NIMCET Counselling 2020 – Dates, Process, Documents, Seat Matrix

NIMCET Counselling 2020 – After announcing the result of NIMCET, NIT conducts counselling for the exam. The counselling of NIMCET is held online, for admission of qualified candidates in MCA program offered by 10 NITs. The process of NIMCET 2020 counselling includes choice filling, seat allotment, downloading of allotment letter, reporting in person at the center, document verification, and payment of fee. Candidates can check complete details on NIMCET counselling 2020 from this page.

NIMCET Counselling 2020

NIMCET 2020 counselling is held in multiple rounds. Usually, NITs hold 3 rounds. Candidates can check schedule for each round of counselling from the table below.

NIMCET 2020 Counselling Process

Candidates who have qualified NIT MCA Common Entrance Test gets selected for the counselling process. In the counselling process, there are three stages. These three stages are as follows: 

• Online choice filling
• Seat allotment 
• Reporting and documents verification

NIMCET 2020 Online Choice Filling

In choice filling, candidates select the course and the college in which they wish to take admission. After the declaration of NIMCET result, rank holders received an e-mail. In it, a new username and password is provided with the link for choice filling. The candidates need to follow the steps below to submit the choices.

1. Click on the and change the password.

2. When done, select options for courses and colleges from the login.

3. Check all the options and ensure that it is in the order of priority.

4. Lock the choices when done.

Note: Candidates can only change their choices until it is locked. After the lapse of the deadline, the entered choices are locked as final.

NIMCET 2020 Seat Allotment

After the NIMCET 2020 choice filling, NIT releases the seat allotment result in the candidate’s login. The allocation of seat is done on the basis of NIMCET rank and choices submitted by the candidates.

First Allotment – It is most awaited allotment and most of the seats in the colleges are filled in this round. Candidates can either accept the seat and go for further round of counselling or opt fr round 2 of counselling.

Second Allotment – After the release of NIMCET 2020 counselling seat allotment result, those candidates who have not secured a seat in the first allotment or want to upgrade their first allotment can apply for the second round as per schedule. They are required to register again, they can use the login credentials of same as generated in first round.  

“Upgradation” – Candidates who are not satisfied with the allotment in first round can upgrade their seats in the second round. They have to leave the seat allotment and again have to fill form for the second round.

Third allotment – The third allotment is held for the vacant seats in NITs, after round 2. Left out candidate can exercise their fresh options for the allotment. After the first and second allotments, there are two options:

• First, to finalise the seat allotted to them and join the institute allotted to them.
• Second, to appear for the next round of counselling in order to get a seat in their higher preference choices of the institutes.

NIMCET 2020 Provisional Allotment Letter

After the allotment of seats, the next step in NIMCET 2020 counselling is issuance of allotment letter. allotment letter. To download the allotment letter, candidates need to enter the login Id and password. Allotment letter carries the allotted center, and the date, time for the verification process. Candidates have to reach at the center along with allotment letter for verification and admission process.

NIMCET 2020 Document Verification and Reporting

At the reporting center, candidates who have been allocated seats have to appear for the documents verification process. The time and date is mentioned in the allotment letter. Candidates must produce all the documents required at the time counselling to get admission into NIT.

List of the documents required for the NIMCET 2020 document verification 

• NIMCET seat allotment letter
• Rank Card of NIMCET 2020
• NIMCET 2020 Hall ticket
• Qualifying examination marksheet
• QE certificates
• Income Certificates
• 10th + 12th mark sheet
• Date of Birth Proof
• Caste Certificate
• 4 Passport size photograph
• Payment receipt.

NIMCET 2020 Participating Institutes and Seat Details

The participating institutes for NIMCET counselling, with the estimated seat intake, are as follows.

Note: Seat intake is on the basis of last year’s data.

Other Participating Universities –

• University of Hyderabad
• Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha
• Harcourt Butler Technical University

About NIMCET

NIT MCA Common Entrance Test (NIMCET) is a national level entrance exam conducted by 10 NITs on a rotational basis. It is conducted for admission in Master’s in Computer Application (MCA) courses in selected National Institutes of Technology (NITs), University of Hyderabad (UoH), Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University (IPU) and Harcourt Butler Technical University. The admission is granted on the basis of rank, in the NIMCET counselling 2020.

About NIT

National Institutes of Technology (NITs) are autonomous institutes. In all, there are 31 NITs and first one to be established was NIT Allahabad. It opened in the year 2001 and following it, NIT Bhopal was founded in the year 1960. All the NITs offers various undergraduate and postgraduates courses. There are around 21,133 seats in undergraduates courses and 10,550 seats for postgraduate programs in all the NITs. In NIRF 2019 ranking, around 22 NITs have ranked among the top 200 institutes.

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