Admission criteria to Undergraduate Engineering Programs at NITs, IIITs, other Centrally Funded Technical Institutions (CFTI), Institutions funded by participating State Governments, and other Institutions shall include the performance in the class 12/equivalent qualifying Examination and in the Joint Entrance Examination, JEE (Main). The (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 programs offered by the Indian Institute of Technology (IITs).
Only those candidates who have passed their Class 12th Examination or any equivalent qualifying examination in 2018 or 2019; or those who are appearing in their Class 12th Examination or any equivalent qualifying examination in 2020 are eligible to appear in January JEE(Main)-2020 Examination.
Candidates who passed Class 12th/Qualifying examination in 2017 or before as well as those who will appear in such examination in 2021 or later are not eligible to appear in JEE (Main)–2020.
Candidates must note that the IITs permit only two attempts for the JEE (Advanced), i.e. a candidate should have appeared for the Class XII (or equivalent) examination for the first time in either 2019 or 2020, subject to the condition of not having been admitted at an IIT on earlier occasion. Details may be obtained from the Information Brochure of the JEE(Advanced)2020.
Subject combinations for each paper, type of questions in each paper and mode of examination is given in the table below:
| PAPER | SUBJECTS | TYPE OF QUESTIONS | MODE OF EXAMINATION |
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| B.E./B.Tech. | Mathematics, Physics & Chemistry | Objective Type - Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) & Questions for which answer is a numerical value, with equal weightage to Mathematics, Physics & Chemistry | “Computer Based Test (CBT)” mode only |
| B. Arch | Mathematics – Part I | Objective Type - Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) & Questions for which answer is a numerical value | “Computer Based Test (CBT)” mode only |
| Aptitude Test – Part II | Objective Type - Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) | ||
| Drawing Test – Part III | Questions to test drawing aptitude | “Pen & Paper Based” (offline) mode to be attempted on Drawing Sheet | |
| B. Planning | Mathematics – Part I | Objective Type - Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) & Questions for which answer is a numerical value | “Computer Based Test (CBT)” mode only |
| Aptitude Test – Part II | Objective Type - Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) | ||
| Planning Based Questions - Part III | Objective Type - Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) |
| EVENTS | Dates | |||
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| On-line submission of Application Form | 03.09.2019 to 30.09.2019(up to 11.50 p.m.) | |||
| Successful final transaction of fee | 03.09.2019 to 01.10.2019 (through Credit/Debit Card/ Net Banking/UPI and PAYTM Service up to 11.50 p.m.) | |||
| Fee payable for January JEE (Main)– 2020 | In India | Outside India | ||
| B.E./B.Tech or B.Arch or B.Planning | General/Gen-EWS/ OBC(NCL) | Boys-Rs 650/- Girls- Rs 325/- |
Boys-Rs 3000/- Girls- Rs 1500/- |
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| SSC/Gen-EWS/ OBC(NCL) | Boys-Rs 325/- Girls- Rs 325/- |
Boys-Rs 1500/- Girls- Rs 1500/- |
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| B.E./B.Tech & B. Arch or B.E./B.Tech & | General/Gen-EWS/ OBC(NCL) | Boys-Rs 1300/- Girls- Rs 650/- |
Boys-Rs 6000/- Girls- Rs 3000/- |
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| B. Planning or B.E./B.Tech, B. Arch & B.Planning or B.Arch & B.Planning | SC/ST/PwD/Transgender | Boys-Rs 650/- Girls- Rs 650/- |
Boys-Rs 3000/- Girls- Rs 3000/- |
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| Processing charges and Goods & Service Taxes (GST) are to be paid by the candidate, as applicable. | ||||
| Correction in particulars | 11.10.2019 to 17.10.2019 (upto 11.50 p.m.) | |||
| Printing of Admit Cards from NTA’s website | From 06.12.2019 | |||
| Date of Examination | Between 06.01.2020 to 11.01.2020 | |||
| Timing of Examination | First Shift | 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. | ||
| Second Shift | 2:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. | |||
| Display of Question Paper attempted by the Candidate and Answer Keys for inviting challenges on NTA’s website | Date shall be displayed on the NTA’s website | |||
| Declaration of Result on NTA’s website | By 31st January 2020 | |||
| EXAMINATION PATTERN | |||||
