The Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) is a computer-based All-India Common Entrance Exam conducted by National Testing Agency for getting admissions into engineering colleges across India. Every year, over 12 lakh students appear while only 2,50,000 qualify for JEE Advance.
JEE is conducted in two phases - JEE Main & JEE Advance. One need to clear given cutoff for JEE Main to qualify for JEE Advance. With a JEE Main score you can apply to institutions like NITs, IIITs and other Central or State Funded Institutes. Whereas IITs consider results of JEE Advance for admission.
Courses in NITs, IIITs and CFTIs participating though Central Seat Allocation Board will be based on All India Rank subject to the condition that the candidate should have secured at least 75% marks in the 12thclass examination, or be in the top 20 percentile in the 12th class / Qualifying examination conducted by the respective Boards. For SC/ST candidates the qualifying marks would be 65% in the 12th class / qualifying examination.
| Name of Exam | JEE Main |
| Exam Duration | 3 hours |
| Total Marks | 300 (100 marks each for Math, Physics & Chemistry) |
| Type of Questions | In each subject 20 questions will be MCQs & 5 will have answer to be filled as numerical value |
| Marking Schemes for MCQs | 4 marks for correct answers, (-1) marks for incorrect answers & 0 marks for unanswered |
| Marking Scheme for questions for which answer is a Numerical value | 4 marks for correct answers, 0 marks for incorrect answers & unanswered. |
| Total Attempts | Twice in a year (January & April) |
| Mode of Exam | Computer Based Online Test |
| Medium | English, Hindi, Gujarati |
| Purpose | Admissions to 31 NITs, 23 IIITs and 20 GFTIs |
JEE (Main)-2020 will be conducted in the following modes:
A) B.E. /B. Tech. in “Computer Based Test (CBT)” mode only.
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.
C) B.Planning : Mathematics- Part I , Aptitude Test-Part II and Planning Based Questions Part III in “Computer Based Test (CBT)” mode only
| 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.) |
| 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 |
| Result Declaration | 31st January 2020 |
| On-line submission of Application Form | February 2nd week 2020 |
| Printing of Admit Cards from NTA’s website | March 3rd week 2020 |
| Date of Examination | April 3rd to 9th, 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 |
| Result Declaration | April last week 2020 |
For complete JEE (Main) 2020 syllabus - click Complete JEE (Main) 2020 Syllabus
| Category | 2017 (Marks) | 2018 (Marks) | 2019 (Marks) |
| General | 81 | 74 | 89.75 |
| OBC (Non CL) | 49 | 45 | 74.31 |
| SC | 32 | 29 | 54.01 |
| ST | 27 | 24 | 44.33 |
