SC/ST Candidates

15% and 7.5% seats in each course are reserved for candidates belonging to SC and ST categories, respectively. Candidates belonging to these categories are admitted on the basis of relaxed criteria (compared to GE/DS category candidates). In case all the reserved seats are not filled, a further relaxation is made in the admission criteria and a limited number of candidates are admitted to a Preparatory Course of one-year duration. This course attempts to prepare the students in Physics, Mathematics, and Chemistry. On successful completion of the course, the students will be offered direct admission to the undergraduate programmes in July 2007 against the unfilled reserved seats for JEE-2006.

SC and ST candidates will be required to produce the original caste/tribe certificate issued by a competent authority (list given in Appendix II) at the time of counselling, failing which they will not be considered for admission. Seats remaining vacant in these categories shall not be filled by candidates belonging to any other category.

Persons with Disabilities (PD)

3% seats are reserved for PD (including leprosy-cured) candidates, as specified by the Government of India, who are otherwise fit to pursue the course and qualify JEE with relaxed norms relevant to this category. For any category of disability (viz., locomotor, visual, speech and hearing), benefit would be given to those candidates who have at least 40% permanent physical impairment in relation to a body part / system / extremity / extremities / whole body, etc.

The candidates in this category will be required to be certified by a Medical Board. The Medical Board will decide the following:
Whether the candidate qualifies for the benefits under this category, and
If the disability is likely to interfere in his/her studies.

The Medical Board duly constituted for this purpose shall meet at the time of counselling at IIT Delhi on June 19, 2006 at 3.00 p.m. Candidates, who are not certified by the Medical Board as PD, will not be counselled under this category.
The decision of the Medical Board shall be held final.

Two seats are available for preferential allotment of courses in each Institute for children of defence/paramilitary personnel killed or permanently disabled in action during war or peacetime operations (DS category). To avail this preferential allotment, candidates must qualify in the General Category and produce the relevant certificate in original issued by a competent authority in the Directorate of Resettlement and Rehabilitation, New Delhi (under the Ministry of Defence, Govt. of India) or in the Ministry of Home Affairs, Govt. of India, as applicable, at the time of counselling.

Criteria for Qualifying Examination

Candidates applying for JEE-2006 should have either completed or appearing in 2006 in any one of the following qualifying examinations :
The final examination of the 10+2 system, conducted by any recognized Central/State Board, such as Central Board of Secondary Education, New Delhi; Council for Indian School Certificate Examination, New Delhi; etc.;
Intermediate or two-year Pre-University Examination conducted by a recognized Board/ University.
Final Examination of the two-year course of the Joint Services Wing of the National Defence Academy.
General Certificate Education (GCE) Examination (London/Cambridge/Sri Lanka) at the Advanced (A) level.
High School Certificate Examination of the Cambridge University.
Any Public School/Board/University Examination in India or in any foreign country recognized by the Association of Indian Universities as equivalent to 10+2 system.
H.S.C. Vocational Examination.
Senior Secondary School Examination conducted by the National Open School with a minimum of five subjects.
3 or 4-year Diploma recognized by AICTE or a State Board of Technical Education.

In case the relevant qualifying examination is not a public examination, the candidate must have passed at least one public (Board or Pre-University) examination at an earlier level.

Eligibility Criteria for Candidates appearing in qualifying examination in 2006

(i) The candidates belonging to the general category must secure a minimum of 60% marks in aggregate in their Qualifying Examination. Candidates belonging to SC, ST and PD categories must secure a minimum of 55% in aggregate in the Qualifying Examination. If any Board awards only letter grades without providing an equivalent percentage of marks on the grade sheet, the candidate should obtain a certificate from the Board specifying equivalent marks, and submit it at the time of counselling. In case, such a certificate is not provided by the candidate, the decision of the Joint Implementation Committee regarding his/her eligibility shall be held final.

(ii) With effect from 2006, a candidate is allowed only two attempts to write JEE. Furthermore, he/she is allowed to write JEE only in the year in which he/she passes the qualifying examination and/or in the following year.

(iii) Candidates, who join any of the IITs, IT-BHU Varanasi and ISM Dhanbad through JEE-2006, will not be permitted to appear in JEE in future.

One-Time Exception

Candidates, who have passed their Qualifying Examination in 2005 or earlier, will be permitted to appear in JEE-2006, as a last chance, irrespective of the marks secured in the Qualifying Examination, or the number of earlier attempts at JEE, subject to their satisfying age limit criteria specified in section 8.5. This exception is also applicable to those candidates who are currently registered in any of the IITs, IT-BHU, Varanasi, and ISM, Dhanbad.

Important Notes

(i) Those candidates who will be appearing in the qualifying examination in 2007 or later are not eligible to apply for JEE-2006.

