Jharkhand Combined Entrance Competitive Examination - JCECE 2016

Jharkhand Combined Entrance Competitive Examination Board conducts different entrance exams to admit candidates into various professional colleges across Jharkhand state. Jharkhand combined entrance competitive examination (JCECE 2016) is to test the merit of the candidates who are desired to join in under graduate engineering, medical, agricultural and veterinary courses in government and private professional institutions for 2016 – 17 academic years.

Application Process

Candidates who are willing to appear JCECE 2016 can avail any one of the 3 options for applying to the exam. An online method, ICR application form method and purchasing OMR application form through select post offices are available for registration. 16^th of may will be the last date to submit the application in all modes.

• Candidates have to register online to access the application form and upon successful registration. Candidates can access online application by logging on the official website providing registration ID and date of birth. Candidates have to fill the basic and academic details and need to upload the scanned photo, signature and thumb impression. Online payment can be done to complete the total application process.
• Candidates who wish to apply through ICR application form method have to download the application online and fill necessary details and attach the prescribed exam fee by DD/ challan and send to the Board official address before the last date of submission.
• OMR applications are available on selected post offices and candidates have to purchase the application and fill the necessary details and send to the official board address before the last date of submission.

Application Fee Details

Category	PCM subject group	PCB subject group	PCMB subject group
SC/ST	550	550	650
General and other categories	1100	1100	1200

 

Subject Groups and Exam Pattern

JCECE 2016 is a pen and paper based exam where candidates have to bubble the OMR sheet and the exam is conducted in one stage which consists of 3 subject groups namely PCM subject group, PCB subject group and PCMB subject group, candidates desired to apply for engineering, agriculture and forestry programs have to appear for PCM subject group and candidates willing to apply for medical, agriculture, forestry and veterinary courses have to appear for PCB subject group. To be eligible for all programs candidates have to appear for PCMB subject group.  Group wise subjects and number of questions as listed below.

Subject Group	Subjects	Number of Questions
PCM	Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry	50 questions in each subject
PCB	Physics, Chemistry, Biology	50 questions in each subject
PCMB	Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology	50 questions in each subject

 

Questions type and scoring

Questions are available in both English and Hindi languages, questions in each subject are MCQ type and each question has 4 choices with single correct answer. Each correct answer will fetch 1 mark and ¼ a mark will be deducted for wrong answer.

Syllabus for JCECE 2016

JCECE syllabus is as prescribed by CBSE board and candidates can refer the board website for detailed syllabus.

Basic eligibility

• Candidate must be citizen of India and domicile of Jharkhand

Academic Eligibility

For engineering courses

• Candidate shall pass 10+2 or equivalent from and recognized board with an aggregate of 45% (40% for reserved category) in Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry.

For MBBS and BDS courses

• Candidate shall pass 10+2 or equivalent from and recognized board with an aggregate of 50% (40% for reserved category) in Biology, Physics, and Chemistry along with English as compulsory subject.
• Candidates shall attain the age of 17 years by 31^st of December

For Agriculture and Forestry courses

• Candidate shall pass 10+2 or equivalent from and recognized board in Biology/ Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry as compulsory subjects.
• Candidate shall attain a minimum of 17 years and maximum of 22 years by 1^st of July

For Veterinary courses

• Candidate shall pass 10+2 or equivalent from and recognized board with an aggregate of 50% (40% for reserved category) in Biology, Physics, and Chemistry along with English as compulsory subject.
• Candidates shall attain the age of 17 years by 31^st of December.

For Homeopathy course

• Candidate shall pass 10+2 or equivalent from and recognized board in Biology, Physics, Chemistry and English as compulsory subjects.

Admit card and Results

Admit card can be downloaded from the link http://jceceb.jharkhand.gov.in/Links/admit_card.aspx  by selecting the JCECE Exam from the list when it is made available on the official website. Admit card contains Roll number, Name, Fathers name, Exam center and other details, Candidates whose registration is successful can download the Admit card from the official website, need to check the details printed on the card and if any discrepancies found has to be reported for the correction.  Candidates have to preserve the admit card till the councelling and admission process completes. Once the exam concludes, Results will be declared along with the category wise merit lists and candidate can download the results from official website.

Exam schedule

Exam for All subject groups will be conducted on 12^th June 2016 (rescheduled from 5^th of June 2016) and subject and group wise timings as bellow.

Subject	Timing	Duration
Biology	9.00AM to 10.00AM	1 Hour
Physics & Chemistry	10.15AM to 12.15PM	2 Hours
Mathematics	12.30PM to 1.30Pm	1 Hour

 

PCM Group	10.15AM to 1.30PM
PCB Group	9.00AM to 12.15PM
PCMB Group	9.00AM to 1.30PM

 

Test centers

JCECE 2016 for PCM subject group will be conducted across Jharkhand state in Ranchi, Dhanbad, Bokaro, Jamshedpur, Hazaribagh and Dumka . For subject groups PCB and PCMB exam will be conducted only on Ranchi test center.