The baton to conduct the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Advanced 2017 has been passed on from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati to IIT Madras. JEE Advanced is the gateway to secure admission in India’s premier engineering institutes. An official from IIT Guwahati, organising institute for JEE Advanced 2016, confirmed the development. The official […]

The Joint Admission Board (JAB) has issued a proposal to the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) for scraping the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Mains for foreign nationals who want to secure a seat at India’s prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs). A JAB official said, “Candidates who are not OCI or PIO (Overseas Citizenship […]

              Sharvik Mittal at the 48 International Chemistry Olympiad, Tbilisi, Georgia ​ Kota coaching institutes have excelled at the 48 International Chemistry Olympiad (IChO) 2016 held at Tbilisi, Georgia with Utkarsh Gupta of Resonance Coaching Institute clinching the Gold Medal and Sharvik Mittal of Allen Career winning the Silver […]

The preparatory course schedule released by JEE Advanced 2016 today, July 18, has listed the institutes that will be hosting the course for the next year. As per the list, reporting to host centres will commence in the first week of August, about the same time when first year lectures will start in IITs. This […]

Seat allocations for Preparatory Courses are simultaneously taking place with the Joint Seat Allocation Authority (JoSAA) allotment rounds. As per the Joint Admission Board (JAB) records, so far 105 seats have been allocated in the 2016 Preparatory Courses. All the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and Indian School of Mines (ISM) run a year-long Preparatory […]

The Joint Seat Allocation Authority (JoSAA) has allotted six supernumerary seats so far, two in Computer Science and Engineering branch at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Mumbai and IIT Delhi each, one in Mathematics and Computing at IIT Kharagpur and one in Chemical Engineering at IIT Patna. When the allotted seats are more than […]

Of all the IITs and ISM, only IIT Kharagpur (IIT-Kgp) and IIT Roorkee (IIT-R) will provide transportation facility to the new entrants from city’s railway station and bus stand to the institute. Date of Reporting for both, IIT-Kgp, and IIT-R is July 21, 2016, and both the institutes will provide transportation from July 20. The […]

Approximately 185 category students enrolled for a preparatory course at 19 IITs in the year 2015. What is a Preparatory course? It is structured to prepare students to pursue the academic programme to which they wish to been allocated at respective IITs.  This one year long course is done on the basis of relaxed admission […]

The number of vacant seats in the National Institutes of Technology (NITs) during the ongoing process of seat allocation has seen an increase.  The Joint Seat Allocation Authority (JoSAA) in an earlier statement had said that after the first round, about 78 seats in NITs – Jalandhar, Mizoram, Sikkim, Calicut, and Nagaland were vacant. This […]

The first round of seat allocation conducted by JoSAA for admission to IITs, NITs, IIITs and GFTIs will come to an end today, July 5, at 5 pm. None of the 10,575 seats in IITs made available for admission this year are vacant according to Joint Seat Allocation Authority (JoSAA).  Prof K V Krishna, Chairman, JEE […]