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Oct 27 2017 : The Times of India (NaviMumbai)

JEE Advanced: Students to pay higher fee, GST

Abhinav Malhotra | Kanpur: | TNN





Over two lakh students looking forward to take the JEE Advanced-2018 exams for admission into IITs will have to pay higher registration fee apart from GST, the rates of which will be specified by the Centre at the time of registration. This was decided on Thursday by IITKanpur which is conducting the exam.

Organising chairman of the exam, Prof Shalabh, said the exam would be held on May 20.Top 2.24 lakh students, who would clear JEE Mains-2018 to be conducted by CBSE on April 8, will get a chance to sit for JEE Advanced. While female candidates (all categories), SCs, STs and differently abled persons will be required to pay Rs 1300 plus GST, compared to the existing fee of Rs 1200, candidates in the ge neral category will pay Rs 2600 plus GST. The existing fee in this category is Rs 2400. For foreign nationals (candidates from SAARC countries), fee of $160 plus GST has been finalised. For candidates from non-SAARC countries, $300 plus GST has been fixed.

The institute clarified that the total number of candidates can be `slightly' more than 2.24 lakh in case of tied ranksscores in a category .






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