JoSAA 2020 (JEE Main / Advanced Counselling) – Registration, Choice Filling, Seat Allotment

JoSAA 2020: The candidates who will clear JEE Main 2020 and JEE Advanced 2020 are required to appear in various rounds of counselling. Joint Seat Allocation Authority (JoSAA) manages the joint allocation of the candidates in almost 107 institutes. The authority has been set up by Ministry of Human Resources Development (MHRD). The qualified candidates can get admission into various NITs, IITs, IIITs and GFTIs. Candidates are required to first fill in the choices for the institutes at josaa.nic.in and then appear for the seat allocation rounds. To know more about JoSAA 2020, candidates can go through this article. 

JosAA 2020

Make sure you take advantage of the mock seat allotment in order to have a proper understanding about how the process of seat allocation works. Check the important details about JosAA 2020 from the table given below:

JoSAA 2020	Important Dates
JEE Main Result 2020 (January Session)	31 Jan 2020
JEE Main Result 2020 (April Session)	30 Apr 2020
JEE Advanced Result 2020	Jun 2020
Online Registration and Online Choice Filling	3rd week of Jun 2020
Display of Mock Allotment 1	3rd week of Jun 2020
Display of Mock Allotment 2	3rd week of Jun 2020
Reconciliation of data, seat allocation, verification and validation of data	4th week of Jun 2020
Seat Allocation (Round 1)	4th week of Jun 2020
Document Verification and Seat Acceptance	4th week of Jun 2020
Display of seats filled in Round 1	1st week of Jul 2020
Document Verification and Seat Acceptance / Withdrawal of seat) (Round 2)	1st week of Jul 2020
Display of seats filled	1st week of Jul 2020
Document Verification and Seat Acceptance / Withdrawal of seat) (Round 3)	2nd week of Jul 2020
Display of seats filled	2nd week of Jul 2020
Document Verification and Seat Acceptance / Withdrawal of seat) (Round 4)	2nd week of Jul 2020
Display of seats filled	2nd week of Jul 2020
Document Verification and Seat Acceptance / Withdrawal of seat) (Round 5)	2nd week of Jul 2020
Display of seats filled	3rd week of Jul 2020
Document Verification and Seat Acceptance / Last Round for Withdrawal of seat) (Round 6)	3rd week of Jul 2020
Display of seats filled	3rd week of Jul 2020
Document Verification and Seat Acceptance / Withdrawal of seat) (Round 7)	3rd week of Jul 2020
Document Verification and Acceptance of Seat by reporting at Reporting Centres / Admitting Institutes (Round 7) Withdrawal of seat at participating institute	4th week Jul 2020

JoSAA 2020 Eligibility Criteria

Candidates are required to match some of the eligibility requirements before filling in the choices for the participating institutes. Check the information given below for the same:

• All the candidates who have appeared in JEE Main 2019 can appear for the seat allocation round.
• All the candidates who have declared qualified in JEE (Adv) 2019 are also eligible to appear.
• The qualified candidates of JEE Main as well as JEE Advanced must have secured 75% in 12th class or must be in top 20 percentile. For the categories such as SC, ST, PwD, the qualifying percentage is 65%. (For admission into IITs).

JoSAA Participating Institutes

There are some institutes which accepts the rank of the candidates after clearing JEE Main and JEE Advanced. Following given list depicts the main institutes but the institutes have further branches under them. 

Participating Institutes	No. of institutes under the main institute
NITs	31
IITs	23
IIITs	25
Govt. Funded Technical Institutions	28
Total	107

JoSAA Selection Procedure 2020

There is a set procedure for selection for the candidates after qualifying JEE Main and JEE Advanced. JoSAA is going to conduct around 7 rounds for the seat allocation. Check the whole process of JoSAA 2020 from the section given below:

Registration: 

• The first step is the registration wherein, candidates who have cleared JEE Main 2019 are eligible to appear for NIT + System (except IITs).
• The candidates who have qualified JEE Advanced 2019 are all eligible to participate in the seat allocation rounds of the participating institutes.

Filling the choices:

After the registration is done, the qualified candidates are required to carefully select their choices. The choices of the institutes and the branches have to be filled in the decreasing order of their preferences. Also, it is advised to candidates to fill in as many choices as they want. 

Locking of Choices:

All the candidates after filling their choices must “lock” their choices to have the confirmation of their selected institutes. Locking of choices is important because if the candidates who do not lock their choice, the choices which they saved last will be automatically locked at the time of closing of choice – filling window. 

Seat Acceptance:

Candidates who will get their seat will have to pay the seat acceptance fee and take part in Document Verification round to get the provisional seat acceptance. The seat acceptance fee can be submitted by following payment gateways:

• SBI Net Banking
• SBI Debit Cards
• SBI E- challan

Participating in the further rounds:

Now this is the most important step in seat allocation round, as in this step, candidates are required to either ‘freeze’, ‘slide’ or ‘float’ the choice of academic program.

Seat Withdrawal:

Candidates can withdraw their seat after the 6th round. After the final round, candidates cannot withdraw. So, make sure if you want to change your decision, do it before the final round. 

JoSAA 2020 Important Points for Seat Allocation

The seat allocation for JoSAA will be done keeping in mind some criteria. Let’s check what are the points for that:

• The category of the candidates will be taken into consideration (GEN, GEN EWS, GEN PwD, SC, ST, OBC, OBC – NCL, SC PwD, ST PwD, EWS PwD).
• The position of the candidate in the rank list.
• Order of preference filled by the candidates.
• Availability of seats in different categories / institutes / quotas.

What is Freezing, Floating, Sliding and Withdrawal Options?

Once the registration is done, candidates are done with the process filling the choices then they are required to select certain options for the proper seat allotment. 

Freezing – This means that candidates have accepted the offered seat and are satisified with the seat allotment and will not sit for further rounds of seat allotment. 

Floating- This means that candidates have accepted the offered seat however, they will consider to sit in further seat allotment rounds if there is a better / preference offered at any institute, they are going to accept that. 

Sliding- This option means that candidates have accepted the seat which was offered to them. However, if they find a better / higher preference within the same institute, they will accept the offer and will sit for the further rounds of admission. 

Withdrawal- Candidates who have accepted the seat, they can withdraw from the institute up to 6th round of seat allocation. These candidates will not be considered for further rounds of seat allotment. 

Mock Seat Allotment

The word ‘mock’ refers to the provisional allotment of seats to the candidates. Candidates are advised to take part in the mock allotment because that will allow the candidates to see what is the process of the allocation of seats and what are different criteria to get a seat in a particular institute. 

Candidates can choose as many academic programmes they want and are thinking to pursue that programme. With the mock allotment, candidates can select their preferences in a better way. After the mock allotment, the registration and online choice filling window closes and then the actual allotment rounds take place.

Opening and Closing Ranks

The opening and closing ranks are announced by the institutes before the actual Seat Allotment Process. The ranks are indicated as per the different categories. Candidates are required to match with the opening ranks and closing ranks of the particular institute in which they have to take admission. 

In order to take admission in a particular programme of an institute, it is to be seen that candidates match the ranks released by them. However, during the rounds candidates can change their options if they find a better / higher option in the same institute or in a better course. 

Reporting at the Centres

The last step to take admission is the reporting at the centres for the Document Verification Round. After the conclusion of the seat allotment and verifying the documents, candidates need to report at the admitted centres to complete the remaining formalities and commence the academic session.

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