JEE-Advanced-2016 at a glance

Notification of JEE (Advanced) 2016

The JEE (Advanced) will be conducted by Seven Zonal IITs (under the directives of the Joint Admission Board) for admission to the undergraduate programmes in all IITs. All the candidates aspiring to take admission in the undergraduate programmes at IITs and ISM Dhanbad for the year 2016 will have to appear in the JEE (Main) - 2016 Paper-1. Seven Zonal IITs which conduct JEE (Advanced) 2016 examination are IITB, IITD, IITG, IITK, IITKgp, and IITM & IITR.

Examination Date

22 May, 2016 (Sunday)

Exam Timings

Paper-1       (09:00 to 12:00) IST

Paper-2       (14:00 to 17:00) IST

Question Papers

There are two question papers: Paper 1 and Paper 2 of three hours duration each. Both papers are compulsory. Each question paper will consist of three separate sections, viz., Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics. The question papers will consist of objective type (multiple choice and numerical answer type) questions designed to test comprehension, reasoning and analytical ability of candidates. Incorrect answers to some of the questions will be awarded negative marks.

Language

The question paper will be in either English or Hindi. Candidates must exercise the choice of question paper language while registering for JEE (Advanced) 2016. Change of question paper language will NOT be entertained after the registration.

Syllabus

For complete syllabi, please visit Website:  http://www.jeeadv.ac.in/scr/syllabi.php

About JEE (Advanced) 2016

1.      No. of Candidates from JEE (Main): Top two lakh candidates from JEE (Main) 2016 will be eligible to appear in JEE (Advanced) 2016.

4.    Foreign Nationals: Foreign nationals, including PIO and OCI card holders, are also eligible to appear in JEE (Advanced) 2016. Foreign nationals are outside the ambit of reservation of seats under various categories.

5.      Defence Service (DS): The children of not all defense service personnel are eligible for DS category seats. The DS category seats can be availed by the children whose parent was killed or permanently disabled in action during war or peacetime operations while in defense/paramilitary service.

6.   Performance in Class XII: For securing admission in IITs and ISM the candidate should either be in category wise top 20 percentile in class XII or must have scored at least 75% aggregate marks for general and OBC-NCL or 70% aggregate marks for SC, ST and PwD candidates.

Eligibility Criteria for Appearing in JEE (Advanced) 2016

A candidate, including a foreign national, must fulfill each and every one of the following five criteria to appear in JEE (Advanced) 2016.

Criterion 1 – Performance in JEE (Main) 2016: The candidate should be among the top 2,00,000 (all categories included) in JEE (Main) 2016. The percentage of the total number of candidates for various categories will be declared shortly.

Criterion 2 – Age limit: The candidate should have been born on or after 1st October, 1991 if belonging to the GEN or OBC-NCL category and on or after 1st October, 1986 if belonging to the SC, ST or PwD category.

Criterion 3 – No. of Attempts: A Candidate is allowed to write JEE (Advanced) examination for a maximum of two times and that too in consecutive years.

Criterion 4 – Appearance in Class XII (or equivalent) examination: Candidates who appeared for the Class XII (or equivalent) examination in 2015 and wish to re-appear in the same in 2016 will have to re-appear in all the subjects in 2016. Those who appeared for the first time in their Class XII exam in 2014 or earlier are NOT eligible. However, candidates whose Class XII (or equivalent) exam Board results for the academic year 2013-14 were declared after June 2014 are eligible to appear in JEE (Advanced) 2016.

Criterion 5 – Earlier admission at IITs/ISM: The candidate should NOT have been admitted OR even accepted the seat by paying seat acceptance fee at any of the IITs or ISM in the past. The candidates whose admission at IITs or ISM was cancelled are also NOT eligible. However, candidates who have been admitted to a preparatory course in any of the IITs in 2015 can appear in JEE (Advanced) 2016.

Exam Structure of JEE (Advanced)-2016 will be same as 2015

The JEE (Advanced) consists of two objective type papers i.e., Paper-1 & Paper-2. Each Paper consists of three parts – Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics with 3 separate sections i.e., Section-1, 2 & 3. Each paper contains total 60 questions consisting of 20 questions in each subject. The maximum marks are 264 comprising of 88 marks for each subject in Paper-1 and 240 comprising of 80 marks for each subject in Paper-2. Duration of each paper is 3 hours. In some Sections, incorrect answers will be awarded negative marks. Question papers are provided in both English and Hindi Medium.

PAPER-1:                           Time: 3 Hours (9:00-12:00)                 MM: 264 (88x3)

Sections	Type of Questions	No. of Questions	Full Marks	Negative Marks	Duration
1	Single Digit Integer	8	4 x 8 = 32	0	3 hrs. (9:00-12:00)
2	One or More than One Correct Option	10	4 x 10 = 40	-2
3	Match the Following	2	2 x (2*4) = 16	-1
	MCQs	20	88

PAPER-2:                         Time: 3 Hours (14:00-17:00)               MM: 240 (80x3)

Section	Type of Questions	No. of Questions	Full Marks	Negative Marks	Duration
1	Single Digit Integer	8	4 x 8 = 32	0	3 hrs. (14:00-17:00)
2	One or More than One Correct Option	8	4 x 8 = 32	-2
3	Paragraph Type	4	4 x 4 = 16	-2
	MCQs	20	80

In the Day of Examination

Candidates will NOT be allowed to carry any electronic devices (e.g. mobile phones, smart phones, calculators, iPAD, tabs, electronic watches, etc.), abacus, slide rule, log books, study material of any type, geometry box, written or white (blank) paper/piece of paper, wallets, etc. to the examination hall. Only BLACK ball point pens, downloaded admit card and an original photo identity card are allowed to take inside the examination hall.

