JEE-Main exam on sunday

Hyderabad March 02: Joint Entrance Examination-Main (JEE-M) is going held to today at 1,781 centers across the country for admission in engineering colleges, and IIT. 10.2 lakh students are going to appear for the exam.

The Central Board of Secondary education (CBSE) conducts JEE-M, an all-India level engineering entrance for admission into IITs, NITs, IIITs, deemed universities and other Centrally Funded Technical Institutes (CFTI).

The exam is being conducted at 1,781 centers in 109 cities.

JEE-M is conducted in two parts- Paper I and Paper II.

Paper-I (BE/B Tech) will be conducted in both computer- based (online) and paper-pen (offline) mode while Paper II (B Arch/B Planning) will be conducted in pen-paper mode only.



Candidates who want to appear for JEE-Advanced 2017 will have to clear the JEE-M test first.
The HRD Ministry has notified two changes in the JEE pattern for 2017.

There shall be no weightage for class 12 marks in calculating the ranks in the JEE (Main) examination.
For the candidates to qualify for IITs/NITs/IIITs and such other CFTIs whose admissions are based on the JEE (Advanced) /JEE(Main) ranks, they should secure at least 75 percent marks in class 12 exams, or be in the top 20 percentile.

For SC/ST students, the qualifying marks would be 65 percent in the class 12 examination.