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JEE Arch 2021Dates Announced

Online application starts on 16th December 2020

Online application starts on 16th December 2020

Application ends on 16th January 2021

Successful transaction of Fee by 17th January 2021

Scheduled date of examination on February and May 2021

Application Fee

India:

• General Boys Rs.650/-
• General Girls Rs.325/
• SC/ST/PWD/Transgender: Rs.325/-

OUTSIDE INDIA:

• General Boys Rs.3000/-
• General Girls Rs.1500/-
• SC/ST/PWD/Transgender: Rs.1500/-

JoSAA admission procedure

Admissions to 111 Institutes consisting of more than 40,000 seats is via Joint Seat Allocation authority

There are 23 IITs, 31 NITs, 1 IIEST, 26 IIITs and 30 GFTIs. The website of JoSAA is www.josaa.nic.in

It is via JEE advanced exam the admission to 23 IITs takes place.

Now for B.Arch in IITs, you have to be qualifies for Architecture Aptitude Test or AAT

Now via JEE Main exam is the admission to NITs, IIEST, IIITs and GFTIs takes place.

Now let’s discuss OPTION REGISTRATION

Option registration is the process of identifying the preference of a candidate.

Allotment is the process of getting the available seats according to the candidates rank.

Each of the options provided by the candidate is termed as ACADAMIC PROGRAM in JoSAA.

This year there are more than 600 Programs via JoSAA.

Anyone who is in the rank list can give Options.

There is not limit to giving options which means you can give many options.

Each candidate should make a preferential list of colleges to which the candidate might get to according to the candidates rank.

JoSAA 2019 last rank details is provided in our website FAQs.

The candidate can give any number of options according to his/her interest in the decreasing order of preference.

Since there is facility to give options, give maximum number of colleges to which you would like to join in decreasing preferential order.

Last year via JoSAA 2019 more than 2 lakhs candidates gave more than 2 Crore plus options. Which means each student gave an average of 100+ options.

Though we can give options to JoSAA based on the rank list of these four JEE Main B.Tech, B.Arch, B.Plan and JEE Advanced exams, only one option will be available out of the many options you give.

So, when giving the order of preference, you have to be very careful.

You can give options from OCTOBER 6^th to 15^th. There will be a trial allotment on OCTOBER 12^th and 14^th. We get a fair picture about the possibilities from the trial allotment.

You can rearrange the options after the trial allotment if required.

The choice filling will be closed by OCTOBER 15^th.  After that you won’t be able to change or add the options.

An option is a combination of DURATION, INSTITUTE AND COURSE.

This year there are 6 allotments via JoSAA. Due to Covid-19 situation, there will only be online reporting.

There will not be any State wise preference in IITs. But for NITs. IIESTs and certain GFTs there are HSOS

HS is Home State Quota 50%

OS is Other State Quota 50%

The Home State of a candidate where he/she studied 12^th.

State code of Eligibility is the State where the candidate passes 12^th.

Who should join IITs via JoSAA?

This is for the students asking the question, Should I go to IITs for any branch without preference?

The answer depends on the following points.

If you are looking forward for higher studies, you should go for IITs. Because IITs have great brand value and International reputation.

Those who would like to go for MBA after B.Tech or to go abroad, its ideal that you got for IITs.

Google CEO is an alumnus from IIT Kharagpur in the field of Metallurgy. So, once you are in IIT, you have all the facility to improve your field of interest. In IITs it is 60% compulsory subjects and 40% free electives. So regardless of your Branch, you will be taught your field of interest.

If you get option 10 out of the 100 options given, the options from 11 to 100 will be gone for the next allotment and only higher options will be available.

All Fee payment and upload of documents are all online along with reporting due to the Covid-19 situation.

Schedule of JoSAA 2020 has come in the site.

You should do Seat Acceptance and Seat Fee Payment online.

Schedule of Events of JoSAA 2020 (image)

Now the documents required for JoSAA Counselling for 2020 has not been arrived yet but generally if its like last year, the required documents are:

1. Provisional JoSAA seat allotment letter
2. Two Passport Size photographs
3. Candidate undertaking
4. Photo identity card
5. Original JEE Advanced admit card
6. Proof of Seat acceptance Fee payment by E-Challan or SBI Net Banking
7. Date of Birth Proof (10^th std mark sheet)
8. Class 12^th or equivalent mark sheet and pass certificate
9. Medical Certificate
10. Category Certificate if applicable
11. Certificate for PWD if applicable
12. Passport for foreign nationals or OCI certificate or PIO card
13. DS Certificate if applicable

If you accept a seat in JoSAA, in subsequent rounds you will have 3 choice -> FREEZE, FLOAT, SLIDE.

If you don’t want any change in the option you received through the first allotment, then you have to FREEZE it.

