Notification Date: 2018-04-30

Last Updated on: 2020-02-16

What is JEE Advanced ?

• Joint Entrance Examination - Advanced is an all India common engineering entrance examination which is conducted for admission into the top most engineering institutes(IITs) in India.
• Admission into various undergraduate programs across IITs is through the Joint Entrance Examination (Advanced).There are twenty three IITs across the country
• Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are institutions of national importance established through Acts of Parliament for fostering excellence in education. Over the years, IITs have created a world class educational platform that is dynamically sustained through quality teaching and internationally acclaimed research with excellent infrastructure and the best available minds.

Courses Offered:

• Through JEE (Advanced), IITs offer admission into undergraduate courses leading to a Bachelor's, Integrated Master's or Bachelor-Master Dual Degree in Engineering, Sciences or Architecture.
• Both Bachelor's and Master's degrees are awarded to candidates enrolled in the dual degree programs upon successful completion of the course curriculum.
• In a some of the IITs, students enrolled into the 4-year Bachelor's program have the option to pursue B.Tech. (Honors) and/or B.Tech. with Minors. Dual Degree students may also pursue a Minor.
• However, not all the listed programs and courses are available in all the institutes.

• Only those academic programs for which admission is based on JEE (Advanced) examination are shown here. These Institutes also have other academic programs, viz., B.Des., M.Tech., M.Sc., M.Des., Ph.D., etc. with different admission criteria.

Eligibility:

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA FOR INDIAN NATIONALS (including PIO/OCI) FOR APPEARING IN JEE (ADVANCED) 2018
• Performance in JEE (Main) 2018: Candidates should be among the top 2,24,000* (including all categories) in Paper-1 of JEE (Main) 2018. The percentages of various categories of candidates to be shortlisted are: 27% for OBC-NCL, 15% for SC, 7.5% for ST and the remaining 50.5% is OPEN for all. Within each of these four categories, 5% horizontal reservation is available for PwD candidates. The following table show the order to be followed while choosing top 2,24,000* candidates in various categories based on the performance in Paper-1 of JEE (Main) 2018.

Category-wise distribution of top 2,24,000* candidates

Order	Category	Number of "Top" candidates
1	OPEN	1,07,464	Total: 1,13,120
2	OPEN-PwD	5,656
3	OBC-NCL	57,456	Total: 60,480
4	OBC-NCL-PwD	3,024
5	SC	31,920	Total: 33,600
6	SC-PwD	1,680
7	ST	15,960	Total: 16,800
8	ST-PwD	840

Note: The total number of candidates can be slightly greater than 2,24,000 in the presence of "tied" ranks/scores in any category
• Age limit: Candidates should have been born on or after October 1, 1993. Five years relaxation is given to SC, ST and PwD candidates, i.e., these candidates should have been born on or after October 1, 1988.
• Number of attempts: A candidate can attempt JEE (Advanced) a maximum of two times in two consecutive years.
• A candidate should have appeared for the Class XII (or equivalent) examination for the first time in either 2017 or 2018.However, if the examination Board of Class XII (or equivalent) declares the results for the academic year 2015-16 after June 2016, then the candidates of that board who appeared for their class XII exam in 2016 are also eligible to appear in JEE (Advanced) 2018, provided they meet the other eligibility criteria.
• A candidate should NOT have been admitted in an IIT irrespective of whether or not he/she continued in the program OR accepted an IIT seat by reporting at a reporting centre in the past. Candidates whose admission at IITs was cancelled after joining any IIT are also NOT eligible to appear in JEE (Advanced) 2018.
  Candidates who have been admitted to a preparatory course in any of the IITs for the first time in 2017 can appear in JEE (Advanced) 2018. The candidates who paid seat acceptance fee in 2017 but (i) did not report at any reporting centre OR, (ii) withdrew before the last round of seat allotment, OR, (iii) had their seat cancelled (for whatever reason) before the last round of seat allotment for IITs, during the joint seat allocation in 2017, are eligible to appear in JEE (Advanced) 2018.

• Information for Foreign Candidates Appearing in JEE (Advanced) 2018 Click Here

Reservation of Seats:

• Other Backward Classes belonging to the Non-Creamy Layer (OBC-NCL) - 27%
• Scheduled Caste (SC) - 15% of seats in every course.
• Scheduled Tribe (ST) - 7.5% of seats in every course.
• Persons with Disability (PwD) - 5% seats in each of OPEN, OBC-NCL, SC and ST category seats.
• Defence Service (DS) candidates are children of defence / paramilitary personnel killed or permanently disabled in action during war or peacetime operations. Two seats are available for preferential allotment in each Institute for DS candidates.
• Foriegn Nationals -Candidates who are NOT citizens of India (by birth or naturalized), do not belong to PIO/OCI category, and whose parents are not citizens of India and do not come under PIO/OCI category at the time of registering for JEE (Advanced)-2018 are treated as foreign nationals. Seats allotted to foreign nationals are supernumerary with a cap of 10% of total number of seats in every course. However, the seats allotted to PIO/OCI card holders will be under OPEN category, but not supernumerary.

OTHER INSTITUTES:

Some centrally funded institutes have used JEE (Advanced) ranks in the past. These include:
• Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (IISc)
• Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (IISERs) located in Berhampur, Bhopal, Kolkata, Mohali, Pune, Thiruvananthapuram and Tirupati
• Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST), Thiruvananthapuram
• Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology (RGIPT), Rae Bareli
• Indian Institute of Petroleum & Energy, Visakhapatnam
Candidates should contact these institutes directly for additional information regarding admission.

Schedule Of JEE Advanced-2018:

Exam Pattern:

Mode of Exam: The entire JEE (Advanced) 2018 Examination will be conducted in fully Computer Based Test (CBT) mode.

Application Fee:

• Each question paper will consist of three separate sections, viz., Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics
• The question papers will consist of objective type (multiple choice and numerical answer type) questions designed to test comprehension, reasoning and analytical ability of candidates
• Negative marks will be awarded for incorrect answers to some of the questions.
• The question paper will be in either English or Hindi.

Minimum percentage of marks prescribed for inclusion in the rank list:

Performance in Class 12^th (OR Eauivalent) Board Examination:

• Must have secured at least 75% aggregate marks in the Class XII (or equivalent) Board examination. The aggregate marks for SC, ST and PwD candidates should be at least 65%.
• Must be within the category-wise top 20 percentile of successful candidates in their respective Class XII (or equivalent) board examination

Important Dates:

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