JEE-Advanced 2020 date announced

2019-09-19

The Joint Admissions Board, in its recent meeting, has decided to conduct the JEE-Advanced 2020 on 17 May 2020. Additionally, it has also announced that the exam shall also have a centre in San Francisco, owing to the large Indian diaspora in the US.

About JEE-Advanced : Through JEE (Advanced), IITs offer admission into undergraduate courses leading to a Bachelor’s, Integrated Master’s or Bachelor-Master Dual Degree in Engineering, Sciences or Architecture. Both Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees are awarded to candidates enrolled in the dual degree programs upon successful completion of the course curriculum. In some of the IITs, students enrolled into the 4-year Bachelor’s program have the option to pursue B.Tech. (Honors) and/or B.Tech. with Minors. Dual Degree students may also pursue a Minor. Further, in some IITs B. Tech. students also have the option to pursue Interdisciplinary Dual Degree, with Bachelors in parent Department and Masters in some other Department. All the above options require fulfilment of certain academic performance related criteria.

List of 23 IITs : IIT Bhilai, Bhubaneswar, Chennai, Dhanbad, Dharwad, Gandhinagar, Goa, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Indore, Kharagpur, Jammu, Jodhpur, Kanpur, Mandi, Mumbai, New Delhi, Palakkad, Patna, Roorkee, Ropar, Tirupati, Varanasi

Other institutes accepting JEE (Advanced) : Other institutes which have used JEE-Advanced ranks in the past include the following :
- Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (IISc)

- Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (IISERs) located in Berhampur, Bhopal, Kolkata, Mohali, Pune, Thiruvananthapuram and Tirupati

- Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST), Thiruvananthapuram

- Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology (RGIPT), Rae Bareli

- Indian Institute of Petroleum & Energy, Visakhapatnam

JEE-Advanced 2019 Statistics

Total number of candidates appeared in Papers 1 & 2 : 1,61,319

Total candidates who qualified : 38,705

Total number of qualified boys : 33,349

Total number of qualified girls : 5,356

Total number of qualified general (GE) candidates : 15,566

Total number of qualified general (GEN-EWS) candidates : 3,636

Total number of qualified OBC-NCL candidates : 7,651

Total number of qualified SC candidates : 8,758

Total number of qualified ST candidates : 3,094

Score of Top rankers in Common Rank List : 346 out of 372 (Mr. Gupta Kartikey Chandresh of Ballarpur)

Score of Top ranked (CRL 10) female candidate : 308 out of 372 (Ms. Shabnam Sahay of Ahmedabad)

Detailed info : For complete information, check JEE-Adv at https://goo.gl/gQNH44

-- MEP News Bureau