The All India Engineering Entrance Examination (AIEEE), is an examination organized by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) in India. Introduced in the year 2002, this national level competitive test is for admission to various under-graduate engineering and architecture courses in institutes accepting the AIEEE score, including 20 prestigious NITs.^[1] Students opting for B.Tech. are tested in physics, mathematics and chemistry. The test duration is 3 hours but maximum marks and the number of questions vary every year. However equal weightage is given to all the three sections. Students opting for B.Arch. are tested in mathematics and an aptitude test. It is held in the final Sunday of April and results are announced near the end of May. Candidates are ranked on an all India basis and also according to their position in state. Thus, they have an All India Rank (AIR) and a state rank (SR).

Contents 1 Procedure 2 Future 3 List of Participating Institutes 4 References 5 External links

[edit] Procedure

In 2009, around 9,62,000 candidates appeared for the AIEEE across 1460 centers across India and in international centers set up at Dubai and Riyadh^[2]

Though nearly one million students write the exam only a quite few percentage of students are eligible for central counselling or state-specific or category-specific counselling on basis of their AIR. Counselling for SC/ST candidates and SC/ST physically handicapped candidates is done on the first two days. Then the physically handicapped in the Open (OP) category are counselled.Due to large number of students writing aieee it has become more competitive than iit-jee at least quantitatively.

The Pattern keeps varying every year as declared by CBSE, the conducting authority of AIEEE. The level of questions follows the NCERT Syllabus of Class 11 and Class 12. From the past 2 years the total marks of the paper are being declared by CBSE in the prospectus without declaring the number of the questions appearing in the exam on the lines of IIT JEE.

[edit] Future

Reposing Faith in organisational capacity and technical infrastructure of the NIT system the Union Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) has decided to entrust the task of conducting the AIEEE to NITs themselves starting from 2008-09 session itself.
Earlier, the counselling procedure was dealt by a Central Counselling Board (CCB) based at New Delhi.The important decision to this effect was taken by the MHRD on the advice of the NIT Director's meeting who had unanimously advocated transferring of the responsibility for CCB of AIEEE counselling to NITs.
Every year director of a NIT will be the chairman of the CCB along with the selected directors of other institutes in the counselling board. The NITs will conduct the counselling and assume the responsibility of setting question papers as well from the year 2010. Similar to the conduct of the IIT-JEE and counselling by one of the six IITs in the country every year on a rotation basis, one among the 20 NITs in the country would be made a nodal agency for the conduct of AIEEE every year.
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[edit] List of Participating Institutes

Institutes through Central Counselling:

• National Institutes of Technology
• Indian Institutes of Information Technology
• Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology(Proposed)
• Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi
• School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi
• National Institute of Foundry and Forge Technology, Ranchi

Institutes through their own Counselling:

• Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh
• Delhi College of Engineering, New Delhi
• Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology, New Delhi
• Netaji Subhash Engineering College, Kolkata
• Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala
• Jaypee Institute of Information Technology University, Noida
• Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, Gandhinagar
• University Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai
• Army Institute of Technology, Pune
• Nirma Institute of Technology, Ahmedabad ..... to name a few

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• AIEEE Board Government Site.