Engineering

Candidate must be either 17 years of age or attain the age at the time of admission to apply for BTech programme at SBB, D Y Patil. The duration of the B. Tech programme is four year. Candidate must have passed Class 12 or equivalent examination from a recognised board, securing minimum 50% aggregate of all subjects. English as a subject is compulsory. 

Candidates can access the JEE Advanced question papers on the official website of JEE Advanced - jeeadv.ac.in. The official website also hosts the previous year JEE Advanced question paper PDFs for both paper 1 and paper 2 of the exam.

Yes. There are two types of cutoff in JEE Advanced: Sectional cutoff and Overall cut off. Sectional cutoff means minimum marks needed in physics, chemistry and maths. Overall cutoff is the minimum marks needed in total to pass exam. In 2025, the sectional JEE Advanced cutoff was 5.83% (7 marks) to be included in the common rank list (CRL). The same in 2024 was 8.68% (10 marks).On the other hand overall cutoff in 2025 was 20.56% (74 marks).  In 2024, it was 30.34% (109 marks).

JEE Advanced is a challenging exam with a dynamic exam pattern. To cope with the dynamic nature of the exam pattern, it is advisable for the candiates to opt for both types of the JEE Advanced mock tests - full-length as well as sectional. The full length mock tests will help the candidates analyse their speed, time manegement and overall preparation for the exam. Whereas the sectional mocktests will give the candidates a more detailed analysis of their exam preparaion as they can understand their preparation level in each of the subject individually.

JEE Advanced 2025 was conducted by IIT Kanpur. In 2026, IIT Roorkee will hold the exam, and in 2027, IIT Delhi will be the organising institute.

JEE Advanced is considered one of the toughest exams in the world. With around 1.9 lakh candidates appearing for the exam on average, the pass percentage stands at 26% to 27%. The previous year's data for JEE Advanced pass percentage is given below:

Check below the number of candidates that took JEE Advanced paper 1 and paper 2 over the past few years:

• 2025 - 1,80,422 candidates took the exam
• 2024 - 1,80,200 candidates took the exam
• 2023 - 1,80,372 candidates took the exam
• 2022 - 11,55,538 candidates took the exam
• 2021 - 1,41,699 candidates took the exam
• 2020 - 1,50,838 candidates took the exam
• 2019 - 1,61,319 candidates took the exam
• 2018 - 11,55,158 candidates took the exam

NIST allows direct admission to the third semester of its BTech programme in all specialisations. The admission criteria for lateral entry is as per the JEE norms for lateral entry. Candidates willing to take lateral entry admission to NIST BTech programme must be eligible as per the following eligibility criteria:

• A Diploma of a minimum of three years, with at least 45% marks (40% in case of candidates belonging to SC/ST category)

or

• A BSc degree from a UGC-recognised university, with at least 45% marks (40% in case of candidates belonging to reserved category) and a pass in Class 12 with Mathematics as a subject

NIST Berhampur BTech tuition fee ranges between INR 4.28 lakh and INR 6.48 lakh. The exact fee amount varies across the BTech specialisations available at the institute. The following table presents the specialisation-wise BTech at NIST:

NOTE: The fee amount is based on the annual fee mentioned on the official website of the institute/sanctioning body. It is still subject to change and hence, is indicative.