JEE Main & UPSEE 2018 exam dates clash; students in a quandary!

Richa Kapoor, 13 Dec 2017, #UPSEE

Students are in a dilemma as the date of the UPSEE 2018 is clashing with the JEE Main 2018 online entrance exam which will also be conducted on April 15, 2018. Abdul Kalam Technical University (AKTU) announced that the UPSEE 2018 exam for the undergraduate engineering programmes which will be offered in different participating institutes of UPSEE will be held on April 15, 2018.

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It was on November 22, 2018 that the CBSE had announced that the JEE Main 2018 online exam will be held on April 15 & 16, 2018.

Date for UPSEE 2018 entrance exam

S. No	Event	Date
1.	UPSEE 2018	April 15, 2018

In 2017, the UPSEE exam was conducted on April 16, 2017 , while the JEE Main online exam took place on April 8 & 9, 2017.

According to reports in the media, AKTU Registrar OP Rai said, “We have announced the dates for undergraduate and postgraduate entrance examinations for the academic session 2018-19. Moreover, we have done this so that the affiliated institutes are kept in the loop and they don’t hold their respective semester/year-end or any other examinations or activity on the same dates.”

The UPSEE 2018 application form will be available tentatively in the third week of January 2018. For UPSEE 2017, it was mandatory for the students to have Aadhaar Card before they proceed to register for the UPSEE 2018 exam. Candidates are advised to have Aadhaar card ready before the announcement of UPSEE 2018 application form.

Candidates must meet the UPSEE 2018 eligibility . Students must have studied Maths & Physics as compulsory subjects and any one of the optional of the subjects which are given below in intermediate of UP board or 10+2 or equivalent:

Chemistry
Bio-Technology
Biology
Technical Vocational subject

There is no age limit for the candidate swho are aspiring to appear for the UPSEE 2018 entrance exam

USPEE 2018 will be conducted in offline mode for three hours. There are 150 questions which the candidates will have to answer and there is no negative marking. Fifty questions will be asked from each subject.