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AIEEE JEE (Main) Exam

All India Engineering Entrance Examination (AIEEE), is an examination organized by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) in India.This national level competitive test is for admission to various under-graduate engineering and architecture courses in institutes accepting the AIEEE score, mainly 30 National Institutes of Technology and various private institutes offering engineering degreeThe examination is generally held on the last Sunday of April and results are announced in the last week of May or the first week of June. Candidates are ranked on an all-India basis and state basis. Thus, they have an All India Rank (AIR) and a State Rank (SR).Now, AIEEE will be known as JEE (Main) and IIT - JEE as JEE (Advanced).

New Rules of AIEEE and IIT

AIEEE will be known as JEE (Main) and IIT – JEE as JEE (Advanced) from 2013. The admission to Undergraduate Engineering Programs at NITs, IIITs, other centrally funded Technical Institutions, Institutions funded by several participating State Governments, and several other Institutions shall include the performance in the Joint Entrance Examination, JEE (Main). The JEE (Main) will also be an eligibility test for the JEE (Advanced), which the candidate has to take if he/she is aspiring for admission to the undergraduate programmes offered by the IITs.

Examionation Mode

The Paper-1 (described below) of JEE (Main) will be conducted in two separate modes i.e. Offline (Pen and Paper Based Examination) mode and Online (Computer Based Examination) mode. The Paper-2 of JEE (Main) will be conducted only in Pen and Paper based examination mode. A candidate will opt for either Pen and Paper Based or Computer Based examination modes for Paper-1 only.JEE (Main) – 2013 shall have two papers, Paper-1 and Paper-2. Candidates may take Paper-1, or Paper-2, or both as per the course(s) they are seeking admission to.

	Subjects	Question Types	Mode Of Exam
Paper 1	Physics, Chemistry & Mathematics	Objective type with equal weightage to Physics, Chemistry & Mathematics	Pen and Paper based OR Computer based
Paper 2	Mathematics – Part I Aptitude Test – Part II & Drawing Test – Part III	Objective type, Questions to test drawing aptitude	Only Pen and Paper based

For more details of JEE (Main), the candidates are advised to visit JEE(Main) website www.jeemain.nic.in. For information about JEE(Advanced), the candidates are advised to visit JEE(Advanced) website www.jee.iitd.ac.in.