JoSAA Choice Filling 2026 (Closed): Link, How to Fill JoSAA Counselling Choices

Candidates must be very careful while filling out the choices. The choices once locked cannot be changed throughout the JoSAA counselling rounds. The link to fill choices in JoSAA counselling 2026 is vailable below:

• JoSAA 2026 counselling choice filling link

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JoSAA choice filling means filling of preferences for courses and colleges (preferences for IITs, NITs, IIITs, and GFTIs) that the candidate wants to be considered for admission. To select the courses and colleges, candidates have to make sure that they use the previous year's cutoff trends and get an estimate of which course and college have the highest chances of getting into, as per their JEE Main/JEE Advanced rank.

Candidates are displayed a wide range of courses and college options within the JoSAA portal. They have to select the course and college combination and arrange them in order of preference. While allocating the seat, the first preference will be considered, and if the rank of the candidate allows, then the first preference will be allotted, or else the second preference will be considered. In this way, the seat allocation is done. Therefore, it is critical to fill in the choices wisely, as choice filling opens only once with the registration process.

Although there is no restriction on how many choices the candidates can fill, it is highly recommended that the candidaes only fill those choices that they want to be considered for admission and not random choices.

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Check JoSAA choice filling process below:

Login to JoSAA Portal - Using JEE Main 2026 application number and password, candidates have to login to the JoSAA 2026 portal.

Access JoSAA Choice Filling Link: Once logged in, candidates can check the link for choice filling. Click the link and verify using the OTP sent to the registered mobile number.

Adding and Arranging the Choices: Once the OTP is verified, candidates can check the following details on their screen:

1. Total number of choices available for the candidate
2. List of choices available
3. Search bar to search and filter the institutes and courses

From the available list of choices, candidates can use the “add” button to add the choices to their choice list. When the candidate clicks on the “add” button against the choice, it gets added to the list of choices candidates have to submit and can be checked on the right-hand side of the screen.

Candidates can add the choices in order of their preference, or they can add the choices in random order and arrange the choices after adding them to their list. The candidates can check the Institute name, course name and the choice number (order number of the choice) in the list. Other than that, against each choice, candidates can check the option for “remove”, “up” and “down”.

• ❌ Remove: This command will remove a choice from the list.
• ⬆️ Up: This command will move a choice one step above.
• ⬇️ Down: This command will move a choice one step down.

Using the above commands, candidates can rearrange their choices as many times as they want before the JoSAA choice locking deadline.

Saving the Choices - Candidates must keep saving the choices. If they don't have the choice, any changes made to the list of choices will disappear.

Locking the Choice - Once the candidates are one hundred per cent sure of the choices they have filled and their order, they can proceed to lock their choices as per the JoSAA schedule.

Printing the Choice List - Candidates can print the list of their JoSAA choice filling list for future reference.

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Once the candidates have filled the choices, they are allowed to manage them. This means candidates will be allowed to remove and rearrange their choices as many times as they want before the JoSAA choice locking date.

Candidates can rearrange their choices by changing the choice number against the choices. The choices can also be interchanged from one option to the other easily, or candidates can select multiple choices at once for bulk deletion.

The choices can be managed until the choice filling last date as per the JoSAA schedule. Once the choices are locked and submitted as per the schedule, the choices cannot be changed throughout the counselling process. Seat allotment in each JoSAA counselling round will be based on the choices filled by the candidates.

After the JoSAA choice filling, the JoSAA seat allotment result is issued. Based on the choices filled by the candidates, their ranks and their category, seats across the institutions are allotted in each counselling round.

To check the JoSAA 2026 seat allotment result, candidates have to use their JEE Main 2026 application number and JoSAA 2026 password. Once the seat is allotted, candidates have to accept the seat, and they can choose one of the options: 'Freeze', 'Slide', or 'Float'. Seat allotment results have to be checked online only, and no separate notification about the seat allotment is sent to the candidates via mail or other means.

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