Barely a few hours are left for JEE Mains, and the coaching capital is all set to play host to 10,800 aspirants who would take the exam for Paper 1 and another 1,200 who would appear for Paper 2, at 20 examination centres across the city. Around 40,000 students of Kota’s coaching institutes are likely to take the exam in different cities across the country.

Kota is known for its IIT-JEE coaching and around 50,000 JEE Mains aspirants come here every year to prepare for the exam. Other than Kota, JEE Mains will be conducted across five other cities in Rajasthan including Jaipur, Ajmer, Udaipur, Jodhpur, and Bikaner. An official of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), which is organizing JEE Mains, said, “All the necessary arrangements have been made to ensure a smooth conduct of the examination at 20 centres in Kota. JEE Mains aspirants will write the examination in two shifts; private schools in the town have been turned into examination centers. Security arrangements at the centres are in place, and CBSE observer will keep an eye on the examinations tomorrow.”

The Paper 1 (B.E./B.Tech) will be held from 9.30 am to 12.30 pm and Paper 2 (B.Arch. and B. Planning) will be held from 2 pm to 5 pm.
Aspirants have been asked to bring only their admit cards and nothing else, not even pens or pencils. CBSE will provide pens to the JEE Mains aspirants at the examination centers.

While some students were anxious about tomorrow’s test, others seemed pretty relaxed. Rohit Gupta, an aspirant, said, “I have stopped reading now. Whatever I had to learn or revise, I have done that. Now it is the time to perform.”

Another aspirant Gaurav Gupta said, “I am anxious. I have worked hard, and now it is the time to write the examination tomorrow.”
Some students who will be appearing for JEE Mains in other cities of Rajasthan were seen hurriedly boarding buses and trains. Some students were complaining that this time around there were no examination special trains. The Railways had instead added four additional coaches in two Jaipur-bound passenger trains.
However, some coaching institutes of Kota have made arrangements to ferry their students to other cities in Rajasthan for the JEE Mains tomorrow.