Gujarat, Maharashtra and Odisha have joined the Joint Entrance Examination (Main) system that was introduced from this year for admission to premier technical institutes in the country.
According to a Press release by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on Saturday, candidates seeking admission to institutes in the States which previously carried out admissions through their own state-level examinations, have been asked to fill in the JEE (Main) 2014 application form online. It said the detailed information bulletin containing details of examination, syllabus, eligibility etc along with the process of normalisation of marks will be available on the JEE (Main) website by second week of November 2014.
The JEE (Main) exam is conducted by the JEE apex board for admission to undergraduate engineering programmes in the NITs, IIITs and other centrally funded technical institutes. This examination also screens the top 1.5 lakh students for appearing in JEE (Advanced) for admission to the IITs.