Student must carry Intermediate Admit Card to take JEE Main Exam

Student must carry Intermediate Admit Card to take JEE Main Exam

The students appearing for the joint entrace examination (JEE-main) examination will have to carry the admit card or hall ticket of their Class XII or Plus II examination, according to a public notice issued on Monday by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE).

The CBSE said it took the decision after finding that a nuber of candidates had committed mistakes in submitting their Class XII qualifying examination roll numbers before downloading the JEE (main) admit cards.

"A large number of candidates have committed mistakes while submitting their roll numbers in the online forms. The hall ticket will ensure that they do not make any mistake in writing their roll numbers," said a senior officer at CBSE regional office here.

The combined engineering entrance examination to take admission to Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), National Institutes of Technology (NITs), Indian Institutes of Information Technology and Management, and several other engineering colleges is scheduled on April 7, while the online test will be held from April 8 to 25. Around 20,000 students have registered to appear for the test at Rourkela, the only centre in Odisha.

"The roll number of qualifying exam is required because this is for the first time the scores of Class XII or qualifying examination will also be given weightage while determining the all-India rank in JEE (main). Students who have cleared the Class-XII or Plus Two examination have to submit a copy of their marksheet to the invigilator in the examination," the officer added.

During the offline examination, students have to appear two papers each having three hours duration on Sunday. There are 33 examination centres in Rourkela, the only town to host the examination in the state. In order to make the examination hassle-free for a large number of students, the district administration has made elaborate arrangements in the city.

"We are expecting about 40,000 visitors to the city on April 6 and 7. Since all hotels and lodgings have already been booked for these two days we have made arrangements of the free accommodation of 3,000 candidates and their guardians in 39 places like kalyam mandaps, community halls, guest houses and so on," said additional district magistrate (Rourkela) R N Mishra.

Besides, volunteers will open a help desk and control room at the railway station to help the examinees. Nearly 100 buses will ferry candidates to the examination centre on eight routes, Mishra said.