Once you freeze, you won’t be included in the coming subsequent allotments.

SLIDE

If you don’t want to change the institute you received in first allotment, but want to change the branch, then this can be done by choice of SLIDE.

FLOAT

If you receive an option in the lower preferential order in the first allotment and now you wish to try for all the above options in the subsequent allotments, then give choice FLOAT. This means when you want to change the institute and branch give option FLOAT.

Now comes CSAB

The special allotment for the vacant seats after the JoSAA allotments is through Central Seat Allocation Board or CSAB. There is no allotment to IITs via CSAB. CSAB will call for allotments after the JoSAA allotments. The vacant seats in each institute will be displayed. Anyone in the JEE Main rank list can apply. Anyone who has taken admission in any institute via JoSAA can also apply. Last year there were around 7000 vacant seats after JoSAA.

JoSAA Counselling 2021 - Dates, Registration, Choice Filling, Seat Allotment, Procedure

JoSAA counselling 2021 for the admission in IITs, NITs, IIITs and GFTIs will begin in June. The counselling and seat allotment process of JEE Main is based on the AIR obtained by the candidates in the entrance exam.

JoSAA Choice Filling 2020 is scheduled to start from October 06, 2020

JoSAA Choice Filling 2020: The JoSAA registration and choice filling are scheduled to commence from October 06, 2020. JoSAA, also known as Joint Seat Allocation Authority, is set up by the Ministry of Human Resource Development in order to manage the admission to 107 tertiary institutes approved by the Government of India. Through JoSAA Counselling process, the eligible candidates will be provided admission to various IITs, NITs, IIITs and other government-based technical colleges.

The JoSAA registration will be available online and the students will have to register through the official portal before the last date. After the registration, the registered students will be eligible for JoSAA choice filling 2020. The following article will overview the complete details related to JoSAA Choice Filling 2020 including dates, process, freeze, float, slide, withdraw, and much more.

JoSAA Choice Filling Dates 2020

The students who are interested to take admission through JoSAA counselling will have to register and fill their choices before the last date. Thus, it is important for the students to stay updated with the JoSAA choice filling dates 2020 so that they don’t miss out on upcoming events.

The JoSAA choice filling dates 2020 are given in the table below:

JoSAA Choice Filling Process 2020

Before going for JoSAA Registration & Choice Filling 2020, it is very important for the candidates to read the process carefully. Every student will be allowed for JoSAA Choice Filling 2020 only once. Thus, the students must take utmost care while filling their choice of preference for admission. The below section overviews the step by step process for JoSAA Choice Filling 2020 which will help you through the process:

JoSAA Seat Allotment 2020

JoSAA will conduct a centralised counselling process through which the seats will be allocated to the candidates. The JoSAA Seat Allotment 2020 will be done on the basis of rank obtained by the candidates in JEE Main/ Advanced along with their preference of choice filled. 

After the seat is allotted to the candidates, they will have the option to either freeze, float, slide or withdraw their allotted seats. See the below table to understand how these options work:

What is NTA?

The National Testing Agency (NTA) score is a standardized score of different exams conducted by them. It is the percentile score of the individuals who appeared for the exam. NTA score signifies the percentage of applicants who have scored equivalent marks or lower than the equivalent marks. These calculations are based on the level 1 performance of all the students who have appeared for the NTA exam. But most of the students find it hard to calculate the NTA scores. The article provides the procedure to calculate NTA scores for the JEE examination.

What is NTA Score?

NTA score is defined as a positional rank or percentile score of a candidate who has appeared for the jee exam. The score is calculated after applying the normalization to the raw marks scored by the candidate in session wise test against multi-session, this is done based on the performance of candidates who have appeared for the exam. 

For calculation of score, the marks obtained are transferred into a scale that is from 100 to 0 for each session. After that, the candidate position on the scale is calculated by a simple percentile. For example, is the total of 100 candidates who have appeared for the jee exam and percentile or NTA score is 79, then it means that 78 candidates scored less than your score. 

Is NTA Score and Percentile the Same?

NTA score or JEE Main exam percentile isn't equivalent to the percentage of imprints. NTA score is a standardized score across multisession papers and depends on the overall execution of every one of the individuals who showed up for the test in one meeting. It is the standardized score and not the crude scores.

The following are the three terms.

• Raw score or raw marks
• NTA score
• Percentile

Raw score or marks is a score which you achieved out of 300; let's say its 240. But the other two NTA and percentile are exactly the same score which an individual has got.

Let's say, 100 students have appeared for JEE Main exam and from that nine students got more than 250 out of 300. Then your raw score will be 250, and your NTA score or percentile will be 91 (100-9).

