Joint Entrance Examination – Advanced (JEE-Advanced), formerly the Indian Institutes of Technology-Joint Entrance Examination (IIT-JEE) is an annual engineering college entrance examination in India.
Joint Entrance Examination – Advanced (JEE-Advanced), formerly the Indian Institutes of Technology-Joint Entrance Examination (IIT-JEE) is an annual engineering college entrance examination in India. It is conducted by one of the seven zonal IITs (IIT Roorkee, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Delhi, IIT Kanpur, IIT Bombay, IIT Madras, and IIT Guwahati ) under guidance of the Joint Admission Board(JAB). It is used as the sole admission test by the 23 Indian Institute of Technology (IITs).
Other universities like the Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISERs) and the premier Indian Institute of Science (IISc) also use the score obtained in JEE Advanced as the basis for admission. Any student who took admission to IITs could not appear for the JEE-Advanced exam in the next year, but the same was not the case with IISc, IISER, RGIPT and other institutes as these institutes only used JEE Advanced score for admission. The examination is organised each year by one of the various IITs, on a round robin rotation pattern.
Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) MAIN will be conducted by the NTA from 2019 onwards. This Examination was being conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) till 2018.
Offical WebsiteCandidates satisfying all the following criteria are eligible to appear in JEE(Advanced).
JEE (Main) 2019 will have two papers—Paper 1 (B.E./B.Tech.) and Paper 2 (B. Arch./B.Planning). Depending on the course(s), candidates seeking admission may take Paper 1 (B.E./B.Tech.) or Paper 2 (B.Arch./B.Planning) or both. The subject combination for each paper, types of questions in each paper and mode of examination are given in the table below.
Paper | Subjects | Type of Questions | Mode of Exams |
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Paper - 1(B.E. / B.Tech) | Physics, Chemistry & Mathematics | Objective type with equal weightage to Physics, Chemistry & Mathematics | Pen and Paper based Exam OR Computer based Exam |
Paper - 2 (B.Arch. / B.Planning) | Mathematics-Part I Aptitude-Part II Drawing-Part III | Objective type Questions to test drawing aptitude | Only Pen and Paper based Exam |