75% Marks in 12th Board are Mandatory Only for Admission in IIT, NIT
More than 14 lakh students are appearing in JEE Main 2024, which is organized for admission to prestigious engineering institutes like IITs and NITs. Even after cracking JEE, thousands of students are not able to take admission in these coveted engineering institutes for not fulfilling the board eligibility.
Due to lack of information, such students are deprived of admission even in those renowned institutes of the country where the board eligibility is not the same as for admission in IIT and NIT.
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Board eligibility is not required to appear in JEE, but for admission in IITs and NITs. The Union Ministry of Education has set a board eligibility of 75 percent, which has been in place for many years. Due to this eligibility, many students shy away from appearing in JEE.
Apart from IIT-NIT, there are many prestigious and famous engineering institutes in the country, where admission can be obtained even if the board eligibility is less than 75 percent. It means that students can seek admission in these engineering institutes despite scoring less than 75 percent marks in class 12 board examinations.
The admission process of many of these institutes is based on the rank of JEE-Main and JEE Advanced. Besides, there are many engineering institutes which have their own entrance examinations for admission.
There are many big engineering institutes in the country like Manipal Mangaluru, VIT Vellore, Amrita Chennai, SRM Chennai, Kalinga Bhubaneswar, PES Bangalore, Shiv Nadar Noida, Narsee Monjee Institute Mumbai, ISI Kolkata, CMI Chennai, NIFT Delhi, MIT Pune, UPES Dehradun, LPU, Chitkara Chandigarh, Punjab, Bennett Noida, QSAT Kerala, BVP Pune, Banasthali Vidyapeeth etc.,
Where average board eligibility is 60 percent in Physics, Chemistry, Maths. Along with this, options are available for admission into top engineering institutes of Bangalore through COMEDK entrance exam for which the board eligibility is less than 60 percent.
Not only this, the board eligibility for admission to some courses of IIIT Hyderabad is only 12th pass. Even for admission to engineering institutes through CUET, which was started two years ago, the board eligibility is less than 75 per cent.
On the basis of JEE-Main, top institutes for admission include IIIT Hyderabad, Bangalore, Delhi, DTU, NSIT Delhi, Thapar Patiala, LNMIT Jaipur, Nirma Ahmedabad, JP Noida, Dhirubhai Ambani Ahmedabad, ICT Mumbai, AIT Pune etc. where board eligibility is less than 75 percent. In most of the colleges, the board eligibility is considered to be an average of 60 percent marks in PCM in class 12th.
Similarly, through JEE-Advanced examination, admission is available in many best institutes like IISC Bangalore, IIST Trivandrum, IISC Pune, Rajiv Gandhi Petroleum Raebareli, IIPE Visakhapatnam, in which the board eligibility of 75 percent is not applicable.
Apart from this, there are many state engineering institutes of the country where admission is granted on the basis of state level entrance exam and also on the basis of JEE-Main. In such engineering institutes, the board eligibility is also less than 60 percent.
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The admission process for the country’s biggest engineering entrance exam JEE-Main April session is underway. A large number of students are applying. Till now, more than 1.80 lakh new unique candidates have applied, due to which the number of students applying for both JEE-Main sessions combined has increased to more than 14 lakh. Earlier 12 lakh 31 thousand students had applied for the January JEE-Main session. The last date of registration for JEE Main 2024 April Session is till 2 March.
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