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Design and build physical things

Machines, structures, power systems, vehicles, factories. The work of turning a requirement into something that exists and holds up.

What the work actually is

  • Working out whether a design will hold, move or heat the way it is meant to
  • Being on site or on a shop floor while something is actually built
  • Testing, measuring and correcting — most of engineering is finding out why it did not work

Subjects that keep this open

  • Physics
  • Mathematics
  • Chemistry

Guidance, not a rule. Each route publishes its own subject requirements, and those are what count.

5 recorded routes

Every way in that we have mapped

Ordered by when you can start, not by how well known they are — so the route that begins after Class 10 comes first.

  1. After Class 10Open entry, or admission on Class 10 or 12 marks

    Diploma after Class 10, then join a degree in its second year

    1. Step 1. Take a three-year polytechnic diploma after Class 10 instead of Classes 11 and 12.
    2. Step 2. You can go straight to work as a technician or junior engineer at the end of it.
    3. Step 3. Or use lateral entry to join the second year of a B.Tech, finishing the degree in three more years.

    This is the route most students are never told about. It reaches the same degree, starts two years earlier, and does not pass through JEE at any point. West Bengal admits through JEXPO; other states run their own equivalent, and admission is often on Class 10 marks alone.

    Where to check this

  2. After Class 12Selective, with more places than the best-known routes

    A state engineering entrance, for colleges in your own state

    1. Step 1. Sit the state entrance examination — WBJEE in West Bengal.
    2. Step 2. Admission is to engineering colleges in that state, with places reserved for students domiciled there.

    A separate examination with its own paper and its own competition. Many students sit both this and JEE Main; a rank in one has no bearing on the other.

    Where to check this

  3. After Class 12Many more applicants than places

    A university’s own entrance test

    1. Step 1. Sit the institution’s own examination — BITSAT for BITS Pilani, Goa and Hyderabad.
    2. Step 2. Admission is to that institution only, on its own rules.

    Independent of JEE entirely. Several private universities run their own tests on the same pattern.

    Where to check this

  4. After Class 12Many more applicants than places

    JEE Main and then JEE Advanced, for the IITs

    1. Step 1. Qualify in JEE Main first — JEE Advanced cannot be entered directly.
    2. Step 2. Sit JEE Advanced in the same year.
    3. Step 3. Admission to the IITs is on that rank, through JoSAA counselling.

    Two gates rather than one. Not clearing it closes the IITs and closes nothing else on this page.

    Where to check this

  5. After Class 12Many more applicants than places

    JEE Main, then an NIT, IIIT or centrally funded institute

    1. Step 1. Sit JEE Main in Class 12.
    2. Step 2. Seats at the NITs, IIITs and other centrally funded institutes are allocated by JoSAA and CSAB counselling on that rank.

    The best-known route, and the reason so many students believe it is the only one. It is one of five on this page.

    Where to check this

Before you plan around any of these

Every route above links to the body that runs it. Eligibility, age limits, medical standards, subject requirements and dates are set by those bodies and change between cycles — we record what the route is and where to check it, and we do not track its dates. Read the official page before you decide anything.

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