Know more about IIT JEE

Before thinking about IIT JEE exam, you need to know what are IIT’s. Indian Institutes of Technology or IIT’s are the most esteemed institutions in India, which provide globally recognized high-quality education in the field of science and technology. The students of IIT’s are regarded as extremely skilled professionals who are capable of taking the world to the next level. Every year top worldwide engineering and technology companies hire hundreds of professionals from IIT’s to grow their business. Towards the end of final semester, almost all the IIT students get placed in top MNC’s with good salary packages.

Today, there are 16 IIT’s across the country and each of them offers various courses. Getting an admission in any of these IIT’s is every student’s dream and you need to be extremely be bright in your studies in order to make that dream come true. Those who are aiming for IIT’s need to crack the JEE exam. IIT’s offer 4-year B.Tech, B.Pharm, 5-year B.Arch, Integrated M.Sc. and M.Tech courses and they conduct a Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) every year to select candidates for appropriate courses.

Now students aspiring to get into IITs, need to attend both JEE Main and JEE Advanced (after clearing JEE Main).

·    JEE-Main is for those who wish to seek admission in IIITs (Indian Institutes of Information Technology), National Institutes of Technology (NITs), CFTIs (Central Funded Technical Institute) and so on.

·  JEE-Advanced is for those who wish to seek admission in Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and the Indian School of Mines (ISM) (Dhanbad). The candidates who apply for JEE Main also have the option to apply for JEE Advanced.

If you are aiming for IIT JEE, it is good have a clear idea about the examination pattern and eligibility criteria before writing the exam. Here are a few useful information about the examination:

JEE Main 2016 eligibility

• Only class XII passed or equivalent exam or qualifying exam passed students will be allowed to appear JEE Main 2016 exam.

• Candidates appearing for qualifying exams are also eligible to write JEE Main 2016.

• DOB of General/OBC candidates appearing for JEE Main 2016 must be on or after 1st October 1991. But, for reserved candidates there is a 5 year relaxation in age limit.

• The candidate must clear all the five subjects before appearing for the exam.

• Those candidates who had passed class XII in or before 2013 are not eligible to appear JEE Main 2016.

• A candidate will be allowed to appear only 3 times for the JEE exam.

Exam pattern of JEE Main 2016

• The whole JEE Main exam consists of a total number of 90 questions. Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics will carry 30 questions each.

• JEE-Main Exam contains two Papers namely  Paper-1 and Paper-2. Both these papers carries Multiple Choice Questions and there will be negative marking for every wrong answer.

• Paper-1 is for those who wish to seek admission into B.Tech/B.E. (online and offline). Paper-2 is for those who wish to seek admission into B.Arch and B.Planning (offline only).

• Time allotted for each paper is 3 hours and applicants can apply to either one of these papers or both of them.