JEE Seat Allotment: Process, Documents Required, Available Seats and Important Dates

Students attempting for JEE 2022 exams are eager to know their JEE Seat Allotment. The council offers a choice to the JEE candidates which gives them a sense of how many seats are available in the respective engineering colleges and universities. This is generally announced after the publication of JEE Main 2022 Result and JEE Advanced 2022 Result. 

In this article we will elaborately talk about how to find out the JEE Seat allotment, important dates in that regard and what should a student do after they have found out their JEE Seat allotment. We will be discussing them on the basis of - JEE Main 2022 and JEE Advanced 2022 individually. 

JEE Main 2022 Seat Allotment

The JEE Main 2022 Seat Allotment will be determined by JoSAA. This authority will be releasing the JEE Main 2022 seat allotment announcements in online mode and will be shared at their official web portal. 

In this, the students will have to fill out the JoSAA 2022 registration, this will guarantee that the students are considered for the JEE Main 2022 seat allotment process.  

What will the process be like?

Well, after successful completion of registration the JoSAA will be conducting counselling in many rounds and the JEE Main 2022 seat allotment will be done simultaneously. After each round, the students are required to accept or proceed on to the next admission. 

In this process, the candidates are required to select the following options - Float, Freeze, Slide or Withdrawal. 

We will be discussing this in detail in our further sections. 

JEE Main 2022 Seat Allotment - Important Dates

We will be updating you about all these important dates once we get the authentic information. The students are required to keep checking our website and also the official website to get updates on these dates. 

JEE Main Seat Allotment 2021 - How was the Scenario of Seat Allotment in JEE Main 2021?

The JEE Main 2021 Seat Allotment was performed in one of those top-notch universities that are offering engineering courses. The seats of these reputed engineering schools and colleges which are present across the country were reserved by JoSAA in order to give admission to the JEE Main 2021 batches. 

After the declaration of JEE Main 2021 Result, the JEE Main 2021 Seat Allotment process was initiated. With the official updates, the JEE Main 2021 counselling and seat registration process started in June 2021 via online mode. In this, the students who were successful in securing the JEE Main 2021 Qualifying marks were admitted to this counselling process. 

JEE Main Seat Allotment 2021 - An Overview

Here we are providing an overview of the JEE Main 2021 Seat Allotment:

• The JEE Main 2021 seat allotment process is done so that the students can be admitted to the UG, architecture courses at the IITs, NITs and other reputed colleges. 

• The JEE Main 2021 seat administration process was conducted by JoSAA (Joint Seat Allocation Authority). 

• The qualifier of JEE Main 2021 Exam was admitted in the process of JEE Main 2021 counselling process. 

• There were over 100 institutes and colleges that participated in this JoSAA administration process. 

• In the Union Territories and the States where NIT is not present, the seats were allocated in the following manner:

This was all for the previous year, let us now discuss how will we check the JEE Main 2022 Seat Allotment. 

JEE Main Seat Allotment 2022 - How to Check?

As already mentioned, the JEE Main 2022 Seat Allotment will be announced by JoSAA on its official website. After which, the students are required to follow the following steps:

• The students are required to visit the JEE Main counselling official website which is josaa.nic.in.

• After which, the students are required to click on the link to JEE Main seat allotment.

• This will open a screen where the candidate portal for JoSAA is presented. 

• The students are required to enter the JEE Main 2022 Application number and insert their password, this will help them to proceed further.

• The student will be required to enter the security code which will be provided in the box below and thereby log in.

• After this, the JEE Main 2022 seat allotment results will be presented on the screen.

JEE Main First Round Seat Allotment

The JEE Main First Round Seat Allotment will be done after the conduct of counselling of the first round. The students who will select the freeze option in the first round itself will be allotted colleges and the institutes that are participating in the first round.

Apart from this, the JEE Main Seat Allocation will be published in the announcement of the seat allocation results itself. 

JEE Main 2022 Seat Allotment - Float, Freeze, Slide and Withdraw

After the JEE Main 2022 seat allotment, the students will have these options -  Float, Freeze, Slide, and Withdraw. Accordingly, the students are required to choose one of them. Now, what do they mean? 

• Float - If a candidate aspires to hold on to their seat or wants to upgrade their seat they can choose this option. 

• Freeze - Now if a candidate is satisfied with the seat allocation and does not want to participate in further rounds they can choose the option of ‘freeze’. 

• Slide - Here if the candidate is satisfied with the selection but also would like to upgrade the same, then in that case the candidate is likely to slide. 

• Withdraw - Now if any candidate had already accepted the seat allotted, then the candidate may withdraw. 

After such selection, the candidates are required to pay the fees. Check the fee detail in the next section. 

JEE Main 2022 Seat Allotment - Fee Details

JEE Main 2022 Seat Allocation - The Documents Required for Verification 

Check out the documents which are required in the JEE Main 2022 Seat Allocation: 

• Three passport-size photographs (have to be the same as uploaded during registration).

• A government-issued photo identity card

• Proof of fee payment for JEE Main seat acceptance

• Date of birth proof

• JEE Main 2022 Admit Card

• Class 12 Marksheet

• JEE Main 2022 Score Card

• Category certificate (if applicable).

JEE Advanced Seat Allocation 2022 

The JEE Advanced Seat allocation will be conducted by JoSAA and will be conducted from September 12, 2022. The JEE Advanced eligible candidates are required to register in this seat allotment process. 

The counselling process will be done in the online mode and let us check out the rest of the detail of this section. 

JEE Advanced Seat Allotment Results - Dates of Important Events

The JEE Advanced Seat allotment results and other important dates are chalked out in this table:

JEE Advanced 2022 Counselling and Seat Allotment 2022 - Eligibility Criteria of the Candidate

In order to participate in the JEE Advanced 2022 counselling and seat allotment procedure, there are some criteria which are required to be carried out by the students in order to be eligible for counselling and seat allotment. 

• The Candidates must have attempted a qualified and good rank in JEE Advanced 2022.  

• Minimum 75% marks are scored in the Class 12 exam or like another exam. For Sc/ST/PWD the minimum score is 65%. 

• The candidates who were at the top of the 20 percentile in their 12th exam will also be eligible for the process of counselling and seat allotment process.

JEE Advanced Seat Allotment 2022 - How to Check?

Likewise, the JEE Advanced 2022 Seat Allocation can also be checked by the students once the authority has published the same on their official website. Check the following steps that the students are required to perform once the seat allotment results are published:

• The students are required to visit the JEE Advanced counselling official website which is - josaa.nic.in.

• After which, the students are required to click on the link to - JEE Advanced seat allotment.

• This will open a screen where the candidate portal for JoSAA is presented. 

• The students are required to enter the JEE Advanced Application number and insert their password, this will help them to proceed further.

• The student will be required to enter the security code which will be provided in the box below and thereby log in.

• After this, the JEE Advanced 2022 seat allotment results will be presented on the screen.

This was a comprehensive study about the seat allocation of JEE Main 2022 and JEE Advanced 2022. We have provided detailed information regarding how one can check the registration and counselling process, and the results announced by JoSAA regarding the seat allocation. Now we will check some FAQs which are predominantly asked by the students.