(ii) All provisional admissions to candidates who are appearing in the qualifying examination in the year 2006 will stand cancelled, if the proof of having passed the Qualifying Examination, as per the eligibility criteria specified in section 8.2, is not submitted to the concerned Institute latest by September 30, 2006.

(iii) All admissions will be subject to verification of facts from the original certificates/documents of the candidates. If an applicant is found ineligible at a later date even after admission to an Institute, his/her admission will be cancelled. The decision of the Joint Admission Board regarding the eligibility of any applicant shall be final.

Date of Birth

Only those candidates, whose date of birth falls on or after October 01, 1981, are eligible for JEE-2006. However, in the case of SC, ST and PD candidates, upper age limit is relaxed by 5 years, i.e., SC, ST and PD candidates, who were born on or after October 01, 1976, are eligible. Only the date of birth as recorded in the High School/first Board/Pre-University Certificate will be taken as authentic. Candidates must produce this certificate in original as a proof of their age at the time of counselling, failing which they will be disqualified.

Physical Fitness

All qualified candidates will have to submit a Physical Fitness certificate from a Registered Medical Practitioner in the prescribed format that will be made available to them at an appropriate time. They will be admitted only if they are physically fit for pursuing a course of study at the participating Institutes.

Special Requirements for Mining Engineering and Mining Machinery Courses

Candidates opting for these courses should make sure that they are free from colour blindness. They will be required to submit a certificate from a Registered Medical Practitioner to this effect at the time of counselling. The standard of visual acuity with or without glasses will be adhered strictly for candidates seeking admission in Mining as per DGMS Circular 14 of 1972. Persons with one-eyed vision are not permitted to work underground. Candidates with above limitations are not allowed to opt for admission to Mining Engineering or Mining Machinery Engineering.

Women Candidates for Mining Courses
Section 46 (1) of the Mines Act, 1952 states that No woman shall, notwithstanding anything contained in any other law, be employed (a) in any part of a mine which is below ground, (b) in any mine above ground except between the hours 6 a.m. and 7 p.m.. Women candidates are not admitted to Mining Engineering and Mining Machinery Engineering at ISM Dhanbad, whereas the corresponding programmes at IIT Kharagpur and IT-BHU, Varanasi have no such restriction.

The Admit Card for the examination will be sent by Registered Post/Speed Post only to those eligible candidates who have submitted the Application Form, complete in all respects, on or before 17:00 hours on January 06, 2006. The Institutes will not be responsible for any postal delay or irregularity resulting in non-delivery of the Admit Card. No duplicate Admit Card will be issued.

If the Admit Card is not received by March 20, 2006, the candidate should obtain his/her Registration Number and Examination Centre from the Institute of his/her zone through phone (IVRS)/ Website. On receiving these data, the candidate should write his/her Name, Application No., Registration No. and Examination Centre on two identical halves of an A4-size paper. He/she should then affix a photograph and put signature (as given in the Application Form) on each of them. The candidate should get the photographs and the signatures attested by the Head of the Institution last attended/gazetted officer/notary public, and meet the IIT Representative with this paper on April 09, 2006 in the office of the Presiding Officer at the Examination Centre. The candidate must bring the Acknowledgement Card for the receipt of his/her Application Form.

Based on the cut-off marks in the individual subjects as well as aggregate marks in the Examination, a common merit list will be prepared without any relaxed criteria. In addition, separate merit lists of candidates belonging to SC, ST, and PD categories will be prepared with different relaxed norms relevant to their categories. While preparing these merit lists, if a candidate belongs to more than one category of relaxed norms, he/she shall be considered only in the category in which he/she gets the maximum benefit. There will not be any separate list of wait-listed candidates.

Tie Breaking

Tie breaking criterion adopted for awarding ranks to the candidates who have scored same aggregate marks is as follows:
For each subject, the mean marks will be calculated on the basis of marks obtained by those candidates who have appeared in all three subjects. A candidate will be ranked higher, if he/she has scored higher marks in the subject having the lowest mean marks. If two or more candidates score the same marks in the above mentioned subject, then the marks of the subject with second lowest mean marks will be used for breaking the tie. Candidates scoring the same marks in all three subjects will be given the same rank.

Candidates qualified for counselling will be informed of their All India Ranks (AIR) by post and will be called for counselling in order of their AIR. A candidate can also obtain this information on the official website of IIT, IVRS or by calling the JEE office from where he/she received the admit card, one day after the declaration of the results of JEE-2006. In case a qualified candidate does not receive the counselling letter, the candidate must still appear for counselling on the dates specified on the back cover of brochure at the Institute from where he/she had received the admit card.

