How to do JEE Counseling: Important points to know about process and documents required!

JEE Counseling is one of the major phases in admission after achieving a good rank in the JEE exam. This counselling will play an important role in deciding the college after a tough decision. This also includes the selection of the course for which student is going to start its career. It needs lots of research and advice from various people. So it is important for you to understand the process of counselling so that it might help you while you precede your career.

Now, after the JEE final result, your head is thinking of the counselling process, how it will be done? Which college should I choose and which course? These are the general questions. JEE counselling 2019 involves the selection of college and branch and it is a single counselling procedure or joint counselling after the merge of JEE and AIEEE by the government in 2015.

IIT JEE Counseling: A general review

For IIT counselling, it is important to take steps a little bit fast so that you can get the best seat as possible. Don’t take much time during the counselling period; apply for the best colleges as possible. The counselling of IIT JEE begins within the week after the announcement of the IIT JEE result and will be opened for some time after all other school boards declare their result.

This counselling is conducted by the JoSAA or Joint Seat Allocation Authority and has declared JEE counselling date and the seats are available for allocation. There is no fixed date for the seat allocation. JoSAA counselling is responsible for allocation is done only in the major institutions such as IITs, NITs and other government-funded colleges.

Although, there are other exams too for the state government colleges so admission in various colleges will happen in this duration only. Not being distracted from the path, Central Seat Allocation Board introduces a common preference form for the students to fill their preferred colleges for the IITs, NITs and other government-funded colleges.

This counselling process is similar for the JEE advanced counselling and JEE main counselling. For the JEE main counselling registration, students can visit the official website JEE main counselling official website. There is no JEE main counselling fees and students should not pay for any kind of unnecessary amount. Although the student has to pay for payment seat acceptance fee as decided by the JoSAA.

Process for the Joint admission counselling

Step 1: Registration

JEE counselling is done through an online process only. The JEE mains online counselling is similar to counselling for JEE advanced, so no need to worry about this. First, register on the official website and fill all your preferred choices and this will start after the declaration of the result.

Step 2: Apply for preferred choices and lock them

This step includes the filling of college preferences in JEE counselling process and candidates don’t forget to lock your choices through options freeze, slide and float. They can take their time in the filling process by interchanging and rearranging their preference and final choices have to be made at last. The process will be in descending order which means your top priority will be on top and lowest priority at the bottom. However JoSAA is going to conduct 1 to 7 rounds for the seat allocation.

Step 3: Seat allocation and results announcement

This step provides the details of the allocated seats to the student from the choices they have made and as per their ranking in the JEE result. All the results will be announced through online mode. For JEE mains result, click here. And for the JEE Advanced go to result in the page on the website.

Step 4: Issue of Letter for seat allocation and its payment

Under this step, a letter of seat allotment will be issued to the candidates and they can save, download or print directly from the website of JoSAA. The seat acceptance fee for the general candidates is Rs. 45000/- and for the reserved categories it will be 20000/-. It can vary as per the government guidelines for seat allocation fees.

Step 5: Timely candidate reporting and verification of documents

This is the last and important step of the counselling. Under this, the student has to report at the centre on time by carrying all the essential and original documents for the verification. Students must also carry one or two photocopies with them, in case of any requirement. Admission can be cancelled in case of late arrival at the centre, so it is necessary to go to the correct center on the correct time.

*Important points to know:

1. In case of seat allotment changes, you are required to report twice at the reporting center.
2. Once locked, the seat allotted preference cannot be modified, so be careful while giving preference to the colleges and verify first before the final lock.

List of Documents required for JEE advanced counselling

Here is the list of the documents required in JEE counselling process.

• Seat allotment print form with locked choices
• Issued Provisional JoSAA Seat Allotment Letter
• 2 Photographs- passport size
• Undertaking form of student
• Valid identity card with photograph
• Original Admit card of JEE Advanced
• Payment proof of Seat Acceptance Fee in SBI
• Certificate of medical proof
• High secondary or 12^th passing certificate or mark sheet
• Certificate of disability, in case of any disability
• Proof of category, in case of applied for special category
• Date of Birth Certificate or 10^th mark sheet
• For foreigners, the requirement is passport or POI card or OCI certificate
• DS certificate or defense service certificate for candidate having their parent in defense

This is a general list. However, the requirement of documents may vary under the guidance of JoSAA and to know about process in details go to business rules.

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