JEE Main in the off-line format on Sunday, 7 April 2013 witnessed close to 14 lakh aspirants appearing

Updated on: Monday, April 08, 2013

Close to 14 lakh engineering aspirants appeared for the all India level common engineering entrance exam - the "Joint Entrance Examination" (JEE) Main in the off-line format (pen and paper format) on Sunday, 7 April 2013.

The JEE Main was formerly known as the All India Engineering Entrance Examination (AIEEE).

Held across 81 cities, including Dubai, Riyad and Muscat and Bahrain city, the CBSE revealed that 2.8 lakh more students have taken the exam as compared to last year.

The online format of JEE Main will now be held from 8-25 April in 29 cities including three cities abroad Colombo, Kathmandu and Singapore.

The top 150,000 scorers in the exam will be eligible to take the JEE (Advanced) on 2 June, which is meant for admissions into the prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs).

The results will be declared on 7 May, 2013.

Conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), the exam will prove to be the gateway for admissions into BE, B.Tech and B.Arch courses in National Institutes of Technology (NITs), Indian Institutes of Information Technology (IIITs), Delhi Technological University and other centrally-funded technical institutes.
According to JEE expert, the cut-off is expected to go higher as the paper was relatively easy.

There are 9,647 undergraduate seats in 15 IITs, IIT-BHU and Indian School of Mines-Dhanbad, while the number of undergraduate seats in the 30 NITs of the country is 15,678 including the seats in the new ones.

JEE Main in the off-line format on Sunday, 7 April 2013 witnessed close to 14 lakh aspirants appearing

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