NTA score is the percentile scores or positional position of the students who have shown up for the JEE assessment. The NTA score is determined after applying the standardization to the raw marks acquired by the students in meeting insightful papers against the multi-meeting. The estimation is done on the general execution of the considerable number of understudies who have shown up for the JEE assessment.

On the scorecard, the percentile is referenced under the mark NTA score, so the two of them are the equivalent. So, this is the difference between them; the NTA score and percentile are totally different from each other.

NTA Score Cut-off

With the declaration by the JEE Main result, NTA will also release the qualifying score for candidates appearing in JEE Main exam. The qualifying marks for the general category are 89.75, and 78.21 for the EWS category, for OBC & NCL is 74.31, and for SC it is 54.

Calculation of JEE Main Rank Based on NTA

The students may find it very difficult to calculate these scores.

Students, in any case, probably comprehend and estimate their positions by looking at the toppers and their percentile scores. Likewise, the position of the percentile variety may give students a comprehension of the positions.

In any case, with JEE Main 2020 April assessment still due, students can just, best case scenario 'assume' their position. The JEE Main rank 2020 would be determined after both January and April results are arranged and looked at. A percentile or NTA score of up to 8 decimal spots would be thought of. If there is a tie, at that point, different standards like NTA score in Mathematics (standardized percentile score and not crude score), Physics section score, and age of the candidate will be considered.

Why is it hard for anybody to assess your JEE Main rank? Now is just because the specific separation of students' crude scores of all 8.6 lakh applicants who showed up isn't known. What is critical to recall is 100 percentiles don't mean 100 percent marks.

The formula for calculation of JEE Main rank from percentile score can be-{(100-P)/100} *N+1.

How much NTA Score is Required to Qualify for IIT?

If the calculation of the JEE rank is not possible then how do you know the score to qualify for IIT jee or JEE advanced 2020? You can get this by calculating the JEE advance cut off which would be calculated on percentile. The below table of the JEE advance percentile score for 2019 is given. 

These numbers which are mentioned in the table are estimated and only for reference. The percentile or number would change. Also, IIT Delhi conducting JEE advance 2020 has to yet declared the exact number os candidate who is qualified for the exam. As per experts, they say a candidate who scores 90 percentile will be qualified in the exam.  

JEE Main Rank Calculation Example

There are two candidates A & B both appeared for the JEE Main 2020 in January and April if candidate A got 95 percentiles in January and 65 percentiles in April. In contrast, the other candidate gets 80% and 98% in the respective months.

Similarly, candidate B has a higher rank based on the best of two, that is candidate A January marks, and candidate B marks will be added to the rank card.

Key points to remember about JEE Main percentile are,

• Percentile and percentage are different from each other.
• Your percentile inside your day of work matters.
• Age (most established success)
• JEE Main legitimacy rundown will be set up based on percentile scores and not on the crude imprints made sure about by wannabes in the test.

How to Calculate the NTA Score?

The NTA score is calculated by taking the NTA score than the JEE main rank using the formula (100*90.54) x 856573/100 (this formula is not used for calculation of the 100 percentile score).

According to the NTA recipe, with a score of 93.1, you will get a position of around 41,000.

To compute the JEE Main position, you first need to know the level of individuals in front of you with higher percentile scores. For calculating that, the recipe would be 100 (which is the most noteworthy score) short your percentile score.

The percentile is determined from a scale of 0 to 100 for every meeting of examinees. Then the equation applies the all-out number of understudies in the January meeting, which is 874469/100 duplicated by the level of individuals who are in front of you to show up at the position.

Accordingly to JEE Main 2019, the equation to figure the JEE Main position for January 2019 is- 

• JEE Main 2019 position (likely) = (100-NTA percentile score) X 875469/100
• On the off chance that NTA percentile score is 90.70, JEE Main position will be (100-90.70) X 874469/100 = 81325
• This recipe would not be for a 100-percentile score as those are the highest levels.
• As you got 95.1, your rank ought to be (100-95.1) *874469=42849

How to Convert NTA Score to Rank?

Applicants can follow the below steps to convert the NTA score to rank.

• For converting the NTA score into a rank, the following data is needed-
• Put your NTA score or marks.
• Total number of candidates who have given the exam
• Percentage of candidates below and above your marks
• Number of candidates above your score

Now use this formula {(100-P)/100} *N+1, the rank which generated here may be All India Rank (AIR), the actual rank can be different due to other factors.

NATA 2020: Exam Day Guidelines

1. Candidates must reach their allotted exam centres at least 2 hours before the examination.

2. Candidates must carry their NATA admit card along with a valid Id proof to the exam centre.

3. Candidates must wear face masks and gloves to the centres and follow all COVID-19 guidelines.

4. Candidates will be provided with the hand sanitizers at the exam centres.

5. Candidates will not be allowed to carry any electronic gadgets like mobile phones, calculators, etc. to the exam centres.

