All India Engineering Entrance Examination
AIEEE
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, mainly 30 National Institutes of
Technology (NITs) and 5 Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIITs).[1]
The examination is generally held on the last Sunday of April and results are
announced in the last week of May or the first week of June. Candidates are
ranked on an all-India basis and state basis. Thus, they have an All India Rank
(AIR) and a State Rank (SR).
History of AIEEE
Programme of Action (PoA), 1992 under the National Policy on
Education (NPE), 1986 envisaged conduct of a common entrance examination on all
India basis for admission to professional and technical programmes in the
country. For admission to Engineering and Architecture/Planning programmes,
Government of India vide Resolution dated 18th October 2001 has laid down a
Three – Exam Scheme (JEE and AIEEE at the National Level and the State Level
Engineering Entrance Examinations (SLEEE) for State Level Institutions – with
an option to join AIEEE). This takes care of varying admission standards in
these programmes and helps in maintenance of professional standards. This also
solves problems of overlaps and reduces physical, mental and financial burden
on students and their parents due to multiplicity of entrance examinations.
The Tenth All India Engineering Entrance Examination (AIEEE)
was held on 01st May, 2011. 1053807 candidates appeared, out of 1114541
candidates registered, for the examination at 1685 centres located in 86
cities. Approximately, 34311 seats for BE/B.Tech & 1070 seats for
B.Arch/B.Planning in various institutions, namely National Institutes of
Technology, IIITs, Deemed Universities, Technical Institutions, Delhi
Technological University, Delhi and other Govt. funded Institutions were
offered through this examination A centralized online counselling had been
organized for filling up the All India seats by the Central Counselling Board..
The States/Institutes listed below used AIEEE-2011 ranks to fill seats through
their own counselling:- West Bengal, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Uttarakhand,
Punjab University, Chandigarh, Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh, Delhi
Technological University, Delhi and N.S.I.T, Delhi under Delhi University.
Keeping in view greater variety of subjects offered by
different School Boards at the 10+2 (Class – XII) level, more subject
combinations in qualifying examination (10+2) would now be possible.
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