All India Engineering Entrance Examination

All India Engineering Entrance Examination (AIEEE) is an exam organized by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) in India. Initiated in the year 2002, this national level competitive test is for admission to several under-graduate engineering and architecture courses in institutes that accept the AIEEE score, including 20 renowned National Institutes of Technology’s (NITs).The examination is held in the last Sunday of April and results are announced during the end of May. Candidates get ranking on an all-India basis and also according to their position in state. Thus, they have an All India Rank (AIR) as well as a state rank (SR).

Students applying for B.Arch. are tested in mathematics and an aptitude test. Students applying for B.Tech./B.E. are tested in physics, mathematics and chemistry. The duration of the test is 3 hours but maximum marks and the number of questions may vary every year. Equal weightage is given to all the three sections.

Rule of Central Counselling Board for AIEEE 2010
As declared by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), 50% of the seats in NIT’s will be filled from AIEEE eligible candidates of States where the NIT’s are located and remaining 50% seats will be filled on an All India Merit basis.

The MHRD also plans to establish new NIT’s in states that do not have any as of now. In case NIT’s are not built by the time admission process for AIEEE 2010 starts, then seats will be made available for eligible students of such States/UTs that do not have any NIT, so as to keep the number of seats for such States/UTs at the level of 2007, after making necessary adjustment for the number of seats filled by eligible candidates of these States/UTs.

Future
Showing Faith in organisational capability and technical infrastructure of the NIT system, the MHRD has decided to entrust the task of conducting the AIEEE to NIT’s themselves starting from 2008-09 session itself.

Earlier, the counselling process was dealt by a Central Counselling Board (CCB) based at New Delhi. The important decision to this effect was taken by the MHRD on the advice of the Directors of NIT’s meeting who had unanimously advocated for transferring of the responsibility for CCB of AIEEE counselling to NITs.

Every year director of a NIT will be the chairman of the CCB along with the selected directors of other institutes in the board of counselling.

The NITs will conduct the counselling and take the responsibility of setting question papers as well from the year 2010. Similar to the conduct of the IIT-JEE and counselling by one of the six IITs in the country every year on a rotational basis, one among the 20 NIT’s in the country would be made a nodal agency for the conduct of AIEEE every year.

Related Link: www.aieee.nic.in/