JoSAA 2026 Counselling: Round 1 Seat Allotment (June 13), Cutoff, Online Reporting, Fees, Schedule, Documents

Registration for JoSAA 2026 started on June 2. Admission to IITs is determined by JEE Advanced 2026 ranks, while NITs, IIEST, IIITs, and other GFTIs use JEE Main 2026 ranks for their allotments.

Candidates have to register for JoSAA to participate in JoSAA counselling for admission to IITs, NITs, IIEST, IIITs and Other-GFTIs.

NO. There will be no spot round of seat allocation at any of the IITs.

No, choosing the option “Freeze” in JoSAA counselling means that the candidate accepts the offered seat and is satisfied with the allotted course and college.

NO. Once you are allocated a seat of higher preference based on your float/slide option, your accepted seat from the earlier JoSAA counselling round will be automatically cancelled and you cannot get the previously allotted seat.

No you won't be able to edit your choice list after the deadline for JoSAA choice filling. You cannot change the order of your choices. Even adding or deleting any more course won't be possible after the deadline date for choice filling.

If you have accepted a seat in a certain round and want to be appear for a seat of higher preference in any Institute then you will have to choose the option of ‘Float’. This will help you to reappear for seat. If you are given a seat of higher preference in subsequent round of JoSAA seat allocation then your earlier accepted seat will be automatically cancelled and you have to accept newly allocated seat. If you do not get higher preference seat in a subsequent round, then you will continue in the already accepted seat and you will also be considered for seat allocation in any Institute (based on your preference in choice list) in the subsequent rounds if you continue with the ‘Float’ option.

Except in the last round of JoSAA seat allocation, you can change your option from float to slide/freeze and slide to freeze in the online portal.

Candidates can check JoSAA opening and closing ranks on the official website. They have to enter the details asked to check the list of courses and colleges based on the OR and CR of each counselling round.

Among the IITs, IIT Bombay has the highest admission cutoff for the Computer Science course, followed by IIT Delhi fo the same course. Among the NITs, the highest admission cutoff is for NIT Trichy for Computer Science and Engineering, followed by NIT Rourkela for the same course.

The Joint Seat Allocation Authority (JoSAA) publishes cutoffs as opening and closing ranks after each round of seat allotment.

The opening rank is the raank at which admisison to a particuloar course and college starts in a JoSAA round. The closing rank indicates the last rank at which the admission in a JoSAA round closed for a college and course.

The JoSAA opening and closing rank will vary in all rounds based on based on various categories of the candidates.

You MUST pay the seat acceptance fee and complete all the steps of the online reporting process in the same round of seat allocation for continuing with the JoSAA process to avail the seat in IITs or NIT+ system. Your allocated seat will be CANCELLED and you will no longer be able to participate in the subsequent rounds of seat allocation process (if any) if you do not complete all the steps of online reporting process including the payment of seat acceptance fee.

PAF is Partial Admission Fee, which is to be paid by candidates who get provisionally allotment in the NIT+System during the JoSAA rounds, provided the seat has not been cancelled or withdrawn. PAF can be paid using UPI/Credit card/Debit card/Internet Banking. Candidates who fail to remit the PAF will not be allotted a seat.

If a candidate has been allotted seat in the first round of JoSAA, only then the seat acceptance fee (SAF) has to be paid. SAF is to be paid to confirm the seat as soon as the seat is allotted. If the SAF is not paud, then the candidate will not be eligible for document verification.

Seat acceptance fee is INR 15,000 for candidates with the category tag SC, ST, GEN-PwD, GEN-EWS-PwD, OBC-NCL-PwD, SC-PwD or ST-PwD and INR 30,000 for all other candidates (the fee includes INR 5,000 JoSAA processing charges). The seat acceptance fee, excluding JoSAA processing charges of INR 5000, will be adjusted against the admission fee.

If you have already acceptd seat via the JoSAA counselling but want to withdraw the admission then you can do so. The withdraw option is made available starting from the 2nd round and up to the second last round of seat allocation.

If a candidate withdraws a seat, the candidate’s allotted seat will be cancelled and offered to another candidate in a subsequent round of counselling. The candidate withdrawing shall be excluded from the JoSAA process, which means the candidate shall not be considered for subsequent rounds of seat allocation (if any). 

Seat acceptance fee will be refunded to these candidates after deducting the withdrawal processing charges of INR 7000. Thus the candidate will forfeit the eligibility for admissions to any of the institutes through JoSAA.

JoSAA counselling is usually held in 5 or 6 rounds. The admission process for admissions in 23 IITs, 31 NITs, IIEST Shibpur, 26 IIITs and 40 Other-Government Funded Technical Institutes (Other-GFTIs) will be done by JoSAA in various rounds deending on various factors. In these rounds, candidates are allotted seats based on their JEE Main or JEE Advanced rank and preferences filled by them during registration. Candidates who are allotted seats have to either accept or float the seat.

Yes. Birth certificate is needed to prove age in JoSAA counselling. But if you do not have the birth certificate, then you can upload Aadhaar card or Class 10 marksheet/certificate.

During the process of document verification in JoSAA, if there is any mismatch between the document uploaded earlier by the candidate JEE Main registration site, JEE Advanced registration site and the document uploaded by the candidate on the JoSAA portal, the offer of admission will be withdrawn. The candidates shall be debarred from further rounds of seat allocation. Thus, the candidate will forfeit the eligibility for admissions to any of the institutes through JoSAA. The decision of JoSAA on this issue shall be final and binding.

Yes, digitally signed caste certificates will be considered as valid for JEE Main, Advanced and Jossa counselling as they are properly authenticated and meet the specified requirements.

