
Starting from 2013, there will be a new format for admission to all central government-funded engineering institutes — IITs, NITs, IIITs etc.
Now there will be one common entrance test, the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE), which will replace the present IIT-JEE and AIEEE. It will give more weightage to Standard XII exam results and comprise of two objective type tests — JEE-Main and JEE-Advanced — which will both be organized the same day.
The...