Odisha Joint Entrance Examination(OJEE)

About the exam

About OJEE

Fill the OJEE form for one course and it costs Rs 1,000; add a second and it costs Rs 500 more, and so on for each course after that. What arrives on exam day then depends entirely on which boxes were ticked, because the Odisha Joint Entrance Examination Board sets a 120-question paper for some courses, a 90-question paper for others and a 60-question paper for the rest, as the OJEE 2026 Information Brochure lays out. The Board also runs the counselling for several courses its own paper never tests. Which course a number belongs to therefore matters more here than on almost any other state entrance test, so every figure below is labelled with its course and its cycle.

OJEE is the entrance test the Odisha Joint Entrance Examination Board holds for admission to professional and technical courses in institutions across Odisha. The Board's OJEE official website records that the committee was formed on the recommendation of the Policy Planning Body, with the approval of the Skill Development and Technical Education Department, under resolution no. I-TTE-45/2013-3842/ETET dated 04.07.2013, and that it exists both to hold common entrance examinations and to conduct the counselling process that follows them. Its statutory footing is the Odisha Professional Educational Institutions (Regulation of Admission and Fixation of Fee) Act, 2007, which requires admission to every seat in a government, sponsored or private professional institution in the state, lateral entry seats included, to be made through a government-approved entrance test followed by web-based counselling in order of merit, per the Information Brochure.

For the 2026 cycle the Board's own introduction lists what OJEE tests: first-year B. Pharm, B.CAT in cinematography, sound recording and design or film editing, and the five-year Integrated MBA; lateral admission to the second year of B. Tech and B. Pharm; and first-year master's courses in MCA and M.Sc (Computer Sc), MBA, M. Tech including part-time, M. Pharm, M. Arch and M. Plan. The brochure's cover adds the nursing routes: Basic B.Sc Nursing, Post Basic B.Sc. Nursing, Post Basic Diploma Nursing and M.Sc Nursing.

The courses OJEE does not test are the ones applicants most often assume it does. The brochure is explicit: for admission to B. TECH, B. ARCH, B. PLAN and Int M.Sc. courses candidates have to appear and qualify in JEE Main 2026, for MBBS, BDS, BAMS and BHMS they have to appear and qualify in NEET (UG) 2026, and for PG Homeopathy and PG Ayurveda they have to appear AIPGET 2026. GATE and GPAT qualified candidates, it adds, can go straight into the counselling process without sitting OJEE at all.

That distinction matters because the Board wears two hats. It is the examining body for the courses above, and it is the counselling authority for a much wider set: the Revised Counselling Brochure, OJEE-2026 opens the OJEE 2026 counselling to holders of a valid OJEE, JEE MAIN, NEET, CAT, MAT, XAT, ATMA, CMAT, NIMCET, GATE or GPAT rank card, each to the corresponding programmes. A candidate can therefore be admitted through OJEE without ever sitting an OJEE paper.

At a glance

OJEE highlights

Calendar

Important dates

The 2026 cycle ran on the schedule below. Every date here is OJEE 2026's own; the Board publishes each cycle's calendar separately and no date carries over.

Two of those windows moved after they were first announced, which is worth knowing for the next cycle. The application was first notified as closing on 22.03.2026 and was extended to 29.03.2026, with three correction days added afterwards, per Notice OJEE/112 extending the application window. The answer key challenge was first set to end on May 18, 2026 and was pushed to May 19, 2026 till 11:59PM, per Public notice OJEE/212 extending the key challenge. The Board also reopened the 2nd OJEE application for a single afternoon, from 1:00 PM to 7:00 PM on 07-07-2026, after what its public notice on the 2nd OJEE application calls several requests from students and parents.

Where the cycle stands depends on the course. For the engineering, architecture, planning, B.CAT, Integrated M.Sc., Integrated MBA, lateral entry and postgraduate streams it is over: a circular dated 02-08-2026 told every participating university, college and institute that all rounds of counselling for those courses had been completed, and asked them to finish the admission process and portal reporting by 07-08-2026, per the circular for participating institutes. A later public notice, dated 30.08.2026, revised the last date for institute-level admission against remaining seats from 14.08.2026 to 14.09.2026, following AICTE's revised academic calendar, as the notice on the extended admission deadline sets out.

Pharmacy was given a calendar of its own, and a later one. The tentative pharmacy counselling schedule for B.Pharm, M.Pharm and LE Pharmacy, dated 31.08.2026, opens registration and choice filling on 3 September 2026, puts Round 1 seat allotment on 14 September 2026, closes online reporting for those allottees at 5.00 PM on 17 September 2026, puts Round 2 seat allotment on 21 September 2026 and the final round on 30 September 2026, and opens physical reporting to the allotted college from 30 September 2026 onwards.

