National Testing Agency has notified the time at which application form of JEE Main 2020 will be available from today. As per the update at nta.ac.in, the application form will be available from 11 am today at jeemain.nic.in. Students who wish to appear in the Joint Entrance Examination Mains can apply for the same online.
Replica of application form of JEE Main 2020 was issued yesterday. It shows the step by step process of applying for the exam. There are a few changes in the form filling process this time. Therefore students are advised to go through the document before applying.
The information bulletin of JEE Main 2020 is also available. It has been released at nta.ac.in a little while ago. This time, there will be three papers instead of two. The three papers will be that of BE/B.Tech, that is for engineering aspirants, B.Arch that is for architecture aspirants, and B.Plan that is for planning aspirants.
NTA was initially supposed to release the JEE Main 2020 application form yesterday as per the NTA exam schedule 2020. However yesterday in the morning, the agency published a notification saying that it is postponing the form filling process commencement by a day. However this is not affecting the last date for form filling. Last date to fill and submit application form of Joint Entrance Examination is September 30. The last date to pay fee is October 1.
Major changes have been introduced in the exam pattern. The number of questions in engineering entrance exam have reduced, non multiple choice questions have been introduced, also a whole new paper for the planning students has been separately introduced. A separate public notice about the new exam pattern of JEE Main 2020 has been published, also at nta.ac.in.
As soon as application form releases at 11 am today, students can start with it. There are four steps – apply for online registration, fill online application form, upload scanned photo and signature, pay examination fee. In the first step, to do the registration, students have to enter their name, identifying document details, date of birth, gender, qualifying exam roll number, address, and create a password, select security question, and enter its answer. After this process, the application number is generated, that and the password, should be kept safely as it will be required for all future purposes.
Then one has to fill the online application form. Here, they have to select their category, select exam applying for, select exam city preferences, select question paper medium, qualification status, class 10 details, class 12 details, and parent details. Then begins image upload, where one has to upload photograph and signature. Former should be between 10 to 200 kb. Finally, one has to pay the fee. A printout of the filled in form should be kept safely for future reference.