
Name of State/UT | Code | Name of State /UT | Code |
Andaman & Nicobar Islands (UT) | 01 | Lakshadweep (UT) | 19 |
Andhra Pradesh | 02 | Madhya Pradesh | 20 |
Arunachal Pradesh | 03 | Maharashtra | 21 |
Assam | 04 | Manipur | 22 |
Bihar | 05 | Meghalaya | 23 |
Chandigarh (UT) | 06 | Mizoram | 24 |
Chhattisgarh | 07 | Nagaland | 25 |
Dadra & Nagar Haveli (UT) | 08 | Odisha | 26 |
Daman & Diu (UT) | 09 | Puducherry (UT) | 27 |
Delhi (NCT) | 10 | Punjab | 28 |
Goa | 11 | Rajasthan | 29 |
Gujarat | 12 | Sikkim | 30 |
Haryana | 13 | Tamil Nadu | 31 |
Himachal Pradesh | 14 | Tripura | 32 |
Jammu & Kashmir | 15 | Uttar Pradesh | 33 |
Jharkhand | 16 | Uttarakhand | 34 |
Karnataka | 17 | West Bengal | 35 |
Kerala | 18 | Telangana | 36 |
Foreign/OCI/PIO/Nepal / Bhutan | 98 |
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% weighting 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, counseling for JEE Main was conducted through Central Seat Allocation Board(CSAB) but now officials have made changes in the counseling procedure. The JAB (Joint Admission Board), representing IITs and CSAB (Central Seat Allocation Board) are organizing a common counseling for the two exams of JEE. The joint counseling committee for these exams is known as the Joint Seat Allocation Authority (JoSAA). The admissions to various NITs and IIITs are done through JoSAA counseling.
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 with 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 simply 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 straightforward 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 a moderate level of difficulty. It had a few lengthy question and a few easy questions also. It required a 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 2018.
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 counseling. The purpose of JoSAA counseling is that admission to 97 institutes (IITs, NITs, and IIITs, CFTIs) should be made through a common platform. JEE Main 2017 counseling 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 centers. 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 with 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% weighting 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, counseling for JEE Main was conducted through Central Seat Allocation Board(CSAB) but now officials have made changes in the counseling procedure. The JAB (Joint Admission Board), representing IITs and CSAB (Central Seat Allocation Board) are organizing a common counseling for the two exams of JEE. The joint counseling committee for these exams is known as the Joint Seat Allocation Authority (JoSAA). The admissions to various NITs and IIITs are done through JoSAA counseling.
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.