Who can apply

Eligibility criteria

OJEE sorts applicants by the examination they have passed or are appearing in, not by the course they want. The Information Brochure's Table 1 sets out the application groups: candidates passed or appeared at 10+2 (for B. Pharmacy, Integrated MBA, both B.CAT streams and Basic B.Sc Nursing); passed or appeared in a Diploma in Engineering or Pharmacy (for lateral entry to B. Tech or B. Pharm); passed or appeared in General Nursing and Midwifery, Basic B.Sc. Nursing or Post Basic B.Sc. Nursing (for the senior nursing routes); passed or appeared at graduation (for MBA, MCA or M.Sc. Computer Sc., and lateral entry to B. Tech from a B.Sc.); and passed or appeared in B.Tech, B.Arch, B.Plan, B.Pharm, MCA or M.Sc (for M.Arch, M.Plan, M.Pharm and the M.Tech specialisations). The words "passed or appeared" do the work: a candidate still writing the qualifying examination may apply.

The qualifying marks are fixed by course, and which candidates get the lower one is worth reading off the counselling brochure rather than the Information Brochure. The Information Brochure writes the concession as 40% marks in case of candidates belonging to reserved category; the Revised Counselling Brochure, OJEE-2026 prints an eligibility-mark table that puts General and SEBC candidates in one column and SC and ST candidates in the other, and its disclaimer makes that version the governing one.

Lateral entry to B. Tech carries a third route the table hides. Besides the diploma and the B.Sc. routes, the Information Brochure admits a candidate who has passed a D.Voc. stream in the same or allied sector, and it warns that B.Sc.-stream students are considered only after the supernumerary seats in that category have been filled with diploma-stream students.

The nursing rules sit in their own section of the brochure and differ on every axis. A Basic B.Sc. Nursing candidate must be minimum 17 years of age as on dt: 31.12.2026, having been born on or before dt.31.12.2009; must have passed 10+2 with Physics, Chemistry and Biology; must have passed PCB and English individually with a minimum of 45% marks taken together in PCB, or 40% for SC and ST candidates; must have passed minimum M.E standard Odia; must be a domicile of Odisha; and must be medically fit, all per the Information Brochure's nursing section. A separate notice, OJEE/127 of 01-04-2026, adds that there is no maximum age limit for pursuing Nursing courses as per INC Notification dated 21.08.2023, and supersedes the brochure's own closing line on Basic B.Sc. Nursing: only candidates who qualify in the entrance examination conducted by the OJEE may be admitted, and NEET qualified candidates will not be eligible for admission in Basic B.Sc. Nursing course in Odisha, per the notice on nursing programmes.

For everything except nursing the brochure declines to set an age rule at all, and says so plainly: OJEE will not be responsible for any regulation of service where requirement for age exists, and the student should take admission at his or her own risk as regards to his or her stated age.

Domicile is the condition that decides where a rank can actually be spent. A candidate qualifies for the Odisha State (S) category by satisfying any one of three criteria in the brochure: passing or appearing at the qualifying examination from a recognised institution in Odisha; having parents who are natives of Odisha, evidenced by a resident or nativity certificate issued by a Revenue Officer not below the rank of Tahsildar; or being the son, daughter or spouse of a Government of Odisha, Government of India or undertaking employee serving in the state at the time of application. S-category candidates are eligible in government and private colleges and in the lateral entry courses.

Outside-state (ZZ) candidates are considered only for admission in private colleges, and the brochure's wording on lateral entry needs reading twice, because it says two things on one page. Outside state candidates, it states, are not eligible for admission in Government Colleges to Engineering, MBA, MCA and MSc (Comp Sc) courses and under any of the Lateral Entry programs; the next paragraph then makes them eligible in private colleges at first-year level and in private engineering colleges for B Tech (LE) and B Pharm (LE) at second-year level. The counselling brochure settles it in practice by allotting lateral entry seats to diploma rank holders of the state first, then to diploma rank holders from outside the state, and only then to the B.Sc. list. Reservation is a separate gate on top of all this: both brochures restrict every reserved category and sub-category to natives of Odisha, and require the online resident or nativity certificate to claim one.

MCA is the route where the two documents disagree outright. The Information Brochure limits MCA applicants to a BCA or a computer science engineering degree, or to a B.Sc., B.Com. or B.A. with Mathematics at 10+2 or graduation level. The counselling brochure widens it to any graduation degree, naming B.E., B.Tech., B.Sc, B.Com., B.A., B.Voc. and BCA, preferably with Mathematics at 10+2 or graduation level and with Business Mathematics not allowed, and provides for a compulsory bridge course for students with no Mathematics background. The counselling brochure's own disclaimer settles which governs: where its rules are at variance with the Information Brochure, the counselling brochure supersedes.

