UPSEE 2021: AKTU not to conduct entrance exam for 2021-22 engineering admissions

AKTU will not to conduct UPSEE 2021 entrance examination for engineering admissions for the year 2021-22. The exam authority will use the JEE Main scores which conducted by the National Testing Agency (NTA). Read more details below:

UPSEE 2021 - Dr A P J Abdul Kalam Technical University (AKTU) has decided not to conduct Uttar Pradesh State Entrance Examination (UPSEE) 2021 exam for engineering admissions for the year 2021-22. Now, candidates can still apply for admissions to the undergraduate engineering courses through JEE Main scores. More details regarding this are awaited and will be available on the official website.

According to latest UPSEE 2021 notification available on the website, the exam conducting authority will use score of Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) which is conducted by National Testing Agency (NTA) twice in a year. Many Indian states are already following this procedure to use JEE Main scores for admissions to the BTech/BE courses.

Official notification

The marks scored by in the JEE Main will be considered to fill approximately 1.40 lakh seats in around 750 colleges across the state. At present, students from the Uttar Pradesh state meant to appear individually for two different exams i.e. Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Main and Uttar Pradesh State Entrance Examination (UPSEE). It will help them not to prepare separately for both the exams.

Presently, the JEE Main exam is conducted to determine the eligibility of candidates to reserve their seats and chance to take admission in National Institutes for Technology (NITs), Indian Institutes for Technology (IITs) and other centrally-funded technical institutions.