2.24 lakh students to qualify for JEE Advanced 2018

The Joint Admission Board (JAB) has increased the number of seats for Joint Entrance Examination (Advanced) May 2018.

As per the official website, "Candidates should be among the top 2,24,000 (including all categories) by scoring positive marks in Paper 1 of JEE (Main) 2018."

Earlier, 2,20,000 candidates were eligible for the exam.

Reasons for increasing the number of seats:

• It will help to avoid vacancy in IITs

• "Growing vacancy in IITs is a big concern. While the demand for popular courses seems to be growing with each passing year, filling vacant seats for unpopular courses is becoming an uphill task. The problem persists at various institutes, including Bombay, Delhi and Kharagpur," a senior official from IIT-Bombay told HT

• "This year too, many IITs are hoping to increase their intake capacity. The final number will be revealed later," he added further.

Organising institute:

IIT Kanpur is the organising institute of JEE (Advanced) 2018.

About the exam:

• The Joint Entrance Examination (Advanced) 2018 will be conducted by the IITs

• The exam is scheduled to be held on May 20, 2018

• The entire JEE (Advanced) 2018 Examination will be conducted in fully computer based test mode

• The exam consists of two papers, Paper 1 and Paper 2, each of three hours' duration, and will be held in two sessions. Both the papers are compulsory

Selection procedure:

The performance of a candidate in this examination will form the basis for admission to the Bachelor's, integrated Master's and dual degree programmes (entry at the 10+2 level) in all the IITs.