JEE Main 2023: OCI and PIO students are not required to write JEE Main for IIT admission
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Amit Yadav
- Updated: January 25, 2023
- IST: 11:12 am
OCI and PIO candidates may take the JEE-Main if they wish. However, their score will not be considered for the JEE-Advanced shortlist.
Overseas Citizens of India (OCI) and Persons of Indian Origin (PIO) students seeking admission to Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are not required to take the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE)-Main, according to a brochure released by IIT Guwahati, which is organizing the JEE exams this year.
Students in the categories had to first take the preliminary entrance exam for the IITs in order to be eligible for the Advanced exam, which determined admissions. However, in the 2022 admission cycle, they were classified as foreign nationals. In accordance with the procedure for foreign national students, the new rule states that OCI and PIO students, including those studying in India, can directly register to take the JEE-Advanced.
“Foreign national candidates who have studied or are studying at the 10+2 level or equivalent in India or abroad at the time of registering for JEE (Advanced) 2023 are not required to write JEE (Main) 2023 and may register for JEE (Advanced) 2023 directly subject to fulfillment of other eligibility criteria,” according to the IIT Guwahati brochure. It states that “candidates who are not citizens of India (by birth or naturalization) and/or who hold an OCI/PIO card are treated as foreign nationals.”
“Even in last year’s process, OCI or PIO candidates were treated as foreign nationals. However, in order to be considered for JEE-Advanced, they had to take the JEE-Main. However, once they were classified as foreign nationals, their fee structure changed automatically. The criteria for their entrance exam were decided to be appropriate for foreign nationals. They are not required to take the JEE-Main exam. This change will be implemented beginning with JEE-Advanced 2023.”
With this change, OCI or PIO candidates will be admitted to IITs through the 10% supernumerary seats reserved for foreign nationals rather than the general pool of seats reserved for Indian students. They will also be unable to make reservations.
“Seats allotted to such foreign national candidates are supernumerary with a cap of 10 percent of total number of seats in every course. These candidates are not eligible for reservations under the GEN-EWS, OBC-NCL, SC, ST, or PwD categories. In the foreign national supernumerary seats, there are no separate supernumerary seats or subcategories for females, according to the information brochure.
The IITs anticipate that the move will result in more foreign national seats in the IITs because OCI and PIO students will seek admission on their own merit and will no longer have to compete in the competitive Common Rank List (CRL) after the JEE-Advanced.
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