Step by step

Application process and fee

One candidate can submit one application only. A candidate who wants to sit for several courses selects them all inside that single form, because the brochure warns that multiple application numbers may lead to a change of examination centre and place, and that where the same course is applied for twice only the latest application is considered and the rest are rejected with no refund.

The fee follows the course count, not the category. Application fees for a form with a single course is Rs.1000/-, and for the addition of each course thereafter Rs.500/- for each course is added, with bank transaction charges over and above that, per the OJEE 2026 Information Brochure, which also states that the fee once paid is non-refundable. Payment runs through debit card, credit card on VISA, MASTER, Maestro or RuPay, internet banking or UPI.

Two details catch applicants out every cycle, and both are irreversible. Once a course has been selected and the form completed, no course can be added and none can be changed. Reservation category and sub-category options, once given, cannot be changed afterwards under any circumstances.

The last-day cut-off time is not the same in every OJEE document, which is worth knowing before the last day. The Information Brochure says the facility of submission of the application form will be ceased at 05.00 PM on the last day; the Board's instructions for filling up the OJEE-2026 application form say submission, fee payment and printing of the confirmation page are ceased at 11.59 PM on it. The dated notice is what actually governed the cycle, and it took the later reading: Notice OJEE/112 set the last date as 29.03.2026 till 11:59 PM.

Nothing is uploaded to prove a category claim at this stage. The brochure instructs applicants not to upload any document with the form in support of a reservation claim, and to substantiate the claim with original certificates during document verification at counselling instead; failing to do so costs the seat. What does get uploaded is a photograph, a full signature and a left-hand thumb impression. The instructions for filling up the OJEE-2026 application form set both images in JPG format at 20KB to 200KB, the photograph at 3.5cm x 4.5cm and the signature at 3.5cm x 1.5cm, and add a live photograph, captured by webcam or by phone through a QR code, at the document upload stage.

M.Tech and M.Plan applicants had one more step in 2026. A notice revising Table-8, numbered OJEE/0110 and dated 20-03-2026, replaced the table that maps a candidate's graduation discipline to the branch paper they must sit and the master's courses they become eligible for, and asked affected candidates to modify their application forms accordingly if required.

Before the exam

Admit card and exam day

Admit cards are uploaded to the OJEE website at least 10 days before the date of examination. For the main OJEE 2026 the schedule notice opened downloads from 25.04.2026 onwards, per Notice OJEE/0158 with the OJEE 2026 exam schedule; for the 2nd or Special OJEE they opened from 10.07.2026, 10 AM onwards, per Notice OJEE/0319 with the 2nd OJEE CBT schedule. The candidate's centre, date and shift are printed on the card rather than notified separately.

Two copies are needed, not one. Both must be endorsed by the invigilator at the centre before the candidate is allowed to sit; one is submitted in the examination hall and the other retained, and the brochure tells candidates to keep the signed copy until they have taken final admission, because the submitted copy may be examined at a later stage to validate its authenticity.

The hall opens one hour before the examination, and the Information Brochure requires candidates to take their seats at least 15 minutes before it begins. After that the door closes: in no case is a candidate allowed to enter the examination hall after the examination starts, and no candidate may leave before the duration is over except for an emergency requirement. Books, printed papers other than the admit card, manuscripts and electronic gadgets including mobile phones, electronic diaries and calculators are barred from the hall, and a candidate found with them is debarred from the examination. The medium of examination is English.

The brochure's provisions for candidates with disabilities are specific. Only candidates who have 40% or more disability are provided a scribe or reader, and then on request; they may opt for their own scribe or ask the Centre Superintendent to identify one, and may meet that scribe a day before the examination to verify suitability. The same candidates are allowed 20 minutes per hour of compensatory time, whether or not they use a scribe.

Structure

Exam pattern

Every OJEE paper is a computer-based multiple-choice test with four options and one correct answer, and a candidate can change a saved answer as often as they like until the paper ends. On marking, the Information Brochure is short, and what it says covers every paper except the nursing ones: "Each correct answer will fetch four marks. For each incorrect answer, one mark will be deducted. No mark will be awarded/deducted for un-attempted questions."

The length is where the papers part company.

The nursing papers are scored on a different system entirely. Each of the nursing entrance tests is one question paper of 100 Multiple Choice Questions, each carrying one mark, with no negative marks for wrong answers and a duration of 2 hours; for Basic B.Sc. Nursing the brochure prints the full distribution, at 20 questions and 20 marks each in Physics, Chemistry, Biology, English and Aptitude for Nursing.

