Tag: Jee Main

Around 1 lakh students from Odisha will be appearing for the JEE Main 2021 Session 4 exam.

While the JEE-Mains is conducted for admission to engineering colleges across the country, it is considered as a qualifying test for the JEE-Advanced.

Bhubaneswar: Pragyana Chakrabarti from Bhubaneswar emerged as the Odisha topper by securing 63rd position in the Joint Entrance Examination Main (JEE Main), the results of which were declared on April 30. Pragyana is a +2 student at the Naidu +2 Science College here and had been preparing for the exam for the past two years. […]

Bhubaneswar: Results of the second paper of Joint Entrance Examination Main (JEE Main) for B.Arch and B.Plan are likely to be declared today, informed CBSE sources here. Students can visit www.jeemain.nic.in and www.results.nic.in and get details about their results and rank card after the announcement. Yesterday the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), which conducts […]

Bhubaneswar: Seats at engineering colleges in the State are likely to fall vacant this year as well due to a dismal number of students registering for the JEE Main entrance so far. OJEE Chairman Tushar Kant Nath informed only 22,500 students have registered for the all-India entrance test so far. As per the AICTE guidelines […]

Bhubaneswar: A day after the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) came out with a notification for Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Main 2018, the Odisha Private Engineering College Association (OPECA) on Friday urged the Odisha government to not participate in it till the proposed ‘One Country One Examination’ concept is implemented. OPECA members on Friday […]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Private Engineering College Association (OPECA) has once again raked up the issue of large vacancies dogging several colleges in the State at the policy planning body meeting of technical education held on Monday and urged the State government to opt out of JEE (Main) and increase the quota for other-State students. “At the […]

Bhubaneswar: Expressing concern over poor admission rate, Odisha Private Engineering College Association (OPECA) has now sought help from Odisha government to address the problem. Worried over large scale vacancies particularly in B-Tech course, OPECA has urged State government to conduct OJEE instead of participating in JEE (Main) to fill up the vacancies. According to OPECA […]

Bhubaneswar: A fake examinee appearing JEE Main at Buxi Jagabandhu English Medium (BJEM) School here was arrested yesterday. He was identified as Sundar Mohan Singh, a resident of Rangamatia in Mayurbhanj district. Police also nabbed one of his associate, Rajesh Bhol, from Dumduma in the Capital city. Sundar was appearing the examination on behalf of […]

Bhubaneswar: Around 45,000 students of the State will sit for the pan-India JEE Main 2017 test, conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), at 82 exam centres spread across six cities including Bhubaneswar and Cuttack today. The JEE Main entrance test will be held in two sittings. Students, who were asked to report […]

Bhubaneswar: Taking note of the poor turnout of the candidates from Odisha in the online registration for the JEE Main examination scheduled on April 2 next year as Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has made Aadhaar card mandatory for students at the time of their registration, the state government has requested the CBSE chairperson […]

Bhubaneswar: To facilitate the students of the state having no Aadhaar card which has been made mandatory by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) for the JEE Main examinations scheduled on April 2, the Odisha government had made elaborate arrangements. “CBSE has made Aadhaar card mandatory for students at the time of their registration […]

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government, which had taken part in the all India Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Main examination this year, will also take part in the test scheduled on April 2 next year. However, submission of Aadhaar card details at the time of applying for the JEE Main has been made mandatory this time by […]

The State Assembly on Monday passed the Odisha Professional Educational Institutions (Amendment) Bill, 2016, giving technical colleges in the State the discretion to take a decision on the admission of students in case seats fall vacant after two rounds of counseling

Bhubaneswar: The dilemma over choosing between Odisha Joint Entrance Examination (OJEE) and national JEE Main exam scores for admissions into next year’s BTech stream, has intensified once again. While Odisha Private Engineering College Association (OPECA) continues to vehemently support the OJEE, the State government has said that since the matter is sub-judice, decision can be […]