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IIT Delhi Announced JEE Advanced Date, New Website, Exam to be Conducted in USA also

Update on: 08 Nov 2019, 12:50 PM

JEE Advanced 2020 date to be Pinned. Indian Institute of Delhi (IIT-D) announced that JEE Advanced 2020 will be conducted on 17th May as a computer-based test for the admission to all 23 IITs. The detailed notification will be released in due course.

IIT Delhi has also launched a new website of the JEE Advanced 2020 examination. The new website URL for JEE Advanced 2020 is jeeadv.ac.in. Students interested to appear for the JEE Advanced 2020 examination conducted by IIT Delhi can now access the new website for details related to the examination.

USA as an Exam Centre

In a meeting held on 15th September IIT Joint Admission Board several key decisions for JEE advanced were taken. One of which is to conduct JEE Advanced exam, for the first time ever, in United States also. For this purpose, an examination centre will be set up in San Francisco area.

According to the report, Prof V Ramgopal Rao, Director, IIT Delhi, said, “JEE exam is now conducted in five countries worldwide and we have added USA to the list. US has benefitted significantly by the presence of a large number of IIT alumni there and there is considerable awareness in the US about IITs. Conducting JEE in the Bay area is a logical thing to do.”

In 2019, JEE advanced were conducted in Dubai (UAE), Dhaka (Bangladesh), Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), Kathmandu (Nepal), Singapore and Colombo (Sri Lanka).

However, in 2020, the IIT JAB has decided discontinued centres of Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) and Colombo (Sri Lanka), quoting absence of aspirants during past year examinations.

At a Glance – JEE Advanced 2020

Increase in the number of Qualifiers in JEE Advanced 2020

Another big change that will definitely be in favour of students is that from 2020 onwards top 2,50,000 rankers of JEE Main 2020 will be allowed to appear in JEE Advanced. There is an increase of 10,000 takers. Earlier in 2019, this number was 2,40,000. This includes candidates from all categories such as General, Schedule Caste (SC), Schedule Tribe (ST) and Other Backward Class (OBC).

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Change in Time Schedule of JEE Advanced 2020

On 17th May, the first paper of JEE Advanced is scheduled from 9.00 a.m. to 12 p.m. (IST). The second paper will be conducted on the same day in the second shift starting from 2.30 p.m. to 5.30 p.m. (IST). Earlier it used to start at 2.00 p.m.

According to Prof Siddharth Pandey, Organizing Chairman, JEE (Advanced) 2020, “Paper 2 that used to start at 2 p.m. earlier, is now scheduled to start at 2:30 pm. This is to allow students, especially the PwD candidates, more time between the two papers. This will also help in conducting biometric verification at the centers in timely manner.”

Eligibility Criteria for JEE Advanced 2020

  • Candidates should have appeared and qualified the JEE Main 2020 exam with minimum cutoff. Additionally, he must be in list of top 250,000 candidates.
  • As per the latest information candidates can appear in JEE Advanced 2020 irrespective of their age
  • Candidates can appear for JEE Advanced for a maximum of two attempts in two consecutive years.
  • Candidate must have appeared in Class 12 either in 2019 or 2020
  • Candidates who have earlier got admissions in any IIT are not allowed, irrespective of the status of whether pursuing or left the course.

Must read if you appeared in JEE Advanced 2019 and want to improve your score this year.:  5 Vital Study Tips To Be a Topper from a Dropper-JEE Repeaters

JEE Advanced 2019 Stats

Every year, the National Testing Agency (NTA) organises JEE Main while one of the 23 IITs organises JEE Advanced under the guidance of IIT JAB. At international level, JEE Advanced is considered as one of the most challenging engineering admission tests.

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In 2019, IIT Roorkee was the organizing institute for JEE Advanced in which a total number of 161,319 candidates had appeared in both papers 1 and 2. The qualify percentage was ~24.

Check JEE Advanced 2019 Results, Cutoff, rank list, and score : Click Here

Out of the total 38,705 qualified 5,356 were females. As of now, there are 23 operational IITs across the country which offers a total of 11,032 seats in the country.

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