IIT JEE 2013

The Indian Institutes of Technology Joint Entrance Examination (abbreviated IIT-JEE or simply JEE) is an annual college entrance examination in India. It is used as the sole admission criterion by the sixteen Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and Indian School of Mines. The examination is organised each year by one of the various IITs, using a round robin rotation pattern. It has a very low admission rate (about 1 in 50 in 2011).
                                                       
From 2013, IITJEE will be clubbed with AIEEE an Engineering Entrance Examination for NITs. Furthermore IITJEE will be held in two phases, Phase 1 will be called as JEE Main and the second stage of the test will be JEE Advanced.[1] Apart from the NITs, IIITs & IITs, the Indian Institute of Space and Technology has also announced that it will select students based on JEE Main.

According to the central board, JEE Main, formerly known as the All India Engineering Entrance Examination (AIEEE), have registered a record 14 lakh candidates for the 2013 exams. The registrations closed on December 24, 2013.
This is the highest ever registration for the test. This year the number has increased by nearly 2.8 lakh as compared to last year. Last year around 11.2 lakh candidates registered for the exam.
JEE (Advanced) will replace IIT-JEE and will be conducted by the IITs and only the top 1.5 lakh candidates of JEE (Main) merit list will be eligible for JEE (Advanced). JEE Advanced will be conducted on June 2 for the top 1.5 lakh (inclusive of all categories) students. For selection of students to NITs and CFTI, ranking will be given based on score of 60 per cent JEE Main + 40 per cent normalisation score of board results.
The JEE (Advanced) will have two objective type papers. Each paper will comprise of physics, chemistry and mathematics. Duration of each paper will be 3 hours.

New Admission Norms for IIT:

The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and the Union government have finally agreed to the new format of IIT entrance examination as suggested by the Joint Admission Board (JAB). The new format of exams will be implemented from 2013.
Joint Admission Board (JAB) of IIT Joint Entrance Examination (Advanced)- 2013 met on August 27, 2012 at IIT Delhi to discuss the forthcoming admission. The admission to the undergraduate programmes at the 16 IITs and ISMU, Dhanbad for the year 2013 will be based on a two-tier test. The first test called the JEE (Main), will be held during the month of April, 2013 (both offline and online). This test will be conducted by CBSE. The second test, called the JEE (Advanced), will be held on June 2, 2013 (only offline). Only 1,50,000 of the top rankers in JEE(Main), which includes students from all categories( GE,OBC(NCL), SC and ST ) will be eligible to appear in JEE(Advanced).
The JEE (Advanced)- 2013 will have two objective type papers. Each paper will consist of Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics. Duration of each paper will be 3-hours. Question papers will be in both English and Hindi. Admissions to IITs will be based only on category wise All India Rank (AIR) in JEE(Advanced) subject to the condition that such candidates are in the top 20 percentile of successful candidates of their Boards in applicable categories.
According to RK Shevgaonkar, director, IIT-Delhi, the aim of the new format is to make students perform well in their board exams without neglecting it and not get influenced by the coaching classes offering tutorials
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