Changes to NATA 2020

1. No Sketching - instead there will be visual based questions. 
2. Test will be online for those who can take it from home. 
3. Those who cannot take it from home can opt to go to a common test centre. 
4. 1st Attempt is on 29th August 2020. 
5. 2nd attempt to be announced. 

Eligibility for Architecture?

As per Council of Architecture regulations, a candidate applying to any school / colleges of architecture in India should have 50% marks in 10+2 or equivalent examination with minimum 50% marks in Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics and 40% score in NATA, i.e. at least 80/200, for consideration of admission into first year of 5 year B.Arch. Degree Course.

The candidates appearing for 10+2 examination with PCM or 10+3 Diploma with Mathematics in the current year may also provisionally appear for NATA-2020, subject to fulfilling the above criteria.

The candidates belonging to SC, ST, OBC-NCL category or PwD (Persons with disability) shall be provided a relaxation of 5%  in total aggregate in 10+2 level/10+3 Diploma as well as PCM.

Architecture admission process ?

Here are three main exams one need to take for taking admission in B.Arch:

JEE - Covers all IITs, NITs and central govt. funded institutes

NATA - For private colleges and universities across India

State University and private university entrance tests

Before preparing you need to first decide which is target competitive exam for you. All these three exams have different pattern and marking criteria. Syllabus is more or less same having Mathematics, Aptitude Test & Drawing Test as major sections. The weightage and scoring pattern is different. For state universities and private universities logon to their websites.

Top Best B.Arch Colleges in India

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorke

Sir J. J. College of Architecture, Mumbai

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur

School of Planning and Architecture (SPA), Delhi

National Institute of Technology (NIT), Thiruchirappally

CEPT University, Ahmedabad

National Institute of Technology, Calicut (NITC)

Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra

Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi

School of Planning and Architecture (SPA), Bhopal

Is maths compulsory for architecture?

Yes, you cannot pursue architecture if you don't have mathematics as your main stream. With the new syllabus, you also need to know physics and chemistry for NATA entrance.

NATA exam pattern?

The Nata exam consists of 2 parts:1. Drawing - 3 Questions for 125 marks which is Part A2. Objective - 55 Questions for 75 marks which is Part B

Jobs and Careers for Architects

Architecture careers are more diverse than you might think, including:

Building architecture – designing new buildings, or adapting existing ones.

Landscape architecture – planning, designing and managing open spaces, including both natural and urban areas.

What is the NATA Qualifying marks ?

Qualifying marks for NATA-2020 would be based on the following rules:

A minimum of 32 marks out of 125 marks must be secured in Part A (approximately 25%)

A minimum of 18 marks out of 75 marks must be secured in Part B (approximately25% )

Overall qualifying marks (out of 200) would be based on post-exam statistics and at the discretion of the Council.

A Candidate will not qualify in NATA-2020 unless he/ she satisfies all three conditions mentioned above.

Is 90 a good score for NATA ?

90 in NATA is an average score. Also, your admission to any Architecture college in India depends on your NATA score and your 12th Board marks. Generally anything above 130 will get you into a very good college (Private) and a score above 150 is required if you want admission in a government college.

Should I write NATA for admission to B.Arch in IITs?

No, you dont need to write NATA to pursue architecture from IIT Roorkie or IIT Kharagpur. (These are the only IITs with course of architecture)

You need to clear JEE Advanced and get a rank acceptable by these 2 IITs and then you will have to appear for AAT (Architectural Aptitude Test).

B.Arch in IITs and SPAs is done via JEE Paper II.

I want to attempt JEE Main 2020 Paper 2 (B.Arch). What are the subjects I need to study?

For B.Arch, the students need to study Mathematics, General Aptitude and Drawing Skills. The syllabus has been released to let the students know which topics have to be studied by the students to prepare for the examination.

What type of questions are usually asked in the JEE drawing section?

For the drawing section, the students will have to prepare topics such as sketching of scenes and activities from memory of urbanscape (monuments, public space, festivals, market, street scenes, recreational spaces, etc.), landscape (river fronts, jungles, trees, plants, etc.) and rural life.

Which NIT is best for architecture?

NIT Trichy is the best in NITs for architecture.

JEE Main 2020 Paper-II - Marking scheme 2020 ?

The JEE Main 2020 Paper-II (BArch) is divided into three parts – Mathematics, Aptitude and Drawing. Maths section will include 20 MCQs and 5 questions with a numerical value; Aptitude section will have 50 MCQs; the Drawing section will consist of 2 drawing-related questions of 50 marks each. The questions paper will have a total of 77 questions and the total marks of the paper will be 400. Candidates will get 3 hours to complete the paper.

There will be no negative marking for numerical value question, while, for MCQs, -1 will be deducted for an incorrect answer and 0 for an attempted question.