CBSE JEE (Main) 2016 Eligibility : Joint Entrance Examination

Organisation : Central Board of Secondary Education (jeemain.nic.in)
Announcement : Eligibility for appearing in JEE (Main) – 2016
Entrance Exam : Joint Entrance Examination JEE (Main) – 2016

Eligibility : https://www.entrance.net.in/uploads/72-JEEMain2016Bulletin.pdf
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CBSE JEE Main Eligibility

Date of Birth :
Only those candidates whose date of birth falls on or after October 01, 1991 are eligible. Date of birth as recorded in Secondary Education Board/University certificate will only be considered

Related : CBSE JEE (Main) 2016 Application Procedure : www.entrance.net.in/19.html

However, in the case of Scheduled Caste (SC), Scheduled Tribe (ST) and Persons with Disabilities (PwD) candidates, upper age limit is relaxed by 5 years, i.e. SC, ST and PwD candidates who are born on or after October 01, 1986 are eligible.

Year of Appearance in Qualifying Examination (QE) :
Only those candidates who have passed their Class 12th Exam or any equivalent qualifying examination in 2014 or 2015; or those who are appearing in their Class 12th Exam or any equivalent qualifying examination in 2016 are eligible to appear in JEE (Main) – 2016. Candidates who passed Class 12th/Qualifying examination in 2013 or before as well as those who will appear in such examination in 2017 or later are not eligible to appear in JEE (Main) – 2016. Candidates who appeared in class 12th/equivalent qualifying Examinations in 2013, did not pass in 2013, but passed in 2014 are also not eligible to appear in JEE (Main) 2016.

Number of subjects in the Qualifying Examination (QE) :
Candidates must have taken at least five subjects in class 12th/ qualifying examination in order to be eligible for writing JEE (Main) – 2016. The candidates who have taken four subjects are not permitted to write JEE (Main) 2016 and if such candidates appear in JEE (Main) 2016 by furnishing wrong information, their rank/result will not be declared.

Number of Attempts :
The number of attempts which a candidate can avail at JEE (Main) shall be limited to 03 (three).
CANDIDATES ARE ALSO ADVISED TO NOTE AND VERIFY FOR THEMSELVES THE ELIGIBILITY FOR APPEARING IN JEE (ADVANCED) – 2016 AS WELL AS ELIGIBILITY FOR ADMISSION TO VARIOUS INSTITUTES. BEING ELIGIBLE TO WRITE JEE (Main) AND BY OBTAINING AN ALL INDIA RANK IN JEE (Main), A CANDIDATE DOES NOT AUTOMATICALLY BECOME ELIGIBLE FOR ADMISSION.

CANDIDATES SEEKING ADMISSION TO THE INSTITUTIONS IN THE STATES OF GUJARAT MADHYA PRADESH NAGALAND AND ODISHA, WHICH WERE EARLIER ADMITTING BASED ON THEIR STATE LEVEL EXAMINATION, ARE ALSO ADVISED TO VERIFY THEIR ELIGIBILITY AS PER CRITERIA LAID DOWN BY THESE STATE GOVERMENTS.

No. of Attempts and Age limit for the states of Madhya Pradesh and Odisha :
Since the states of Madhya Pradesh, Nagaland and Odisha have joined JEE (Main) system from 2014. The age limit, for admission to institutions in these states which were earlier admitting candidates based on their state level examinations, will be as per their past practice only. The number of attempts in such cases will also remain same as per their past practice. This will however be obviously not applicable for admission to IITs/NITs/IIITs/CFTIs.

Admission to NITs, IIITs, CFTIs, SFIs, State Engineering Colleges For Participating States & Other Participating Institutions :
Eligibility for participating through SEAT ALLOCATION BOARD :
Admission to NITs, IIITs and other institutions participating though Central Seat Allocation Board will be based on All India Rank as explained above in section 2.10 along with the criteria of subject combinations mentioned in the table below.

Subject combinations required in the qualifying examination for admission to B. E. / B. Tech. & B. Arch. / B.Planning Courses in NITs, IIITs, and other CFTIs shall be as under.

Course : B.E/B.TECH
Required Criteria based on Class 12th / Equivalent qualifying Examination : Passed 10+2 examination with Physics and Mathematics as compulsory subjects along with one of the Chemistry/Biotechnology/Biology/ Technical Vocational subject. Obtained at least 45% marks (40% in case of candidate belonging to reserved category) in each of the subjects.

Course : B.ARCH./B.PLANNING :
Required Criteria based on Class 12th / Equivalent qualifying Examination : Mathematics subject along with 50% marks in total including five subjects.

Eligibility for Admission to Other Institutions :
The above mentioned policy could also be adopted by other Centrally Funded Technical Institutions (CFTIs) and participating Institutions. In case a State opts to admit students in the engineering Colleges affiliated to state Universities, the State may prepare separate rank list based on criteria decided by them.

Eligibility Criteria For JEE (Advanced)  :

** The minimum academic qualification for appearing in JEE (Advanced) – 2016 is that the candidate must have passed in final examination of Class 12th or equivalent qualifying examination.
** Those appearing in these examinations in 2016 can also appear in JEE (Advanced) – 2016 provisionally.
** 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 Paper 1 (B. E./B. Tech.) of JEE (Main)-2016.
** Based on the performance in Paper 1 (B. E./B. Tech.) of JEE (Main)-2016, top 150000 candidates (including all categories) will be eligible to appear in JEE (Advanced)-2016.
** Admissions to IITs/ISM Dhanbad will be based only on category-wise All India Rank (AIR) in JEE (Advanced), subject to conditions as defined in JEE (Advanced) – 2016 website.
** A candidate can attempt JEE (Advanced) a maximum of two times in consecutive years irrespective of whether or not he/she passed the Qualifying Examination.
** Those who have attempted IIT-JEE/JEE (Advanced) in 2014 or earlier are NOT ELIGIBLE to appear in JEE (Advanced) – 2016.
** The candidate who had taken admission in any institute other than IITs & ISM Dhanbad in 2015 is eligible to appear in JEE (Advanced) – 2016 provided that the candidate satisfies other eligibility criteria.