Engineering

After the declaration of GATE result, the qualified candidates will have to participate in counselling process. It must be noted that, IIT Guwahati does not conduct GATE counselling. 

Admission counselling is done by COAP and CCMT portals. 

• Common Offer Acceptance Portal (COAP) is the centralised portal for counselling used by IITs and IISc that allow GATE qualified candidates to view and accept choices for M.Tech or PSU jobs based on their scores. 

• On the other hand, CCMT (Centralised counselling for MTech/MArch/M.Plan) portal used for offering M.Tech admission to NITs, IIITs, and GFTIs. 

Candidates who are appearing in their class 12 exam in 2026 need not provide their mark details while filling the JEE advanced application form. They just need to fill their year of passing class 12 year as 2026. However, they must ensure to score minimum 75% marks in order to be eligibile for admission in IITs.

To be honest, both fields are poles apart. So, it would be unfair to compare them. Their focus, curriculum, career prospects, working fields, everything is different. 

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The last date to apply for IIT JEE Adv 2026 was May 5. The application form was available online in the website jeeadv.ac.in. The registration started on April 6 for foreign candidates and April 23 for Indian students.

If you're beginning the preparation after JEE Main session 1 exam, it will be difficult/almost impossible to prepare for JEE Advanced. However, if you've prepared for IIT JEE in previous months and has covered the syllabus, you can manage to revise the important topics in one month. 

As per the JEE Advanced 2026 eligibility criteria, general/OBC-NCL/EWS candidates must be born on or after October 1, 2001 in order to apply for the exam. Candidates from SC, ST, and PwD category get a 5-year relaxation hence they must be born on or after October 1, 1996.

Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati released GATE provisional answer key on February 22. The provisional answer key include answers created by authorities. With help of answer key, students were able to tally their responses and calculate probable scores and use GATE college predictor to check their admission chances. 

The JEE Advanced exam is one of the toughest exams in the world. In 2026, the exam is organised by IIT Roorkee, which is know to set difficult question paper. Candidates preparing for JEE Advanced exam must train themselves to solve the hardest questions of Physics, Mathematics and Chemistry. 

For the graduate courses of NC State University, the annual tuition fee is USD 35,002 (Around INR 32 lakh). The living expenses for the PG courses are-

IIT JEE eligibility criteria 2026 has been released at the official website jeeadv.ac.in. Candidates must note that as per the details mentioned in the information brochure, only two attempts are allowed for JEE Advanced 2026.