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a year agoContributor-Level 10
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.
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a year agoContributor-Level 10
The schedule for JoSAA 2026 will be announced after the result of JEE Main 2026 session 2.
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a year agoContributor-Level 10
The JoSAA 2026 choice filling window will open with the registration window in June 2026. Candidates will be able to register and then fill the choices of courses and colleges based on their JEE Main/Advanced ranks and category.
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a year agoContributor-Level 10
JoSAA 2026 counselling portal will open in June 2026. Candidates will be able to register for the counselling based on JEE Main/JEE Advanced ranks. The official JoSAA portal is hosted at josaa.nic.in.
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a year agoContributor-Level 10
Documents for Online Reporting / Registration
The following documents must be uploaded by candidates for online reporting and registration, whether for the NIT+ system or admission to IITs.
- General Mandatory Documents
- Proof of Date of Birth: Class X Mark Sheet/Certificate, Aadhaar Card, or Birth Certificate.
- Academic Records: Class XII Mark Sheet and Certificate (Qualifying Examination). (Note: For IIT admissions, usually only the Class XII Mark Sheet is specified, but the certificate is generally required for the NIT+ system.)
- Bank Details: A crossed bank cheque copy or an image of your passbook showing account details (for refund purposes
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a year agoContributor-Level 10
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.
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a year agoContributor-Level 10
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.
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a year agoContributor-Level 10
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.
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a year agoContributor-Level 10
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.
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a year agoContributor-Level 10
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
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