Joint Entrance Examination - 2017

Joint Entrance Examination - 2017

The Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India has notified following two changes in the JEE pattern for 2017:

1.     There shall be no weightage for the 12^th class marks in calculating the ranks in the JEE (Main) examination,

2.     For the candidates to qualify for the admission in the IITs/NITs/IIITs and such other CFTIs whose admissions are based on the JEE (Advanced)/JEE(Main) ranks, they should have secured at least 75% marks in the 12^th class examination, or be in the top 20 percentile in the 12th class examination conducted by the respective Boards. For SC/ST students the qualifying marks would be 65% in the 12th class examination.

The States of Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Haryana, Uttrakhand, Nagaland, Odisha & some other institutions have joined JEE (Main) system, however, their admission criteria will be notified by the concerned authorities. Therefore, the candidates seeking admission to the institutions in these states, which were earlier admitting based on their State level examination, are also advised to fill in the JEE (Main)–2017  application form online. The Paper-1 (B. E./B. Tech.) of JEE (Main) will also be an eligibility test for the JEE (Advanced), which the candidate has to take if he/she is aspiring for admission to the undergraduate programmes offered by the IITs.

 i) All the Indian citizen candidates should possess AADHAAR card issued by UIDAI. At the time of filling application form of JEE (Main)–2017, the candidates will have to enter their AADHAAR number, name, date of birth & gender which will be validated with the UIDAI’s data.  In case, these particulars do not match, the candidates will not be able to fill the application form for JEE (Main)–2017. Therefore, the candidates are advised to ensure that their AADHAAR card has correct details of their name, date of birth & gender as per school records. If there is some mismatch in these details, the candidates should immediately get it corrected in AADHAAR data or school records, as the case may be.

ii) Applicants not yet enrolled for Aadhaar, are hereby required to make application for Aadhaar enrolement in case he/she is entitled to obtain Aadhaar as per section 3 of Aadhaar Act.  Such applicant may visit any Aadhaar enrolement center (list available at www.uidai.gov.in) to get enrolled for Aadhaar. 

iii) In order to facilitiate such applicants who are not having Aadhaar, the CBSE has specially set up facilitation centres in each city of examination for the purpose of Aadhaar enrolement. The applicants can approach such facilitation centres who will not charge any amount from any applicant for Aadhaar enrolement. 

The list of the facilitation centre is available on www.jeemain.nic.in. 

These applicants who have enrolled for Aadhaar and have not received Aadhaar  should enter 14 digit Aadhaar Enrolment ID (with slash) printed on the Aadhaar enrolment slip at the time of filling online application form for JEE(Main) 2017. 

iv) In case Aadhaar enrolment facility is not available at the facilitation centres, the applicants should submit a request for Aadhaar enrolment. The facilitation centre will issue a registration number to such applicants. This registration number should be entered by the applicants at the time of filling online application form for JEE(Main) 2017.

v) The above provisions shall be applicable in all states except J&K, Assam & Meghalaya.

vi) The applicants who have passed or appearing in Class XII examination from the states of J&K, Assam & Meghalaya need to enter the passport number, ration card number, bank account number or any other valid Govt. identity number provided they should select the city of examination in these states only.

The online application process will start from 01st December, 2016 onwards. The last date for application is 02nd January, 2017 and fee can be paid up to 03rd January 2017.