CBSE decides to hold Jee 2013 in two parts

Updated on: Thursday, September 27, 2012

 
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has decided to hold Joint Entrance Examination from 2013 for admission to undergraduate programmes in engineering in two parts, JEE-Main and JEE-Advanced. Only the top 1.5 lakh candidates (including all categories) based on performance in JEE Main will qualify to appear in the JEE Advanced examination.

The board had also decided that admission to any of the various branches of the Indian Institute of Technology will be based on category-wise All India Rank (AIR) in JEE Advanced, subject to the condition that such candidates are in the top 20 percentile categories in their respective Boards/Qualifying Examinations. Admission to NITs will be based on 40 % weightage for performance in Class XII board marks (normalised) and the remaining 60 % weightage would be given to performance in JEE Main and a combined All India Rank (AIR) would be decided accordingly.

The policy could also be adopted by other Centrally Funded Technical Institutions ( CFTIs) and participating Institutions.

The board further decided that in case any state opts to admit students in the engineering colleges affiliated to state universities where the a separate merit list based on relative weightage adopted by it is required, the merit list will be prepared accordingly.

The JEE-Main examination will also be conducted in regional languages of the state on request for state engineering colleges/ universities. However JEE-Advanced will be conducted in English/Hindi medium only.

The minimum academic qualification for appearing in JEE (MAIN) 2013 is that a candidate must have passed the final examination of 10+2 (Class XII) or its equivalent referred to as the qualifying examination. Those appearing in 10+2 (Class XII) final or equivalent examination in 2013 may also appear in JEE(MAIN) 2013 provisionally.There will be objective type questions with four options of a single correct answer. For each incorrect response, one-fourth (1/4) marks would be deducted. No deduction from the total score will, however, be made if no response is indicated for an item in the answer sheet.

The JEE-Main Offline Exam will be held on April 7, 2013. The online exam will be held from April 8 to 30, 2013.

The exact dates will be announced later. The JEE-Advanced - Offline Exam will be held on June 2, 2013. There will not be any online exam for JEE Advanced.

There will be no physical sale of forms.

The forms will be filled up online only. The forms will be available on JEE-Main website www.jeemain-edu.in from November 1, 2012. To help candidates fill up the application forms online, CBSE will release a list of facilitation centres at the time of release of the form.

 

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