JEE Main Online application forms from Nov 1

The newly introduced Joint Entrance Examination (Main) for admission to various engineering colleges across the country will be conducted in April 2013 for the first time. The examination will be conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) which released a detailed document on examination earlier this month. The application forms for the JEE (Main) 2013 will be available online from Thursday, November 01, 2012. There will be no sale of paper application forms.

The CBSE has set up facilitation centers across the country which will help candidates complete their online application forms. 43 centers have been announced and more are expected to be added over the next few weeks. The services at these centers will be available free of cost.

The document with the details of the examination which was released recently confirmed that the offline mode of the examination will be held on April 07, 2013 and the online mode will be conducted between April 8 and 25, 2013. The document further stated that the blind candidates will be given an extra hour to complete the exam along with the help of writers. The document also revealed that a candidate will be allowed three consecutive attempts for the JEE (Main) examination.