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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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a year agoContributor-Level 10
You can keep the currently allocated seat and opt out of further rounds of JoSAA counselling by selecting the "Freeze" option.
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a year agoContributor-Level 10
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.
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a year agoContributor-Level 10
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.
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