JEE Advanced 2016 Cutoff will be issued to delimit the number of candidates in the admission process. It is a selection parameter which restricts the number of candidates in the admission and ensures that quality of candidates is maintained in the premier engineering and technical institutes of the country. The finally selected candidates will be offered admission to 16 IITs and 1 ISM. Marks of the candidates in the exam will be declared on 13 June 2016 in online mode. On the basis of marks, cutoff marks will be decided. Final stage is the declaration of All India Rank on the basis of marks and cutoff.
Candidates can check the JEE Advanced cutoff 2016 marks and result on official website of the exam as well as Entrance Corner which will host the direct link to check the marks and AIR. For reference, last year’s cutoff is mentioned here as well. A total of 1.5 lakh candidates will be shortlisted from JEE Main 2015 for JEE Advanced 2016. These candidates will appear for getting admission in the best technical and engineering colleges of the country i.e. IITs and ISM. There are around 10,000 seats which will be filled for UG engineering program. It is necessary to score marks more than the minimum marks benchmark for getting enlisted in the JEE Advanced 2016 Common Merit List. Read the following article for more details on JEE Advanced cutoff, its application and other decisive factors.
Definition Of JEE Advanced Cutoff:
Cutoff is the benchmark of minimum marks which is necessary to be fulfilled by the candidate. If score of a candidate is less than the cutoff, he will not be included in the counselling and seat allotment process. If his score is equal to or more than the cutoff, he will be included in the merit list and called for counselling and seat allotment. Cutoff will be applied at several stages and it is necessary to cross every barrier for final admission. Cutoff can be later on applied in the form of ranking, where the process gets inverted. The candidate with rank lower than or equal to the cutoff rank will be sent further and the one with rank higher than the cutoff will be rejected. By checking the last year’s cutoff, candidate can see the feasibility of getting admission in favorite institute.
Factors Behind JEE Advanced 2016 Cutoff
Some of the factors which will be considered which deciding the cutoff are – number of candidates, number of seats, number of reserved seats, number of participating colleges, previous year admission trends, exam difficulty level, marking scheme, and selection ratio.
Last year JEE Advanced Cutoff Figures:
These figures of cutoff are from 2015 and can be used to find the chances of getting admission in IITs and ISM. It is to be remembered that cutoff may vary by +10 to +20 from the last year stats, so you must calculate the probability accordingly.
(Category – Marks – Last Rank)
- CML – 152 – 999
- PwD – 63 – 243
- Preparatory – 53 – 101
- ST – 63 – 1255
- OBC (NCL) – 117 – 5369
- SC – 74 – 3045
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