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JEE-Advanced-2017

JEE 2017 (Joint Entrance Exam) notification

The Joint Entrance Examination (Advanced) 2017[JEE (Advanced) 2017] will be conducted by the seven zonal Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) under the guidance of the Joint Admission Board (JAB) 2017.

The Joint Entrance Examination JEE-Advanced is an all-India examination administered and conducted in seven IIT zones across the country by the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) for admission to undergraduate courses.

JEE (Advanced) 2017 is the IIT Joint Entrance Examination. Seven Zonal Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are conducting JEE Advanced 2017 / IIT JEE 2017 under the guidance of Joint Admission Board. This is the second stage of Joint Entrance Examination after the CBSE JEE Main

IIT Madras is the organizing institute of JEE (Advanced) 2017. Admission in Bachelor's, Integrated Master's and Dual Degree Programmes in the IITs and Indian School of Mines is offered through the IIT JEE Advanced

Important Dates for JEE (Advanced) 2017

JEE Advanced 2017 Registration Start Date: 28th April 2017
JEE Advanced 2017 Registration Last Date: 02nd May 2017
JEE Advanced 2017 Registration with Late fee: 3rd May to 4th May 2017
Admit card available for downloading from: 10th May to 21st May 2017
JEE Advanced Paper-1: 21st May 2017 (09:00 to 12:00 hours)
JEE Advanced Paper-2: 21st May 2017 (14:00 to 17:00 hours)
Online display of ORS and scanned Responses: 31st May 2017 (10:00 am) to 03rd June 2017 (5:00 pm)
Display of Answer Keys: 04th June 2017
Collecting candidate’s Feedback on answer keys: 04th June to 6th June 2017
Declaration of JEE (Advanced) results: 11th June 2017 (10:00 am)
Online registration of Architecture Aptitude Test (AAT): 11th June (10:00 am) to 12th June 2017 (5:00 pm)
Exam Date for Architecture Aptitude Test: 14th June 2017 (09:00 am to 12:00)
AAT Result Announcement Date: 18th June 2017
Seat Allotment Dates (tentative): 19th June to 18th July 2017

Participating Institutes

Varanasi IIT (BHU); IIT Bhilai; IITBBS; Mumbai IITB*; IITD*; IIT (ISM); IIT Dharwad; IITGN; IIT Goa; IITG*; IITH; IITI; IIT Jammu; IITJ; IITK*; IITKgp*; IITM*; IIT Mandi; IITPKD; IITP; IITR*; IITRPR; IITTP
*Zonal IITs which, will conduct JEE (Advanced) 2017 examination

Eligibility for JEE (Advanced) 2017

All the candidates, including foreign nationals, must fulfill each and every one of the following five criteria to appear in JEE (Advanced) 2017

Criterion 1 - Performance in JEE (Main) 2017

Candidates should be among the top 2,20,000 (including all categories) by scoring positive marks in Paper-1 of JEE (Main) 2017
The percentages of various categories 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, 3% horizontal reservation is available for PwD (including Dyslexic) candidates
As shown in the following table, the usual order will be followed while choosing top 2,20,000 candidates in various categories who have scored positive marks in JEE (Main) 2017
For eligibility criteria for appearing in JEE (Main) - 2017 please refer to www.jeeadv.ac.in

Criterion 2 - Age Limit:

Candidates should have been born on or after 01st October 1992. Five years relaxation is given to SC, ST and PwD candidates, i.e., these candidates should have been born on or after 01st October 1987

Criterion 3 - Number of Attempts:

A candidate can attempt JEE (Advanced) a maximum of two times in consecutive years. Therefore, candidates who appeared in JEE (Advanced) 2016 for the first time are also eligible

Criterion 4 - Appearance in Class XII (or equivalent) Exam:

A candidate should have appeared for the Class XII (or equivalent) examination for the first time in either 2016 or 2017
However, candidates whose Class XII (or equivalent) examination results for the academic year 2014-15 were declared after June 2015 are eligible to appear in JEE (Advanced) 2017

Criterion 5 - Earlier admission at IITs:

A candidate should NOT have been admitted in an IIT irrespective of whether or not he/she continued in the program) OR accepted the IIT seat by reporting at a reporting centre in the past. The candidates whose admission at IITs was cancelled are also NOT eligible to appear in JEE (Advanced) 2017
Candidates who have been admitted to a preparatory course in any of the IITs for the first time in 2016 can appear in JEE (Advanced) 2017. The candidates who have paid seat acceptance fee but not accepted the seat (by not reporting at any reporting centre during joint seat allocation in 2016) are eligible to appear in JEE (Advanced) 2017

Reservation of Seats for JEE Advanced 2017

As per the rules of the Govt of India, candidates belonging to certain categories are admitted to seats reserved for them based on relaxed criteria. These categories are:
Other Backward Classes (OBC) if they belong to Non-Creamy Layer (NCL)
Scheduled Castes (SC) - 15%
Scheduled Tribe (ST) - 7.5% of seats in every course
Persons with Disability (PwD) - 3% of seats in every category, viz., GEN, OBCNCL, SC/ST
Benefit of OBC (NCL), SC and ST reservation shall be given only to those classes/castes/tribes which are in the respective central list of corresponding states published by the Govt. of India
Candidates (belonging to OBC (NCL), SC/ST and PwD) who will be eligible to write JEE Advanced 2016 must upload the soft (scanned) copy of their certificate during the online registration

SC/ST Candidates: For candidates belonging to SC and ST categories, 15% and 7.5 seats, respectively, are reserved in every program in all IITs and ISM Dhanbad. Candidates belonging to these categories will be declared qualified on the basis of a relaxed criterion

OBC (NCL) Candidates: For candidates belonging to OBC (Non-Creamy Layer), 27% of the seats are reserved in all IITs, and ISM Dhanbad. For the purpose of reservation of seats in JEE Advanced 2015, a candidates will be considered as OBC only in he/she belongs to the non-creamy layer of this category

Personas with Disability (PwD): In each institute 3% of seats in every category are reserved for Persons with Disability (PwD); for any type of disability (viz, locomotor, visual, dyslexia, speech, and / or hearing) benefit would be given those who have at least 40% physical impairment

Candidates who are Persons with Disability will be required to submit the original certificate issued by a district medical board/competent authority in the prescribed format at the time of admission

Preferential Allotment of Seats: Defence Service (DS) category 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 category candidates
To avail of this preferential allotment, a DS category candidate must be in the Common Merit List of JEE (Advanced) 2017

Type of Examination JEE Advanced

In JEE Advanced 2017, there will be two papers, each of three hours duration. The questions papers will be printed separately in English and Hindi
Candidates have to specify their choice of question paper language at the time of online registration for JEE Advanced 2017
Each of the question papers will consist of three separate parts in Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics

JEE Advanced 2017 questions will be of objective (multiple choice) type, designed to test comprehension, reasoning and analytical ability of candidates
In some sections, incorrect answers may be awarded with negative marks
Candidates will be provided with a two page doublet of optical response sheet (ORS) for answering. The answers for each the questions are to be marked on the front page of the ORS by darkening the appropriate bubble/bubbles (as per instructions in the questions paper)

Candidates are directed to use black ballpoint pen only to darken the bubble(s) given as choices of answers to the questions
Candidates must strictly follow the instructions printed on the question paper for appropriate way of darkening the bubbles for valid answers

Papers: JEE Advanced examination comprises of two papers: Paper 1 and Paper 2

Duration: The duration of both exams will be three hours

Subjects: Both question paper will contain the three separate sections i.e., Mathematics, Physics & Chemistry

IIT JEE Exam Centres:

Last year, the examination was held in many towns and cities of India as well as in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. At the time of filling online application form, the candidates can choose three cities/towns where he/she wants to take the exam
The examination centres are separated into seven IITs zones namely IIT Bombay Zone, IIT Delhi Zone, IIT Guwahati Zone, IIT Kanpur Zone, IIT Kharagpur Zone, IIT Madras Zone and IIT Roorkee Zone