Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) is an all India common entrance examination conducted to provide admission in various engineering courses. The entrance examination is being conducted into two parts, JEE-Main and JEE-Advanced. Candidates who clear IIT-JEE main examination are eligible to appear for IIT-JEE advance which provides and entry to IITs.

Exam Structure for JEE main:

JEE Main 2015 shall have two papers, Paper-1 (B.E / B.Tech) and Paper-2 (B.Arch / B.Planning). Candidates may take Paper-1 (B.E /B.Tech), or Paper-2 (B.Arch / B.Planning), or both as per the courses, they are seeking admission for.

The paper would be of 3 hour duration and there would be two papers.

Paper Subject Type of Questions Mode of Exam

Paper I Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics

Objective type with equal weightage to Physics, Chemistry & Mathematics

Pen & Paper-based or Compute-based

Paper II PCM, Drawing and Aptitude test

Objective type questions to test drawing aptitude

Pen and Paper-based only

There would be a total of 96 questions in the exam, and the maximum marks would be 360. Each correct answer by the student would provide 4 marks and each wrong answer by the candidate would result in the deduction of 1 mark.Number of attempts: The number of attempts that a candidate can make for JEE Main is limited to three. 

Candidates can check below salient features of Exam Pattern of JEE Advanced 2016 along with details of last year’s question paper in order to get a fair idea about the actual exam.

Paper 1 (10 sets, 0 to 9)- Total 60 questions of 264 marksSubjects Sections 1 Section 2 Section 3

Physics 8 Questions 10 Questions 2 Questions of Match the following type

Chemistry 8 Questions 10 Questions 2 Questions of Match the following type

Mathematics

8 Questions 10 Questions 2 Questions of Match the following type

Marking Scheme –Subjects Sections

1Section 2

Section 3

Correct Answer 4 4 2

Incorrect Answer 0 -2 -1

Not-attempted 0 0 0

Paper 2- Total 60 questions of 240 marksSubjects Section 1 Section 2 Section 3

Physics 8 Questions 8 Questions 2 Questions of Paragraph type

Chemistry 8 Questions 8 Questions 2 Questions of Paragraph type

Mathematics

8 Questions 8 Questions 2 Questions of Paragraph type

Marking Scheme –Subjects Section

1Section 2

Section 3

Correct Answer 4 4 4

Incorrect Answer

0 -2 -2

Not-attempted 0 0 0

JEE Advanced 2016 Question Papers: The question papers will consist of objective type (multiple choice) and

numerical answer type questions designed to test comprehension, reasoning and analytical ability of candidates.

Incorrect answers to some of the questions will be awarded negative marks.

The question paper will be in either English or Hindi. Candidates must exercise the choice of question paper language while registering for JEE Advanced 2016. Change of question paper language will not be entertained after the registration.

JEE Advanced 2016 Optical Response Sheet The answer sheet of JEE Advanced 2016 is a machine-readable ORS. Candidates will be given a two-page ORS. The two pages of the ORS will

have the same lay-out. The first page of the ORS is machine readable. It is designed so as to

leave impressions of the responses on the second page. They should not separate or disturb the alignment of the two pages of the

ORS at any stage and under any circumstance. The answers to all the questions should be marked on the first page of

the ORS by darkening the appropriate bubble or bubbles (as per the instructions given in the question paper).

Candidates should use black ball point pen for darkening the bubbles. They should apply adequate pressure to ensure that a proper impression

is made on the second page of the ORS. Other instructions for darkening the bubbles will be printed on the question paper and candidates must strictly adhere to these instructions. The second page of the ORS will be handed over to them by the invigilator at the end of the examination.

The IIT JEE (Advanced) 2015 exams were held on May 24.While 102,385 male students registered for the IIT JEE advanced 2015 exam, 96,895 actually appeared and 23,407 passed. Of the 22,355 girl students who registered, 20,342 appeared and 3,049 cleared the exam.