Success Routers

AIEEE is a centralized test for admission to engineering institutes administered by CBSE in association with a chosen National Institute of Technology (NIT). Over 10 lakh students give the exam; since AIEEE is not restricted to a small set of institutes in the sense of IITJEE they publish ranks till pretty low figures. A candidate get different break-up of ranks - an All India Rank, a State Rank (which is his rank vis-a-vis candidates within the state he’s appeared for class 12th in), and category rank. 50% of seats in the NITs in a state are reserved under state quota (admitted through state rank), while rest of the seats are filled up on All India Rank basis. (There’s been a change from earlier when system where there state-wise quotas for admission on basis of All India Rank. Now those state quotas - the ones for AIR - have been abolished and it’s purely on basis of AIR.) Those who have high category / state ranks should think of applying to colleges in their own state under these quotas.

This year AIEEE counselling will be held online. Students will have to login to the Central Counselling Board (CCB) website and enter their course / college preferences. There are a few things which should be able to give you a ballpark idea of what cutoff ranks to expect. First is CCB’s institute-wise opening and closing ranks list, but a better tool would be this AIEEE 2009 rank analysis tool - even this will give you college-wise, category-wise, branch-wise opening and closing rank cutoffs for various colleges under AIEEE admission process. You should note that these ranks given here are only for the first round of counselling where such cutoffs can go high. In later rounds of counselling they can go lower - or you can even join a college in a less-in-demand branch and then ’slide’ to ‘better’ branch as and when vacancies are created.
Online counselling will have multiple rounds. The thing to watch out for here is that if you’re allotted a college in first round of counselling, then you have to drop out of later rounds of counselling. I’ll take an example here. Say you want to do electrical at NIT Trichy, but don’t meet first counselling cutoffs for electrical there - but you do meet cutoff for chemical. Then, while making your choice if you fill in chemical at Trichy in the first form then that’s what you’ll have to take. If on the other hand you abstain from filling in choices in the first form, and instead choose to fill in your option for electrical in second form then you might have a chance of getting electrical itself at Trichy. So this was just an example as to how things happen, but I hope you get an idea that you’ll be walking a tightrope here when making choices. There are so many factors that you need to weigh, and hopefully this article should’ve helped you understand some of those factors clearer.

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