JEE Advanced Counselling and Seat Allotment 2018 – Joint Seat Allocation Authority or JoSAA authorities has started the counselling and seat allotment for JEE Advanced 2018 from June 15 onwards. Candidates who are eligible and have qualified in JEE Advanced entrance exam will be required to register to be able to participate in the counselling procedure. It is to be noted that JEE Advanced counselling and seat allotment 2018 will be conducted in seven consecutive rounds. The process of JEE Advanced 2018 counselling and seat allotment includes registration, counselling, choice filling, choice locking of preferred colleges and engineering courses, allotment of seats, reporting to allotted colleges and getting provisional admission in these allotted colleges. For registration, candidates will have to provide their JEE Advanced 2018 roll number, registration number, date of birth and password. After registring successfully, candidates will be required to fill and lock their choice of colleges and courses online in the order of their preferences. On the basis of their filled and locked choices and availability of seats, candidates will be allotted seats. To accept the allotted seats, candidates will have to pay the seat acceptance fee and physically report to the respective reporting centre for document verification purpose. There will be no withdrawal option in the last round of seat acceptance of JEE Advanced.

Latest: JoSAA 2018 Registrations have started on June 15, 2018 . JEE Advanced 2018 Extended merit list released. To check - Click Here 

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Eligibility Criteria for JEE Advanced Counselling and Seat Allotment 2018

• In order to participate in JEE Advanced 2018 counselling, the examinees need to have secured the acceptable rank in JEE Advanced 2018.

• They are required to have obtained at least 75% aggregate marks in class 12th or equivalent board exam. For candidates belonging to SC, ST and PwD categories, the aggregate marks required for admission is 65%.

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• For admission to IITs, the candidates must be within the category-wise top 20 percentile of successful candidates in their respective class 12th or equivalent board exam.

JEE Advanced Merit List 2018

IIT Kanpur has come out with an extended merit list of JEE Advanced on June 14 following directions given by MHRD.  The qualifying cutoff of JEE Advanced has also been reduced to acommodate the additional candidates in the extended list. Earlier the first merit list was published on June 10.

JEE Advanced 2018 Counselling and Seat Allotment Procedure

Step 1 – JEE Advanced 2018 Online Registration

• The registration for JEE Advanced 2018 Counselling and Seat Allotment commences from June 15, 2018.

• Enter JEE Advanced 2018 Roll Number (as in JEE Advanced Admit Card 2018)

• JEE Advanced Registration Number (as in JEE Advanced Admit Card 2018)

• Date of Birth - (as in JEE Advanced Admit Card 2018)

• Password - (in 8 to 15 characters)

• Click on confirm password

Important: The candidates must jot down User ID (Registration Number) and password set by them and generated by the system.

Step 2 – JEE Advanced Online Choice Filling 2018

• During choice filling, log in using your User ID (Registration Number), JEE Advanced 2018 Roll Number and Password.

• Fill the choices according to your their preferences of branches and institutes.

• Applicants can make changes in terms of editing, reordering their choices and add new choices till the final locking.

• They must lock their choices before the last date, or else their choices will be locked by default. (Candidates are advised to select and lock as many choices as possible for programmes).

• Counselling and Seat Allotment of JEE Advanced 2018 will be held based on examinees All India Ranks (AIRs).

• For admission to programmes like Mining Engineering and Mining Machinery Engineering and other related courses, the candidates have to fulfil the additional fitness and health parameters. 

Step 3 – JEE Advanced 2018 Online Seat Allotment and Reporting

• After Online choice filling, the participating candidates will be allotted seats for admissions to IITs. 

• JEE Advanced 2018 counselling and seat allotment will be conducted in 7 rounds.

• To check their allotted seats, the candidates will have to log in by entering their User ID (Registration Number), JEE Advanced 2018 Roll Number and Password to check their Seat Allotment.

• At the end of every round or counselling/seat allotment, the candidates will be required to check the seat allotment result. (Note: Seat allocation may change due to upgradation. Thus, the candidates must be careful).

• The online seat allotment procedure also requires the candidates to get the soft copy of their category certificates (SC/ST/OBC-NCL – uploaded at the time of registration) verified. In case found unacceptable, such candidates will be considered as GEN only if their score in the Paper-1 of JEE Main 2018 is above the declared cutoff marks.

• In order to provisionally freeze/ book their allotted seats after the allotment has happened, the candidates will have to pay the required fee online.

• Further, to claim their allotted seat and to book it for the academic year, candidates must report to the allotted institution with the prescribed documents.

Documents to be produced during JEE Advanced 2018 Reporting for verification

Candidates have to carry the following documents in original along with one attested copy of each during the physical verification for taking provisional admission

• JEE Advanced 2018 Seat Allotment letter from JoSAA portal

• JEE Advanced 2018 Original Admit card

• JEE Advanced 2018 Application Form (duly filled)

• Duly filled Medical Examination Report

• Proof of Date of Birth: Class X/HSC/Birth Certificate/Any other certificate as proof of date of birth

• Class XII/SSC/Equivalent exam Mark sheet and Certificate of passing

• Category Certificate (OBC (NCL)/SC/ST/PwD/DS) issued by the competent authority

• For foreign nationals: Attested photocopy of the page in the passport containing name, photo and nationality

JEE Advanced 2018 Counselling Schedule

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