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ELIGIBILITY
FOR JEE-2010
Candidates must make sure that they satisfy all the eligibility
conditions given below for appearing in JEE-2010:
Date of Birth
The date of birth of candidates belonging to GE,OBC and DS
categories should be on or after October 1,1985. Whereas the date
of birth of those belonging to SC, ST and PD
categories should be on or after October 1,1980.
The date of birth as recorded in the high school/first Board/
Pre-University certificate will be accepted. If the certificate
does not mention the date of birth, a candidate must submit along
with the application, an authenticated document indicating the
date of birth.
Year of passing Qualifying
Examination (QE)
A candidate must have passed the QE for the first time, after
October 1, 2008 or in the year 2009 or will be appearing in 2010.
Those who are going to appear in the QE later than October 1, 2010
are not eligible to apply for JEE-2010.
The qualifying examinations (QE) are listed
below:
i) The final examination of the 10+2 system, conducted by any
recognized central / state Board, such as Central Board of
Secondary Education, New Delhi; Council for Indian School
Certificate Examination, New Delhi; etc.
ii) Intermediate or two-year Pre-University examination conducted
by a recognized Board / University.
iii) Final examination of the two-year course of the Joint
Services Wing of the National Defence Academy.
iv) General Certificate Education (GCE) examination
(London/Cambridge/Sri Lanka) at the Advanced (A) level.
v) High School Certificate Examination of the Cambridge University
or International Baccalaureate Diploma of the International
Baccalaureate Office, Geneva.
vi) Any Public School/Board/University examination in India or in
any foreign country recognized as equivalent to the 10+2 system by
the Association of Indian Universities (AIU).
vii) H.S.C. vocational examination.
viii) Senior Secondary School Examination conducted by the
National Institute of Open Schooling with a minimum of five
subjects.
ix) 3 or 4 year Diploma recognized by AICTE or a state Board of
technical education. In case the relevant qualifying examination
is not a public examination, the candidate must have passed at
least one public (Board or Pre-University) examination at an
earlier level.
Minimum Percentage of Marks in
QE
Candidates belonging to GE, OBC and DS categories must secure at
least 60% marks in aggregate in their QE. Whereas, those belonging
to SC, ST and PD categories must secure at least 55% marks in
aggregate in the QE.
The percentage of marks awarded by the Board will be treated as
final. If the Board does not award the percentage of marks, it
will be calculated based on the marks obtained in all subjects
listed in the mark sheet. If any Board awards only letter grades
without providing an equivalent percentage of marks on the grade
sheet, the candidate should obtain a certificate from the Board
specifying the equivalent marks, and submit it at the time of
counselling/ admission. In case such a certificate is not provided
then the final decision rests with the Joint Implementation
Committee of JEE-2010.
4. Important Points to note
(i) One can attempt JEE only twice, in consecutive years. That
means one should have attempted JEE for the first time in 2009 or
will be appearing in 2010.
(ii) Those who have accepted admission after qualifying in JEE in
earlier years by paying full fees at any of the IITs, IT-BHU,
Varanasi or ISM, Dhanbad, are NOT ELIGIBLE to write JEE at all
irrespective of whether or not they joined in any of the
programmes.
(iii) The year of passing the Qualifying Examination is the year
in which the candidate has passed, for the first time, any of the
examinations listed above, irrespective of the minimum percentage
marks secured.
(iv) The offer of admission is subject to verification of original
certificates/ documents at the time of admission. If any candidate
is found ineligible at a later date even after admission to an
Institute, his/ her admission will be cancelled automatically.
(iv) If a candidate is expecting the results of the QE in 2010,
his/her admission will only be provisional until he/she submits
the relevant documents. The admission stands cancelled if the
documents are not submitted in original to the concerned institute
before September 30,2010.
(v) If a candidate has passed any of the examinations, listed in
Sub-section III.2, before October 1,2008, he/she is not eligible
to appear in JEE-2010.
(vi) If a Board invariably declares the results of the QE late
(only after September 30, every year), the candidate is advised to
attempt JEE in 2011 or later.
(vii) The decision of the Joint Admission Board of JEE-2010
regarding the eligibility of any applicant shall be final.
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