IIT Joint Admission Board

JEE Main and Advanced Exams from 2013-14 by JAB

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The fiasco over proposed new common entrance examination for admission to IIT has been resolved with IITs approved a fresh formula. As per the latest formula, the Engineering admissions in IITs from 2013 will be based on ranks achieved in the Advanced Test mixed with top 20 percentile in the Board exams. The IITs will consider the top 20 percent of the candidates from CBSE, ICSE and State Boards for admission to Engineering programmes from 2013-14.

Now, there is a clarity on the entrance exam for IITs. There will be two stages in the common joint entrance exam. These are JEE Main and JEE Advanced. To get qualified for IITs, candidates should clear JEE Main with a high score to qualify for the JEE Advanced Examination. Candidates those qualified in Advanced examination and secured place in the top 20 percentile of the Board exams will be considered for admissions in IITs.

JEE Advanced Test will be conducted after the JEE Main Examination. Only top 150,000 candidates from all categories in the JEE Main will be qualified to appear for the JEE (previously known as AIEEE) Advanced test. The new admission system will be implemented from 2013-14. The JEE advanced examination will be held by Joint Admission Board (JAB) and Joint Implementation Committee.

Joint Entrance Exam – JEE for IIT, NIT and IIIT Admissions from 2013-14

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The proposed joint entrance examination (JEE) for admission to Engineering programmes (B.Tech / BE) in IITs, NITs and IIITs will be held from the next academic year, 2012-13. The Joint Councils of the IITs, NITs, IIITs and other centrally funded technical institutions has accepted the proposal to the HRD Ministry to conduct joint entrance exam for these reputed technical institutions. Most important change of the selection process is that the marks obtained in Class XII Board examinations will also be considered in the admissions.

Initially it was reported that the IITs had not in favour of the single entrance considering the standards of the institutions. The IITs have managed to persuade HRD Minister Kapil Sibal to allow them to maintain a separate merit list from the common entrance. This process will be reviewed after 2015 and IITs will also join the common merit list from that year.

Exam Structure: There will be two stages in the new JEE 2013-13. The test will be conducted by the IITs’ Joint Admission Board (JAB). The two parts in the test are : JEE Main and JEE Advanced. The marks secured in Class XII Board or its equivalent stream will be normalized with percentiles plus the marks obtained in the JEE-main test with equal weightage. Other institutions will use different weightage percentiles for screening candidates.

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