Updated on: Wednesday, July 01, 2015
JEE Main ranks has been released today at 11 am and now the process for admissions to IITs, NITs and other institutions have started. The filling-in of choices for joint seat allocation for JEE Main is set to begin today. Earlier, the students were to start filling-in their choices on June 26, the JEE Main ranks date was postponed to June 29 and subsequently June 30, and finally the seat allocation will begin today.
The official website of Joint Seat Allocation Authority (JoSAA) 2015,and JEE Main ranks for admission to IITs and ISM through JEE Advanced 2015 and to NITs, IITs, Other GFTIs through JEE Main 2015 was launched 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).
All the institutes offer a total of 33,925 seats together. As per the category-wise break-up, 16,963 seats are available under the 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 this year, out of which almost three lakh students took the online based exam. JEE Main ranks is being sought by the candiates. The JEE Advanced was conducted on May 24. The results for the same were announced on June 18. As per the statistics, total of 1,24,741 students registered for the exam, out of which 1,27,238 appeared for the exam. And only 26,456 candidates have managed to qualify JEE advanced. The web site of JEE Advanced states that the delay in JEE Main ranks is caused because CBSE had not announced the JEE Main 2015 Paper 1 rank and Paper 2 ranks as scheduled.