JEE Advanced Counselling 2025: Seat Allotment, IITs-wise Opening and Closing Ranks

JEE Advanced Counselling 2025 - For admission to Indian Institute of Technology (IITs), the counselling process is conducted by Joint Seat Allocation Authority (JoSAA). Candidates who qualify the JEE Advanced exam are eligible to participate in counselling for IIT admission.

The counselling process includes multiple steps such as Registration, Choice Filling, Choice Locking, Validation, Seat Allotment, and Reporting to the allotted Institute. JEE Advanced counselling will take place in five rounds. In each round, candidates will be allocated seats on the basis of JEE Advanced ranks. The registration for JEE Advanced counselling will commence after the next day the result is announced. Candidates can download the detailed schedule from the link given below.

JoSAA Counselling 2024 Schedule (Download here)

The JEE Advanced Cutoff 2025 will be released after the completion of the counselling round. The cutoff is released in the form of opening and closing ranks. These opening and closing ranks will be released by participating colleges for different courses and categories. Applicants must fall within the range of a particular course to be considered for admission.

The Joint Seat Allocation Authority (JoSAA) conducts the JEE Counselling (JoSAA Counselling) after the declaration of the result. The counselling is conducted in an online mode as a centralised process for admissions to 23 IITs, 31 NITs, 25 IIITs and 28 Other GFTIs. In the year 2024, all 23 Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) in India had a total of 17,385 seats available, which is a small increase over the 16,598 seats available in 2023. The JoSAA seat matrix 2025 will be released on the official website. Candidates can check the IITs intake for different programs in the article below.

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JEE Advanced Counselling 2025

After the declaration of the JEE Advanced result, the qualified candidates are called for the JoSAA counselling. The JEE seat allotment result will be released after each round of counselling. This means participating in the counselling round does not guarantee final admission. After the declaration of the seat allotment result, selected candidates are required to report to the allotted college and confirm their admission.

JEE Advanced Round 1 Opening and Closing Ranks PDF

Candidates can download the JoSAA Round 1 cutoff PDF from the table given below: 

JEE Advanced Round 2 Opening and Closing Ranks PDF

Candidates can download the Round 2 opening and closing ranks PDF in the table below: 

JEE Advanced Round 3 Opening and Closing Ranks PDF

JEE Advanced Counselling 2024 - Round 4 Opening and Closing Ranks

JEE Advanced Counselling 2024 - Round 5 Opening and Closing Ranks

JoSAA Seat Matrix 2025

The JoSAA seat matrix will be released soon for different institutes on the official website - josaa.nic.in.  Last year, a total of 17740 were available in IITs, as per the official seat matrix. The table below shows the JoSAA Seat Matrix for different programs in IITs.  

JoSAA Seat Matrix 2025 - Top IITs

The number of seats in top IITs as per the official JoSAA seat matrix (for the year 2024) is provided in the table below.

JoSAA Seat Matrix 2023

Candidates can check the JoSAA 2023 seat matrix for all institutes for all courses from the table below:

JoSAA Counselling 2025: Important Instructions

• Use JEE (Main) 2025 Application No. if you have enrolled for JEE (Main) 2024.
• Candidates who applied for JEE (Advanced) 2025 but were not registered for JEE (Main) 2025 should use their login ID from JEE (Advanced) 2025 as their application number.
• Use the JEE (Advanced) 2025 password if you have enrolled for the exam. Use the JEE (Main) 2025 password if not.
  

JEE Advanced Counselling Schedule

JEE counselling dates 2025 will be released by JoSAA on its official website. Interested students can check the tentative JoSAA counselling schedule in the table below:

JEE Advanced Counselling 2025: Eligibility

The basic eligibility to participate in the counselling round for admission to various engineering programmes at the undergraduate level is to qualify the JEE Advanced 2025 exam. However, students are also required to fulfil other eligibility criteria as well to participate in the JEE Advanced counselling. Below are the eligibility requirements that students must meet:

• Candidates should have secured a JEE Advanced rank in order to participate in the counselling round.
• Candidates must have minimum marks in each subject as well as aggregate in order to participate in the counselling round.

JEE Advanced Counselling 2025 - Certificate Formats

Students who wish to apply for the JEE Advanced counselling must know the certificate formats if they belong to certain special categories. The certificate format PDFs can be downloaded by candidates from the table given below: 

JEE Advanced Counselling Process

The JEE Advanced Counselling process includes broadly five major steps:

Registration: Qualified candidates are required to first register themselves for the counselling round with their roll number and password.

Choice Filling and Locking: Once logged in, candidates are required to fill in their choice of preferences of course, branch and institute. It must be noted that preferences made by candidates are editable until the last date. Hence, candidates must fill in their preferences and finalise/lock it before the last date.

Seat Allotment: After candidates have made their choices, seats will be assigned based on the candidate's rank. Before the actual seat allotment, however, JoSAA will also hold two mock allotments to make sure candidates are familiar with the procedure and know what seats they may anticipate to receive based on the choices they have made. Candidates are also permitted to change their preferences following the simulated seat allocation. Students will have the choice of what to do with their assigned seats after each seat allocation. Candidates will have three opportunities to exercise their choice: Seat Float, Freeze, and Slide.

Reporting to Allotted College: Once seats have been assigned, applicants must report to the Zonal IIT. For document verification and submission of the admission fee, all candidates must be physically present. Students will not be given consideration for seat allotment if they fail to report to the Zonal IIT by the deadline specified, and their seats will be effectively lost.

Granting Provisional Admission: After the candidate's fee has been paid and all of their documents have been satisfactorily verified, candidates will be granted provisional admission. The final allotment letter from the respective college will also be given to the students.

Documents Required for Provisional Admission

While confirming their provisional admission, candidates must submit original documents along with one attested photocopy. The following are the documents that candidates must have with them for confirming their provisional admission:

• JEE Advanced Admit Card
• JEE Advanced Seat Allotment Letter
• Class X Marksheet
• Class XII Marksheet
• Category Certificate (if applicable)
• PwD Certificate (If applicable)
• Testimonials & Passport (For Foreign Nationals)

JEE Advanced Rank List 2025

The JEE Advanced rank list will include the name of those candidates who have secured minimum aggregate marks in Paper 1 & Paper 2 along with minimum marks in each subject (Physics, Chemistry & Mathematics). In other words, aspirants would have to appear for both Paper 1 & Paper 2 in order to achieve the desirable rank. 

JEE Advanced Tie-Breaking Policy

The following tie-breaking technique shall be utilised if there is a conflict between two or more applicants concerning their total marks:

• Candidates will be granted a higher rank if they have higher positive ranks.
• Candidates will be ranked higher if they receive higher Maths scores.
• Candidates who scored higher in Physics will be ranked higher.
• If there is still a tie, the candidates will be given the same ranks in order to break the tie.