About IIT - JEE

If you are reading this book chances are that you are either already in Kota or planning to move to the city (if you are a student) to start your preparation for one of the engineering or medical competitive exams. If you are a parent, you might be reading it for your wards. In other cases, you might be an engineering or a medical enthusiast wondering whether to go to Kota for preparation or not. Whatever be the case, I’ll try to be as clear as possible to show brief you about the exam, the life in the city and an overall view to help you make a decision.

Let me give you a brief perspective about the IIT – JEE.

JEE or Joint Entrance Exam is an exam conducted on a national level for admissions into the colleges which are recognized as some of the top colleges in the country, namely the Indian Institute of Technology(IIT) among other colleges.

It is your gateway to the colleges which are considered some of the best Engineering colleges in India. If you are preparing for the JEE exam, here is a little description about the exam that you would be appearing in:

JEE – MAINS

JEE mains is the preliminary exam for admissions into various engineering colleges. Earlier held as a separate exam known as AIEEE(All India Engineering Entrance Exam), the pattern has now changed to JEE Mains and JEE Advanced.

In the Mains exam, the score is used for evaluation and based on the cut-off, a small portion of students qualify to write the JEE-Advanced exam for admissions into the IITs.

For those who do not qualify for the Advanced level, the score from Mains exam and the ranking is used to get admissions into colleges other than IITs.
Your JEE mains score can get you admission into the NITs(National Institute of Technology), IIITs(Indian Institute of Information Technology) and other engineering colleges.

JEE Mains is a 3 hour paper and consists of multiple choice questions with single correct answers. There are 30 multiple choice questions from each of Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics. The marking criteria is +4 for every correct answer, -1 for every wrong answer and 0 for any question that is left unattempted.

The number of students appearing for the Mains Exam is around 12 lakhs. Those qualifying for Advanced exam are around 2.25 lakhs every year.

JEE – Advanced

The Joint Entrance Examination – Advanced (formerly IIT - JEE) is the second and final level of the Joint Entrance Exam for admissions into the IITs and some other colleges like Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (IISERs), Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology, and the Indian Institute of Science(IISc).

The current admission rate is around 0.92% into the IITs and hence, this exam is considered one of the most competitive exams in the country.

There were originally 7 IITs until 2008. Thereafter, several more IITs were built. The 7 old IITs include IIT Roorkee, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Delhi, IIT Kanpur, IIT Bombay, IIT Madras, and IIT Guwahati.

Other IITs include IIT Ropar, IIT Bhubaneshwar, IIT Gandhinagar, IIT Hyderabad, IIT Jodhpur, IIT Patna, IIT Indore, IIT Mandi, IIT BHU, IIT Palakkad, IIT Tirupati, ISM Dhanbad, IIT Bhilai, IIT Goa, IIT Jammu and IIT Dharwad.

There are approximately 10,000 seats in all the 23 IITs put together.

The Advanced exam has multiple sections and marking patterns and is conducted in 2 papers of 3 hours each.