JEE Main 2014: What’s new in counselling procedure

JEE Main 2014

JEE Main 2014 All India Ranks(AIRs) have now been declared (updated on July 8) and with that, the counselling process too will commence soon. According to the official website of Central Seat Allocation Board(CSAB), the information regarding to the final schedule of counselling along with the flow chart of admission procedure will be updated soon. Click here to read more!

Contrary to the year 2013, this year a few important changes have been made to this year’s counseling process. The changes have been introduced with an aim to make the counseling and admission process  candidate friendly along with reducing the  anxiety and inconvenience associated with admissions.

To be conducted online, this year's counselling process would involve four rounds of seat allotment instead of three rounds of seat allotment as  compared to last year, followed by a spot admission round. This modification will help minimize the gap between the date of completion of counseling process and the  date of starting of classes.

Also, there is a provision for fresh registration for candidates before the  fourth and spot round for those who did not register before the first round. Candidates will be  paying their initial fees through electronic fee payment system only, i.e. e-Challan, credit/debit  card, netbanking etc.

Candidates have the choice to choose the bank for initial fees payment as  per their convenience. To facilitate counseling process, Reporting/Help Centers have been set  up across the length and breadth of the country. Candidates are advised to choose the  Reporting/Help Centre as per their convenience. 

Besides these, an attempt is being made to provide an multilingual online web/power point/youtube based tutorial to explain the online process, to enable all the eligible candidates to make use of the online process effectively.