During counselling, various documents for verifying identity, age, marks sheet of qualifying examination, and category, should be brought, all in original with two photocopies of each. On failing to establish the authenticity of any one of the above documents, the candidate will not be considered for admission.

In addition, the candidates must bring a physical fitness certificate from a Registered Medical Practitioner in a format that will be made available to them at an appropriate time.

General: Units and dimensions, dimensional analysis; least count, significant figures; Methods of measurement and error analysis for physical quantities pertaining to the following experiments: Experiments based on using vernier calipers and screw gauge (micrometer), Determination of g using simple pendulum, Young’s modulus by Searle’s method, Specific heat of a liquid using calorimeter, focal length of a concave mirror and a convex lens using u-v method, Speed of sound using resonance column, Verification of Ohm’s law using voltmeter and ammeter, and specific resistance of the material of a wire using meter bridge and post office box.

Mechanics: Kinematics in one and two dimensions (Cartesian coordinates only), projectiles; Uniform Circular motion; Relative velocity.

Newton’s laws of motion; Inertial and uniformly accelerated frames of reference; Static and dynamic friction; Kinetic and potential energy; Work and power; Conservation of linear momentum and mechanical energy.

Systems of particles; Centre of mass and its motion; Impulse; Elastic and inelastic collisions.

Law of gravitation; Gravitational potential and field; Acceleration due to gravity; Motion of planets and satellites in circular orbits; Escape velocity.

Rigid body, moment of inertia, parallel and perpendicular axes theorems, moment of inertia of uniform bodies with simple geometrical shapes; Angular momentum; Torque; Conservation of angular momentum; Dynamics of rigid bodies with fixed axis of rotation; Rolling without slipping of rings, cylinders and spheres; Equilibrium of rigid bodies; Collision of point masses with rigid bodies.

Linear and angular simple harmonic motions.

Hooke’s law, Young’s modulus.

Pressure in a fluid; Pascal’s law; Buoyancy; Surface energy and surface tension, capillary rise; Viscosity (Poiseuille’s equation excluded), Stoke’s law; Terminal velocity, Streamline flow, equation of continuity, Bernoulli’s theorem and its applications.

Wave motion (plane waves only), longitudinal and transverse waves, superposition of waves; Progressive and stationary waves; Vibration of strings and air columns;Resonance; Beats; Speed of sound in gases; Doppler effect (in sound).

Thermal physics: Thermal expansion of solids, liquids and gases; Calorimetry, latent heat; Heat conduction in one dimension; Elementary concepts of convection and radiation; Newton’s law of cooling; Ideal gas laws; Specific heats (Cv and Cp for monoatomic and diatomic gases); Isothermal and adiabatic processes, bulk modulus of gases; Equivalence of heat and work; First law of thermodynamics and its applications (only for ideal gases). Blackbody radiation: absorptive and emissive powers; Kirchhoff’s law; Wien’s displacement law, Stefan’s law.

Electricity and magnetism: Coulomb’s law; Electric field and potential; Electrical potential energy of a system of point charges and of electrical dipoles in a uniform electrostatic field; Electric field lines; Flux of electric field; Gauss’s law and its application in simple cases, such as, to find field due to infinitely long straight wire, uniformly charged infinite plane sheet and uniformly charged thin spherical shell.

Capacitance; Parallel plate capacitor with and without dielectrics; Capacitors in series and parallel; Energy stored in a capacitor.

Electric current; Ohm’s law; Series and parallel arrangements of resistances and cells; Kirchhoff’s laws and simple applications; Heating effect of current.

Biot-Savart’s law and Ampere’s law; Magnetic field near a current-carrying straight wire, along the axis of a circular coil and inside a long straight solenoid; Force on a moving charge and on a current-carrying wire in a uniform magnetic field.

Magnetic moment of a current loop; Effect of a uniform magnetic field on a current loop; Moving coil galvanometer, voltmeter, ammeter and their conversions.

Electromagnetic induction: Faraday’s law, Lenz’s law; Self and mutual inductance; RC, LR and LC circuits with d.c. and a.c. sources.

Optics: Rectilinear propagation of light; Reflection and refraction at plane and spherical surfaces; Total internal reflection; Deviation and dispersion of light by a prism; Thin lenses; Combinations of mirrors and thin lenses; Magnification.

Wave nature of light: Huygen’s principle, interference limited to Young’s double-slit experiment.

Modern physics: Atomic nucleus; Alpha, beta and gamma radiations; Law of radioactive decay; Decay constant; Half-life and mean life; Binding energy and its calculation; Fission and fusion processes; Energy calculation in these processes.

Photoelectric effect; Bohr’s theory of hydrogen-like atoms; Characteristic and continuous X-rays, Moseley’s law; de Broglie wavelength of matter waves.