If you do not complete all steps of online reporting process including seat acceptance fee payment. Your allocated seat will be CANCELLED and you won't be able to participate in subsequent rounds of JoSAA seat allocation process (if any).

Admission to IIIT D B.Tech courses is via the JAC Delhi counselling only. Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi (IIIT-Delhi) do not offer admission via JoSAA counselling. Therefore candidates have to apply for JAC Delhi counselling for B.Tech admission to IIIT D. Joint Admission Counseling Delhi conducts JAC Delhi counselling for admission to BE/B.Tech and B.Arch degree programmes offered by 5 technical universities/institutes of the Government of NCT, Delhi. These institutes/universities include Delhi Technological University (DTU), Indira Gandhi Delhi Technical University for Women (IGDTUW), Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi (IIIT-D), Delhi Skill and Entrepreneurship University (DSEU), and Netaji Subhas University of Technology (NSUT). .

Candidates do not need to present a domicile certificate in order to be admitted to IIT, NIT, or IIIT via JEE. The only university where admission is granted based on the Home State Quota is NIT. The state in which you take your 12th board test is used to determine admission, not your home state. When receiving JoSAA counselling, the domicile certificate is not necessary. The JEE score of the applicants determines their admission.

The institutes that participate in JoSAA counselling are:

1. 23 IITs
2. IISc Bangalore
3. 31 NITs
4. IIEST Shibpur
5. 26 IIITs
6. 40 Other-Government Funded Technical Institutes (Other-GFTIs)

1. Visit the official website of JoSAA.
2. Access the JoSAA login link.
3. Login with JEE Main application number and password
4. Inside the login portal, candidates can access the link to doenload the JoSAA seat allotment letter.
5. Download the letter and keep it safe.

A JEE rank of more than 70,000 is typically regarded as low, and applicants frequently give up on getting into the NITs and B.Tech programmes of their choice. The good news is that a number of universities, such as NITs and IIITs, accept JEE Main low scores up to 2,000,000. Based on the data from the previous year, NIT Mizoram has the lowest cutoff with a closing rank of 678406 for B.Tech. Civil Engineering (Gender-Neutral). It is followed by NIT Sikkim, which has a JEE Main rank of 639272 for B.Tech. EEE, and NIT Agartala, which has a JEE Main rank of 287950 for B.Tech. Biotech & Bio Chem Engineering. Therefore a rank of 9 Lacs can also have a chance of getting into colleges.

Yes. JoSAA counselling is for engineering courses primarily. However, seats in courses like B.Sc, B.Arch, and BPlan is also allotted via JoSAA counselling. Via JoSAA counselling candidates are allotted seat in varios UG engineering courses offered by the IITs, NITs, IIITs, and CFTIs. The allotment is done based on JEE advanced scores to the IITs and via JEE Main scores in other participating institutes. The courses offered via JoSAA counselling includes:

• BTech in various Engineering disciplines.
• BSc programs in Science.
• MSc programs.

Internal sliding is changing the branch within the same college. Therefore, during JoSAA special rounds, candidates who have already accepted a seat in an earlier round may be considered for upgradation based on their merit and the availability of seats.

JoSAA seat allotment letter is issued once the candidates have paid the seat accpetnace fee and the documents are verified in JoSAA counselling process.

No. You are only allowed to fill choices once before entering the first round of counselling and that choice list is final. Candidates are given only one chance to enter their choice, edit the choices, rearrange them before the choice filling deadline. All candidates have to save and lock their choices within the prescribed deadline. No more chances to fill.edit/rearrange the choices will be provided in the subsequent rounds of JoSAA counselling.

No, you cannot appear for JoSAA counselling with 350 marks in Class 12 UP board. The minimum percentage required to appear for JoSAA Counseling is 75% in class 12 with Physics, chemistry and mathematics as compulsory subjects. The candidates must have completed their class 12 from a recognised board.  A total of 350 marks out of 500 constitutes 70% of marks, which does not meet the minimum percentage required to appear for JoSAA counselling.

If you can not complete the JoSAA reporting process, you could go for the JEE (Advanced) the next year. You just need to fit all the conditions of eligibility.

Joint Seat Allocation Authority (JoSAA) conducts the counselling process for admission to IITs, IISc, NITs, IIITs, and CFTIs. This counselling is called JoSAA counselling.

The age limit will be applicable as mentioned in JEE Main/JEE Advanced brochure and official website. There is no seperate age limit criteria prescribed for JoSAA counselling.

Yes. Foreign nationals who wish to take admission to IITs have to apply for JoSAA counselling. The seats in the IITs will be alloted based on their JEE Advanced ranks. However, the all foreign nationals studying in any country including India or Indian nationals studying abroad have to apply for DASA counselling for admission to UG engineering and architecture courses offered at NITs, IIITs, SPAs and CFTIs. Admission will be based on JEE Main ranks as declared by NTA.

JoSAA application form correction facility is not provided once the candidates have submitted the form. Therefore it is recommended that the candidates crosscheck all the details filled in the fom before submitting the application form. If a candidate has made mistakes in the form, they can request for a change in the details during document verification step of the JoSAA counselling. Howwver, the details filled in the form will effect the seat allotment process and hence candidates must be midful about the details they fill in the application form before final submission.

The JoSAA application form is released online only on the official website - josaa.nic.in.

The JoSAA counselling registration link is made available on the official JoSAA counselling website, josaa.nic.in. 

If you wish to edit your choices after locking but before the choice filling deadline, you can do so by first submitting a request to unlock in the online JoSAA portal.

You can keep the currently allocated seat and opt out of further rounds of JoSAA counselling by selecting the "Freeze" option.

Candidates cannot make changes in the JoSAA choice filling list after the choice filling deadline is over.