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JEE EXAM CONDUCTED BY NTA

Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) is an engineering entrance examination conducted for admission to various engineering colleges in India. It is constituted by two different examinations –

JEE Main JEE Advanced

Courses

B.E/B.TECH

B.ARCH./B.PLANNING

A student can take a maximum of 3 attempts for JEE Main.

Courses

Qualification

Marks required

B.E/B.TECH

passed class XII with Physics and Mathematics as compulsory subjects along with one of the Chemistry/Biotechnology/Biology/ Technical Vocational subject

75% minimum in 12^th class or

top 20 percentile

B.ARCH./B.PLANNING

Passed 10+2 examination with Mathematics. 4-Any one of (Chemistry, Biology, Biotechnology, Technical Vocational Subject)

65% minimum in 12^th class

AGE CRITERIA

Candidates who are born on or after October 1, 1994 are eligible to apply for JEE Main 2019 exam.
Candidates belonging to Scheduled Caste (SC), Scheduled Tribe (ST) and Persons with Disabilities (PwD), must have been born on or after October 1, 1989 to be eligible for JEE Main. Candidates of these categories have been given a relaxation of 5 years.
Note: Date of birth will be considered as mentioned in the Secondary Education Board/ University certificate.

Syllabus and Exam pattern

The syllabus for JEE Main primary constitutes the topics covered in class 11 and 12 of the central boards such as CBSE, ISC and state boards. Approximately, 45% of the paper is prepared from class 11th syllabus and 55% from class 12th syllabus.

MODE OF EXAM	offline (pen and paper) as well as online (computer-based test)
Questions:	90 questions
Exam Duration:	3 hours
Language for Question Paper:	English or Hindi
Language for Question Paper: For Gujarat, Daman & Diu and Dadra and Nagar Haveli cities	(English, Hindi or Gujarati) students have to select the language during registration.
Marking Scheme:	+4 and -1 for a correct and an incorrect

JEE EXAM MAIN SCHEME

Subjects	Questions	Marks
Physics	30	120
Chemistry	30	120
Mathematics	30	120
Total	90	360

Chemistry Syllabus

Gaseous and liquid states
Atomic structure and chemical bonding
Energetics
Chemical equilibrium
Electrochemistry
Chemical kinetics
Solid state
Surface chemistry
Nuclear chemistry
Isolation/preparation and properties of the following non-metals
Preparation and properties of the following compounds
Transition elements (3d series)
Preparation and properties of the following compounds
Ores and minerals
Extractive metallurgy
Principles of qualitative analysis
Preparation, properties and reactions of alkanes
Reactions of benzene
Phenols
Carbohydrates
Amino acids and peptides
Practical organic chemistry

Mathematics Syllabus

Algebra
Matrices
Probability
Analytical geometry
Differential calculus
Integral calculus
Vectors

Physics Syllabus

Mechanics
Thermal physics
Electricity and magnetism
Optics
Modern physics

MARKING SCHEME

The number of questions in JEE Advanced are not fixed. They vary every year. So, maximum marks cannot be defined. From the previous years’ analysis, here we have inferred the marking scheme of JEE Advanced Pattern 2018. Candidates can check the expected marking scheme from the table below: