JoSAA 2018: The first round of seat allotment has been published on Wednesday, June 27 by the Joint Seat Allocation Authority (JoSAA) 2018. The students can check the seat allotment through the official website, josaa.nic.in for admission into IITs, NITs, IITs and other GFTIs. About 36,000 seats are available in 23 Indian Institute of Technology (IITs), 31 National Institute of Technology (NITs), 23 Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIITs) and 20 government funded technical institutions (GFTIs) are offering admissions to the students this year. JoSAA will conduct seven rounds, that is, the first through 7th rounds of seat allocation for academic programs offered by Institutes under JoSAA 2018. All those candidates who have been allotted a seat have to pay the seat acceptance fee (through SBI e-Challan/SBI NetBanking/SBI debit cards) and get the documents verified at any reporting centre (josaa.nic.in) for provisional seat acceptance. Read | Top 25 engineering colleges in India JoSAA results 2018: Steps to check Step 1: Visit the official website mentioned above Step 2: Enter the required details gender, state code of eligibility and nationality Step 2: Remember to fill your choices of institutes and branches in decreasing order of preference. Step 4: Once done, the candidate must ensure to lock their choices. Those who have been allotted seats have to pay the 'seat acceptance fee' and report for document verification and acceptance of seat at reporting centres between June 28 and July 2, 2018, between 10 am and 5 pm. One can find the list of reporting centres at the official website itself. The Joint Seat Allocation Authority (JoSAA) is set up by the HRD Ministry to regulate centralised admissions in premier engineering institutions will publish JoSAA 2017 mock allotment for the registered students. After the publication of JEE Main ranks, the students were asked to register themselves and provide choices of preferred institutes and courses at JoSAA website. For admission in the IIT, a candidate needs to score a certain minimum performance in Class 12 (75 per cent marks, or 80th percentile), which year the candidate passed Class 12, age (25 years for General/OBC-NCL, 30 years for SC/ST), performance above a certain threshold in JEE Main (roughly top 1 lakh ranks for General, and corresponding numbers for other categories), marks in each subject in JEE Advanced (10% for General, 9% for OBC-NCL, 5% for SC/ST/PwD), and marks scored in all three subjects combined (35% for General, 31.5% for OBC-NCL, 17.5% for SC/ST/PwD).