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| 1. | Dates of Examination | Between 06.01.2020 (Monday) to 11.01.2020 (Saturday) | |||
| 2. | Allocation of Date and shift | Random | |||
| 3. | Medium of Question Paper | Candidates have to opt language of QP in the Online Application Form. | |||
| English & Hindi | All Centre Cities | ||||
| English, Hindi and Gujarati. | Centre Cities in Gujarat, Daman & Diu and Dadra & Nagar Haveli | ||||
| (a) B.E./B. Tech. “Computer Based Test (CBT)” mode only to be attempted on Computer. Syllabus available on NTA’s Website. | |||||
| 4. | Subject wise distribution of Questions, Total Number of Questions and Marks | Subject | No of Questions | Marks | |
| Mathematics | (20+5*) | 100 | |||
| Physics | (20+5*) | 100 | |||
| Chemistry | (20+5*) | 100 | |||
| Total | 75 | 300 | |||
| *20 questions will be MCQs and 5 questions will have answer to be filled as numerical value. | |||||
| 5. | Marking Scheme for MCQs | Correct Answer | Four mark (+4) | ||
| Incorrect Answer | Minus one mark (-1) | ||||
| Unanswered / Marked for Review | No mark (0) | ||||
| 6. | Marking Scheme for questions for which answer is a Numerical value | Correct Answer | Four mark (+4) | ||
| Incorrect Answer | No mark (0) | ||||
| Unanswered / Marked for Review | No mark (0) | ||||
| 7. | Method of determining merit | Conversion of raw score in Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Total into NTA scores. Overall merit shall be prepared by merging NTA scores of all shifts of all days. | |||
| 8. | Method of resolving ties |
Tie between candidates obtaining equal Total NTA scores in B.E./B.Tech, will be resolved in
following descending order:
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| (b) B. Arch: Mathematics- Part I and Aptitude Test-Part II in “Computer Based Test (CBT)” mode only and Drawing Test –Part III in “Pen & Paper Based” (offline) mode to be attempted on drawing sheet of A4 size. | |||||
| 9. | Subject wise distribution of Questions, Total Number of Questions and Marks | Subject | No of Questions | Marks | |
| Mathematics-Part I | (20+5*) | 100 | |||
| Aptitude Test-Part II | 50 | 200 | |||
| Drawing Test –Part III | 02 | 100 | |||
| Total | 77 | 400 | |||
| *20 questions will be MCQs and 5 questions will have answer to be filled as numerical value. | |||||
| 10. | (a) Marking Scheme for MCQs | Correct Answer | Four mark (+4) | ||
| Incorrect Answer/Multiple Answer | Minus one mark (-1) | ||||
| Unanswered / Marked for Review | No mark (0) | ||||
| (b) Marking Scheme for questions for which answer is a Numerical value | Correct Answer | Four mark (+4) | |||
| Incorrect Answer | No mark (0) | ||||
| Unanswered / Marked for Review | No mark (0) | ||||
| (c) Marking Scheme for Drawing Test –Part III | Two questions to be evaluated out of 100 marks. | ||||
| 11. | Method of determining merit | Conversion of raw score in Mathematics, Aptitude Test, Drawing Test and Total into NTA Scores. Overall merit shall be prepared by merging NTA Scores of all shifts of all days. | |||
| 12. | Method of resolving ties | Tie between candidates obtaining equal Total NTA
scores in B.Arch will
be resolved in following descending order:
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| (c) B. Planning : Mathematics- Part I , Aptitude Test-Part II and Planning Based Questions Part III in “Computer Based Test (CBT)” mode only | |||||
| 13. | Subject wise distribution of Questions, Total Number of Questions and Marks | Subject | No of Questions | Marks | |
| Mathematics-Part I | (20+5*) | 100 | |||
| Aptitude Test-Part II | 50 | 200 | |||
| Planning Based Objective Type MCQs –Part III | 25 | 100 | |||
| Total | 100 | 400 | |||
| *20 questions will be MCQs and 5 questions will have answer to be filled as numerical value. | |||||
| 14. | Marking Scheme for MCQs | Correct Answer | Four mark (+4) | ||
| Incorrect Answer/Multiple Answer | Minus one mark (-1) | ||||
| Unanswered / Marked for Review | No mark (0) | ||||
| 15. | Marking Scheme for questions for which answer is a Numerical value | Correct Answer | Four mark (+4) | ||
| Incorrect Answer | No mark (0) | ||||
| Unanswered / Marked for Review | No mark (0) | ||||
| 16. | Method of determining merit | Conversion of raw score in Mathematics, Aptitude Test, Planning Based Test and Total into NTA Scores. Overall merit shall be prepared by merging NTA Scores of all shifts of all days. | |||
| 17. | Method of resolving ties | Tie between candidates obtaining equal Total NTA scores in B.Planning will be resolved in following descending order:
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