JEE Main 2015: CSAB extends deadline to fill up NIT, IIT seats

The Central Seat Allocation Board (CSAB), in order to give a fair chance to meritorious students has extended the deadline to fill up vacant seats in NITs, IITs and other Government-Funded Technical Institutes (GFTIs) to August 17.
The seats will be granted to the candidates who do not have a seat in the joint allocation process along with those who have JEE (Main) ranks and are without seats, too. Many parents and students are unhappy with  the situation since the process will now be granting another chance to students who have already been one.
A special round of allotment was announced after more than 3,000 seats were vacant post the  fourth round of seat allocation. While most seats are vacant in unpopular courses, many in popular ones, such as computer science and engineering, mechanical, electrical and civil are also empty, which is the bone of contention for many aspirants. The major reason for this is the candidates with higher ranks who had blocked these seats but later on did not report to take admission against the same.

JEE Main 2015: CSAB to declare seat allotment results for NITs, IITs and GFTIs today

The Central Seat Allotment Board (CSAB) is conducting a special round of counselling for admissions to NITs, IIITs and GFTIs. The counselling is being conducted for admissions to technical institutes under the JEE Main 2015. This seat allotment process is being held for the seats that were left vacant after the Joint Seat Allocation Authority (JoSAA) concluded the joint seat allocation process.
More than 3,000 seats were vacant after JoSAA conducted its fourth round of seat allocation, this happened because the candidates with higher ranks had blocked these seats but later on did not report to take admission against the same. Thus, the board decided to fill these seats through a special round of seat allotment. The vacant seats are available in courses such as Computer Science, Communication Engineering and Electronics, amongst others.
The candidates were to download the e-challan and pay a fee of Rs 45,000 before they can register online, the candidates under the reserved categories had to pay a fee of Rs 20,000.
The candidates were allowed to deposit the fee and fill and save their choice of course and college online by August 11. The results of the seat allotment will be declared today, the selected candidates are required to report to their respective institutes from August 12 to 14.
The candidates who fail to report to the institute allotted to them will lose their seat, and the initial fee paid by them will be forfeited.

IIT, NIT admissions: Third round of seat allocation to begin tomorrow

The third round of seat allocation for admissions to IITs and NITs is scheduled to begin tomorrow. The process will take place online at the official site of the Joint Seat Allocation Authority (JoSAA), www.josaa.nic.in.
The third round of seat allotment is scheduled to begin at 10 am on July 18.
Up till now, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering have emerged as the most popular courses amongst the students. These are followed by Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering as the most sought-after courses. And IIT Bombay has been the first choice for most students, once again.
On the first day itself the Joint Seat Allocation Authority (JoSAA) online portal saw 58,000 students completing the registration process, they filled in almost 21 lakh choices for the same. Out of these, about 13 lakh students registered for admission to IITs, filling in 5.6 lakh choices.

IIT, NIT admissions 2015: Summary of second round of seat allotment

The second round of seat allocation for admissions to Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and National Institutes of Technology (NITs) was announced yesterday. The results have been published at the official websites of JEE Advanced and JoSAA portal.
The summary of the second round of seat allocation as mentioned on the official site is listed below:
1. A total of 33,989 candidates were allotted seats in round one of Joint Seat Allocation 2015 for 87 institutes comprising of 18 IITs, ISM Dhanbad, 31 NITs, 18 IIITs and 18 Other GFTIs.
2. Out of these, 26,597 candidates accepted the seat allotted to them. This resulted in overall vacancy of 7,383 seats at the end of round one of JoSAA 2015.
3.  These vacant seats were allocated in the round two by using the NIC and IIT Kanpur implementations of the DA algorithm based on the filled-in choices by the candidates prior to round one, and their category-wise all India ranks in JEE Main 2015 Paper 1, JEE  Main 2015 Paper 2 and JEE Advanced 2015.
4. The round two allotment output from the NIC and IIT Kanpur implementations matched with each other. In addition, these allocations were validated for compliance of all the business rules by the testing and validation teams from IIT Madras, IIT Kharagpur and IIT Guwahati. It was found that the allocations comply with all the business rules.
5. In view of the above, NIC has published the joint seat allocations 2015 for round two on JoSAA portal on July 13, as per schedule.

JEE Main 2015 ranks rise after Class 12 marks revised

On Friday, the students who appeared for JEE Main 2015 could see their revised ranks. The students' Class 12 scores increased after the re-evaluation, which led to an increase in their ranks by a margin of few hundred and even thousands in some cases.
Though the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) did not release any official notification regarding the revised rank list, the students were able to view their new ranks.
The Joint Seat Allocation Authority (JoSAA) ensured students that they will be allotted seats according to their merit and revised ranks. For this, the students should have filled-in their choices of courses and colleges in a decreasing order of preferences.
However, as the students had mentioned their options in accordance with their original ranks, they are not sure if they'll be allotted a better seat now. This is because the first round of allotment had been concluded by the time the revised ranks were released, and the students are not permitted a second chance to fill-in their choices.

IIT admissions: No takers for 591 seats in the first round of allocation

What could be termed as an unexpected move, close to 600 students aspiring to opt for engineering have not taken an IIT seat despite clearing the JEE (Advanced) examination. The joint seat allocation process for admission in IITs and NITs ended on July 12.
The applicants not opting to take admission in the course lead to 591 vacant seats out of the 10,006 seats available in the IITs. These seats will be available to the applicants in the second round of allocation which begins today i.e July 13. In all, 34,000 seats in 85 engineering institutes are on offer in the first-ever IIT-NIT-GFTI joint-seat allocation process.
IIT-Kharagpur, which emerged as the top choice among students receiving as many as 2.5 lakh applications also has 91 vacant seats till now. IIT-Bombay and IIT-Delhi which have always been a favourite among students with higher ranks also have reported 24 and 18 vacant seats after the first round. Last year, 650 seats were vacant in the IITs after the first round.

IIT, NIT admissions 2015: Summary of first round of seat allotment

The first round of seat allocation for admissions to Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and National Institutes of Technology (NITs) was announced today. The results have been published at the official websites of JEE Advanced and JoSAA portal.
The summary of the first round of seat allocation as mentioned on the official site is listed below:
A total of 1,52,655 (1.52 lakh) candidates filled-in 1,29,58,458 (1.29 crore) choices for the academic programs offered by 87 institutes comprising of 18 IITs, ISM, 31 NITs, 18 IIITs (Triple-I-Ts) and 18 Other-GFTIs (as of closing time 5:00 pm on July 5).
Based on the category-wise all India ranks in JEE Main 2015 Paper 1 and Paper-2 and JEE Advanced 2015, and preferences exercised by the candidates, seats were allocated for round one using DA algorithm implemented by NIC and IIT Kanpur teams.