JoSAA 2019 Registration - Dates, Eligibility, Choice Filling

JoSAA Registration 2019: Joint Seat Allocation Authority abbreviated as JoSAA is an authority which takes the responsibility for organizing the counseling mainly for qualified students of JEE Main and JEE Advanced. The authority is set up by the Ministry of Human Resource Development. Through this centralized counseling, qualifiers are allotted seat in any of the 23 IITs, 23 IIITS, 31 NITs, and 23 other GFTIs. In order to take part in the counseling, candidates have to register and fill their preferred choices of college and course.

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JoSAA 2019 Registration / Counselling

JoSAA 2019 Registration will commence from the second week of June 2019 tentatively. Moreover, before the final allotment of seats, mock seat allotment will be organized in 2 rounds. JoSAA will be conducted in seven rounds and sets will be allotted to aspirants based on their rank and choices filled. There are around 37,000 seats available in various participating institutes for accepting the admission of eligible applicants.

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JoSAA 2019 Important Dates

The table below displays all the tentative dates of JoSAA 2019. The final dates will be soon updated on the official website when released by the concerned authority.

Events Dates
Registration & filling choices Start 16th June 2019
Registration & filling choices Start (For AAT) 21st June 2019
Display of Mock Seat Allocation-1 22nd June 2019
Display of Mock Seat Allocation-2 24th June 2019
Last Date for Registration & Choice Filling 25th June 2019
Reconciliation of data, Seat Allocation, verification and validation 26th June 2019
Seat Allocation (Round 1) 27th June 2019
Document Verification and Acceptance of Seat by reporting at Reporting Centres (Round 1) 28th June – 2nd July 2019
Display of seats filled/availability status 3rd July 2019
Seat allocation (2nd Round) 3rd July 2019
Document Verification and Acceptance/withdrawal of Seat by reporting at Reporting Centres (Round 2) 4th – 5th July 2019
Display of seats filled/availability status 6th July 2019
Seat allocation (Round 3) 6th July 2019
Document Verification and Acceptance/withdrawal of Seat by reporting at Reporting Centres (Round 3) 7th – 8th July 2019
Display of seats filled/availability status 9th July 2019
Seat Allocation (Round 4) 9th July 2019
Document Verification and Acceptance of Seat by reporting at Reporting Centres (Round 4) 10th – 11th July 2019
Display of seats filled/availability status 12th July 2019
Seat allocation (Round 5) 12th July 2019
Document Verification and Acceptance/withdrawal of Seat by reporting at Reporting Centres (Round 5) 13th – 14th July 2019
Display of seats filled/availability status 15th July 2019
Seat allocation (Round 6) 15th July 2019
Document Verification and Acceptance/withdrawal of Seat by reporting at Reporting Centres (Round 6)
LAST ROUND FOR SEAT WITHDRAWAL
16th – 17th July 2019
Display of seats filled/availability status 18th July 2019
Seat Allocation (Round 7) 18th July 2019
Document Verification and Acceptance of Seat by
reporting at Reporting Centres/Admitting Institutes
(Round 7)
19th July 2019
Document Verification and Acceptance of Seat by
reporting at Reporting Centres/Admitting Institutes
(Round 7) WITHDRAWAL OF SEAT at participating
Institutes
19th – 23rd July 2019

JoSAA Eligibility 2019

There is no specific JoSAA 2019 eligibility prescribed for candidates, in fact, students have to satisfy the eligibility criteria of the participating institutes. For instance, getting admitted into IIITs, NFTIs or other GFTIs requires that candidates fulfill the eligibility criteria of JEE Main while getting admitted into IITs require that applicants fulfill the eligibility criteria of JEE Advanced.

JoSAA 2019 Registration and Choice Filling

Candidates who will qualify JEE Main/JEE Advanced and whose names will be there in the JoSAA 2019 rank list will be able to register for JoSAA 2019 followed by the choice filling in the second week of June 2019. The steps are mentioned below in detail:

Step 1 – Online Registration

Candidates who want to register for JEE Main have to login into their account using their JEE Main roll number and password while candidates who want to register for JEE Advanced have to log in using their JEE Advanced roll number and password. Once the student will be logged in, he or she will be able to observe a number of basic details. Candidates have to check all these details and make sure that they are correct.

Note: Candidates can only modify the contact details.

Step 2 – Filling of Choices

In this step, aspirants have the facility to select the choice of B.Tech discipline and college as per their preference and interest. However, candidates will be able to select the choices from the list made available according to their qualification. Once an individual will select the choices he or she has to arrange them in priority order using the “Arrange Filled Choices” option.

Step 3 – Locking of Filled Choices

It is very important for aspirants to lock the choices after they have been filled. If candidates do not lock their filled choices then the conducting authority will automatically lock the choices previously selected by an individual.

NOTE – No changes can be made once the choices will be locked.

Step 4 – Take a Printout of Selected Choices

Once the choices will be locked, students must take a printout of the selected choices for future use.

JoSAA Mock Seat Allotment 2019

The authority will first conduct the JoSAA 2019 mock seat allotment with the help of which students will gain an idea about their chances of getting admission in the desired college based on the choices filled and the rank obtained. By this idea, candidates will be able to make changes in the choices filled after the result will be announced for this mock seat allotment of JoSAA 2019.

JoSAA Counselling 2019

  • There are various steps that are included in the JoSAA 2019 Counselling like registration, filling of choices, mock allotment, seat allotment, etc.
  • All the qualified candidates who are eligible for the counseling have to do JoSAA 2019 Registration first.
  • After registration, they have to fill the preferred choices of course and college.
  • Once the registration and choice filling will be done by an individual, the mock allotment will be conducted in two rounds and based on its result, applicants can edit their choices.
  • After completion of mock allotment, applicants have to go through all the 7 rounds of seat allotment which will depend upon the choices filled and rank secured by an applicant.
  • If an individual will be allotted a seat then he or she has to download the Seat Allotment Letter and pay the requisite fee of Rs 35,000 for accepting the allotted seat
  • After the payment has been deposited, applicants have to report at the allocated centre for verification of documents.
  • Furthermore, when the documents will be successfully verified, students have to report at the allotted institute in order to confirm their seat.
  • If any candidate fails to report at the reporting centre then it will lead into cancellation of the allotted seat.

Key Points of JoSAA 2019 Registration and Choice Filling

Here are some of the key points related to the JoSAA Registration 2019 and choice filling:

  1. Check the eligibility criteria before registering for JoSAA 2019.
  2. Only the qualified applicants of JEE Main or JEE Advanced are eligible to register
  3. Candidates will be able to register only via online mode.
  4. The list of courses and colleges will be available according to the eligibility and qualification of an individual
  5. Candidates must check and confirm the choices selected as modification will be not allowed once the choices will be locked.