Use of Optical Response Sheet

The answer sheet of each paper of JEE (Advanced) 2016 is a machine-readable ORS. The ORS has two pages with the same lay-out. The first page of the ORS is machine readable. It is designed so as to leave impressions of the responses on the second page. Candidates should not separate or disturb the alignment of the two pages of the ORS at any stage and under any circumstance.

Candidates should use BLACK BALL POINT pen for darkening the bubbles. Candidate should write his/her Name, Roll No. and the name of centre and sign with pen in the boxes provided on the right part of ORS. She/he should darken the appropriate bubble under each digit of his/her Roll No. Candidates should apply adequate pressure to ensure that a proper impression is made on the second page of the ORS. The second page of the ORS will be handed over to the candidates by the invigilator at the end of the examination.

  

Registration Procedure

Candidates should register for appearing in JEE (Advanced) 2016. Registration is only through the online portal where detailed instructions will be provided. The procedure consists of three basic steps:

·         After login, provide the basic data including the choice of the language of question paper (English or Hindi) and the choices for the cities of examination.

·         Upload the scanned copies of all requisite documents.

·         Pay registration fee. Registration fee is NEITHER refundable NOR transferable.

Reservation of Seats

The category of a candidate as entered in the database, which will be made available by the JEE Apex Board [which conducts JEE (Main) 2016 examination], will be final and requests for change of category will NOT be entertained.

The categories and the extent of reservation are as follows:

·       Other Backward Classes-Non Creamy Layer (OBC-NCL): 27% of seats in every course. 

·         Scheduled Caste (SC): 15% of seats in every course. 

·         Scheduled Tribe (ST): 7.5% of seats in every course.

·      Persons with Disability (PwD): 3% of seats in every category, viz., GEN, OBC-NCL, SC and ST. Benefit would be given to those who have at least 40% impairment irrespective of the type of disability i.e., locomotor, visualor dyslexic. Leprosy-cured candidates who are otherwise fit to pursue the course are also included in this sub-category.

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·       Defence Service (DS): This category candidates are children of defence / paramilitary personnel killed or permanently disabled in action during war or peacetime operations. Two seats are available for preferential allotment in each Institute for DS category candidates. To avail of this preferential allotment, a DS category candidate must be in the Common Rank List of JEE (Advanced) 2016. DS category must be declared during JEE (Advanced) 2016 registration.

·       Foreign Nationals: Candidates who are NOT citizens of India (by birth or naturalized), including PIO and OCI card holders, at the time of registering for JEE (Advanced) 2016 are treated as foreign nationals. Seats allotted to foreign nationals are supernumerary with a cap of 10% of total number of seats in every course. Foreign nationals are outside the ambit of reservation of seats under the OBC-NCL, SC, ST and PwD categories as specified herein.

      De-reservation: Unfilled seats reserved under OBC-NCL category will be de-reserved to OPEN category seats. Whereas, seats remaining vacant under the SC and ST categories shall NOT be de-reserved to any category. The reservation for PwD candidates is horizontal and hence, unfilled seats will be de-reserved to the respective categories i.e., unfilled SC-PwD seats will be converted to the SC category seats and so on.

Participating Institutes

Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are institutions of national importance established through Acts of Parliament for fostering excellence in education. Over the years, IITs have created a world class educational platform that is dynamically sustained through quality teaching and internationally acclaimed research with excellent infrastructure and the best available minds. The faculty and alumni of IITs occupy key positions in academia and industry, both in India and abroad, and continue to make a considerable impact in all sections of the Society.

The Indian School of Mines (ISM), Dhanbad, is one of the oldest institutions in India and is known for its immense contributions towards society at large, and science and technology in particular.

At present, there are eighteen IITs located across the country.

S. No.        Institute Name                                               Place            Abbreviation

1.      Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University)  Varanasi          IIT (BHU)

2.      Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar                      Bhubaneswar   IITBBS

3.      Indian Institute of Technology Bombay                              Mumbai                      IITB*

4.      Indian Institute of Technology Delhi                                   New Delhi                  IITD*

5.      Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar                        Gandhinagar               IITGN

6.      Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati                             Guwahati                   IITG*

7.      Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad                          Hyderabad                 IITH

8.      Indian Institute of Technology Indore                                 Indore                        IITI

9.      Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur                               Jodhpur                     IITJ

10.  Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur                               Kanpur                       IITK*

11.  Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur                          Kharagpur                  IITKgp*

12.  Indian Institute of Technology Madras                              Chennai                       IITM*

13.  Indian Institute of Technology Mandi                                Mandi                         IITMandi

14.  Indian Institute of Technology Palakkad                           Palakkad                     IITPKD

15.  Indian Institute of Technology Patna                                 Patna                           IITP

16.  Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee                            Roorkee                      IITR*

17.  Indian Institute of Technology Ropar                                Ropar                          IITRPR

18.  Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati                             Tirupati                         IITTP

19.  Indian School of Mines                                                   Dhanbad                       ISM

* Zonal IITs which conduct JEE (Advanced) 2016 examination. (IITB*, IITD*, IITG*, IITK*, IITKgp*, IITM* &  IITR*)

Candidates should contact these (other) institutes directly for additional information.

·         Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru

·         Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (IISER), Bhopal

·         Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (IISER), Mohali

·         Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (IISER), Kolkata

·         Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune

·         Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (IISER), Thiruvananthapuram

·         Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST), Tiruvananthapuram

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

The primary objectives of IITs & ISM

To create an environment that encourages freedom of thought and pursuit of excellence, and inculcates the necessary vision and self-discipline to achieve excellence.

To build a solid foundation of scientific and technical knowledge and to prepare competent and motivated engineers and scientists.

To kindle an entrepreneurial spirit among the students.

To prepare the students to become outstanding professionals and contribute to nation-building.