JEE Advanced to go online from 2016

At a meeting of the Joint Admission Board of IITs held on August 23, 2014 in New Delhi, the institutes agreed that JEE Advanced, which determines admission to all 16 IITs, should go completely online from 2016.

About 1.5 lakh students are eligible to appear for JEE Advanced exam. The online JEE Advanced will consist of Paper I and Paper II.

Institutions  which will participate  in JEE Advanced:

1. IIT Delhi
2. IIT Bombay
3. IIT Kharagpur
4. IIT Roorkee
5. IIT Kanpur
6. IIT Madras
7. IIT (BHU) Varanasi
8. IIT Bhubaneswar
9. IIT Gandhinagar
10. IIT Guwahati
11. IIT Hyderabad
12. IIT Indore
13. IIT Jodhpur
14. IIT Mandi
15. IIT Patna
16. IIT Ropar
17. ISM Dhanbad
18. Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology, Ratapur Chowk, Rae Bareli, UP
19. Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (IISER)
20. Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram
21. Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

JEE Main has already gone partly online. The IITs own Joint Admission Test for Masters (JAM) and Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) for masters courses also offered at the institutes are also online.

The online JEE Advanced will continue to consist of Paper I and Paper II and will have to be taken on the same day.

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XAT 2015 Entrance Exam Notification

XLRI Jamshedpur, one of the premier Indian business schools, has announced registration for the Xavier Aptitude Test (XAT) 2015 to be held on January 4, next year. The last date for applying is November 22, 2014.

“The XAT exams for 2015 will be conducted on the first Sunday of January next year, i.e. 4th January, 2015. XAT, like every year, will follow the pen & paper format, in order to ensure equal opportunity to all candidates,” said Munish Thakur, Chairperson-Admissions at XLRI, in a press statement.

This year, XAT will be conducted in 47 centres across India. The test will also be held in two international cities, including Dubai and Kathmandu.

Eligibility: Candidates holding a recognised Bachelor’s Degree in any discipline or equivalent from a recognised university or a deemed university or completing their graduation by June 10, 2015 are eligible to appear for XAT.

Last year, 106 B-schools accepted the scores of XAT exam as part of their admission criteria.
Some of the reputed B-schools that accept XAT scores:

• LIBA, Chennai
• XIME, Bangalore
• XIM, Bhubaneswar
• TAPMI, Manipal
• Goa Institute of Management
• SPJIMR, Mumbai
• Mudra Institute of Communication, Ahmedabad (MICA)

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