How does the JoSAA Counselling Process Actually Work?

How does the JoSAA Counselling Process Actually Work?: JoSAA counselling process 2024 is likely to begin from June 10, 2024. While registering themselves for the JoSAA counselling process 2024, applicants have to fill in their preferred colleges/institutes and courses. After each round of JoSAA 2024 counselling, the authority releases the seat allotment result on its official website. 

JoSAA counselling process 2024 includes a series of steps like registration, choice filling, seat allotment and reporting to an allotted college. There are 118 participating institutes and IIEST Shibpur taking part in the counselling process. Seats assigned to candidates will be done on the basis of the choices marked by them during the registration process. Check the detailed schedule for choice filling and seat allotment here. In this article, candidates will get complete information regarding how the JoSAA counselling process works including the important dates of counselling and options available during seat allotment. 

JoSAA 2024 Counselling - Overview

Students can have an overview of the JoSAA counselling process 2024 through this below given table.

JoSAA Counselling 2024 - Complete Schedule 

Candidates can check below the tentative JoSAA 2024 counselling dates.

CSAB Special Round Counselling Dates 2024

The Central Seat Allocation Board will release the dates for CSAB special round counselling 2024 in online mode. Candidates who did not get admission through JoSAA counselling, are seeking an upgrade, or have withdrawn from JoSAA seat allotment are eligible to participate in the CSAB special round counselling 2024. The dates will be updated below once officially released.

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How JoSAA Counselling Process Work?

Candidates need to be aware of how JoSAA counselling process work before appearing for the counselling process on the dates mentioned by the authorities. JoSAA 2023 counselling includes steps like registration, online filling and locking of choices, allotment of seats to candidates and acceptance of seat & paying the requisite seat acceptance fee. The detailed counselling process has been explained below. 

• Registration: The first step of JoSEE counselling is the registration process. All candidates are advised to successfully complete the registration before the deadline. To register every candidate has to login using their credentials like JEE Main roll number or JEE Advanced roll number and password. After entering the roll number, candidates have to validate the fetched details respectively
• Choice Filling: In this section of the counselling process, students will be able to mark their preferred choices. All the choices marked have to be in order of the preference of the candidates. Applicants who have cleared the JEE Main exam will be able to choose from NITs, IIITs, and GFTIs, however, applicants clearing JEE Advanced exam will be able to mark their choices from various IITs. Candidates must note that they can use the ‘choice rearrange’ and ‘choice interchange’ options to edit their choices. The authorities will also allow students to use the ‘multiple deletion’ option to delete multiple marked choices. After marking the choices and ensuring the correctness of the marked options, students need to save all their choice marked
• Choice Locking: After marking the options available candidates need to lock their choices by clicking on the ‘I agree to Lock my Choices’. After entering the marked details candidates must login using their JEE Main / JEE Advanced roll number and password to take a printout of the preferences marked 
• Allotment of Seats: The allotment of seats to candidates will be made on the basis of seat availability in the respective courses at various institutes. The choices locked by applicants while choice filling will be considered during seat allotment by the authorities
• Seat Acceptance & Payment of Fees: After the completion of the seat allotment process by JoSAA candidates are required to make the necessary payment of seat acceptance. The seat acceptance fee has to be paid in the online mode before the online document verification process. Candidates are required to click on ‘Pay Seat Acceptance Fee’ tab which will be further redirected to the EPG page. Students can select any one option to pay the fees i.e. through debit card / credit card / net banking as per their convenience. After the payment is successful, the payment gateway page will be redirected to the seat allotment result page. Once the payment status is displayed as ‘Success’ then students must download and take a printout of the provisional seat allotment letter for future reference

JoSAA 2024 Seat Matrix 

The JoSAA 2024 seat matrix is yet to be released. Meanwhile, candidates can check the JoSAA seat matrix 2023 of IITs, NITs, IIITs and GFTIs from the table below. 

Applicants participating in the JoSAA 2024 counselling can note down the detailed process of how the JoSAA counselling process work in this article. Additionally, the important dates and the tentative seat matrix are also made available for the assistance of candidates here.