Offline JEE 2013 scheduled for April 7
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has officially announced that the All-india Engineering Entrance Exam (AIEEE) will be replaced by JEE (Main) and IIT JEE will make way for JEE (Advanced) from next year. Offline JEE Main 2013 will be conducted on April 7, 2013 while the online test will be conducted later that month. Read more
Timeline JEE: Ball by Ball on the CET
Candidates who want to take admission in B Arch/ B Planning courses at NITs, IIITs, DTU and other centrally funded technical institutes (CFTIs) will be able to give the second test (equivalent to Paper II of AIEEE) only in offline mode. This test will also be held on April 7, 2013.
Exam Format
JEE Main 2013 (equivalent to Paper 1 of AIEEE) will have one objective-type paper of three-hour duration. It will have three sections - Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics.
Paper II will also have one question paper of three hours, which will have three sections – Math, Aptitude Test, and Drawing Test, as has been the practice in AIEEE. Know more
Timing
Next year, CBSE exams are scheduled to finish by the end of March. Usually, AIEEE was conducted on the fourth Sunday of April. Since students will now have to appear for JEE Main on April 7, they will hardly have time to unwind after their Class XII board exams.
On the other hand, students who would have opted for IIT JEE, which was conducted in the month of April till now, would have more time on hand to prepare for JEE Advanced, which is scheduled to be conducted on June 2, 2013. See details
State Boards will now have to align their curriculum to CBSE to offer equal opportunity to their students to crack the new engineering entrance exam.
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