JEE Main and JEE Advanced 2015: Seat Allocation Postponed

Updated on: Tuesday, June 30, 2015

The choices for joint seat allocation for JEE Main 2015 and JEE Advanced 2015 has been rescheduled again. It has been announced that, the process will start today. Earlier, the students had started to filling-in their choices on June 26, the date was postponed to June 29, and in final the seat allocation will begin today. The official site of JEE Advanced 2015 states that the delay is caused because CBSE has not announced the JEE Main 2015 Paper 1 and Paper 2 ranks till now.

The official website of Joint Seat Allocation Authority (JoSAA) 2015, for admission to IITs and ISM through JEE Advanced 2015 and to NITs, IIITs, Other GFTIs through JEE Main 2015 was started on June 23. There are a total of 87 participating institutes, 17 are Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), 31 are National Institutes of Technology (NITs), 18 are Indian Institutes of Information Technology (IIITs), 18 are Government Funded Technical Institutions (GFTIs) and Indian School of Mines (ISM). In total, the institutes offer 33,925 seats.

Under the category-wise break-up, 16,963 seats are available for Open category, Open PwD has 524 seats, Scheduled Caste consists of 4,873 seats, SC PwD has 156 seats, Scheduled Tribe comprises of 2,745 seats, ST PwD has 103 seats, OBC NCL has 8,291 seats and 270 seats are under OBC NCL PwD. JEE Main 2015 was held by CBSE on April 4, April 10 and April 11. The results for the same were announced on April 27.

Over 13 lakh candidates appeared for JEE Main 2015 this year, out of which almost three lakh students took the online based exam. The JEE Advanced 2015 exam was conducted on May 24. The results for the same were announced on June 18. As per the records, total of 1,24,741 candidates registered for the exam, out of which 1,27,238 appeared for the exam. And only 26,456 candidates managed to qualify JEE Advanced 2015.

JEE Main and JEE Advanced 2015: Seat Allocation Postponed

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