The 2nd or Special OJEE compresses what it covers. Its rules and pattern of examination for 2nd OJEE-2026 reach six courses and set every one of them at 60 questions in 1 hour: a B. Tech paper of Physics 20, Chemistry 20 and Mathematics 20 that the main OJEE does not carry at all, an MCA paper of Mathematics 30 and Computer Awareness 30, an MBA paper of four sections of 15, and LE-Tech (Diploma), LE-Tech (B.Sc.) and B. Pharm papers, all on the same four-marks-and-minus-one rule. Basic B.Sc. Nursing sits in the special round as well, and it is the exception: its own rules document keeps the 100 one-mark questions and the no-negative-marking rule of the main test.

One rule about attempting deserves care, because the brochure states it in two places and not identically. Under publication of results it says that to be in the merit list a candidate has to attempt at least one question from each section, and that a candidate who attempted from one section only is liable to be disqualified and will not be able to download a rank card. Under examination procedure, several pages later, it says only that a candidate who has not attempted at least one question will have their candidature summarily rejected. The stricter reading is the safer one to sit with.

What to study

Syllabus

The Board publishes one syllabus document for the whole examination, SYLLABUS FOR OJEE - 2026, and its contents page runs course by course rather than subject by subject: B. Pharm, LE - Pharm, LE - Tech (Diploma), LE - Tech (B.Sc.), MCA, MBA, Int. MBA, M. Pharm, M. Arch, M. Plan, M. Tech, B. Tech for the 2nd or Special OJEE, and B.CAT.

The depth varies sharply between them, and that is worth planning around. B. Pharm gets a full topic list at +2 level across Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics and Biology. MCA gets a detailed Mathematics syllabus running from logic and set theory through coordinate geometry, calculus and probability, but its Computer Awareness half is three lines: an introduction to computers covering their brief history, components, classification and applications; computer arithmetic covering number systems with a general base, base conversion and elementary arithmetic operations; and an introduction to algorithms and computer languages. MBA and Integrated MBA get no topic list at all, only the four section names and their question counts. M. Pharm's entry is a single line: the syllabus is as per the BPUT B. Pharm course.

Two syllabi are borrowed rather than written. For the 2nd or Special OJEE, the syllabus for the B. Tech course is the same as that for JEE MAIN 2026 while every other course keeps the OJEE 2026 syllabus, as the notice announcing that examination states. And the M. Tech, M. Arch, M. Plan and M. Pharm branch papers are chosen by Table-8 of the Information Brochure, which pairs a graduation discipline with the branch paper a candidate must sit, so reading the syllabus without first reading that table can send a candidate to the wrong paper.

How to prepare

Preparation and books

The Board's own preparation material is thin but specific, and worth taking at face value and no further. Course-wise practice papers are published not on ojee.nic.in but on odishajee.com, the Board's second official website, as OJEE 2026 mock tests: one per course, running from B.Pharmacy, Integrated MBA and B CAT through the lateral entry papers, each M.Tech branch, MBA, MCA and M.Sc. Comp.Sc., and every nursing route. The syllabus document above is the only syllabus the Board issues, and it is what the question papers are drawn from.

The one steer the Board gives on study material comes from an unexpected place. Its guidelines on challenging the answer key tell candidates that the supporting references they submit should be from credible sources like NCERT and official syllabus books, which is as close as any OJEE document comes to naming a text.

Where it is held

Exam centres

A candidate selects any three cities in order of preference while applying. The Information Brochure says an effort will be made to allot a city in that order, but reserves the right to allot a different city in a nearby area for administrative reasons, and makes the Board's decision on centre allotment final with no further correspondence entertained.

The brochure's list of probable examination centres inside Odisha covers the state broadly: Angul, Balangir, Balasore, Bargarh, Baripada, Berhampur, Bhadrak, Bhawanipatna, Bhubaneswar, Cuttack, Deogarh, Dhenkanal, Jagatsinghpur, Jajpur, Jeypore, Jharsuguda, Kendrapara, Malkangiri, Paralakhemundi, Phulbani, Puri, Rayagada, Rourkela, Sambalpur, Nuapada, Boudh, Nayagarh, Umerkote, Keonjhar and Sonepur. Outside the state it names Ranchi in Jharkhand, Patna in Bihar and Kolkata in West Bengal.

After the exam

Answer key

After the examination the Board displays the provisional answer key alongside each candidate's own question paper with recorded responses, and opens a window to challenge it. For OJEE 2026 the revised public notice OJEE/205 on the answer key set display for May 16, 2026 and the end of the challenge for May 18, 2026, and stated the challenge fee as Rs 100 per question challenged, as a non-refundable processing fee. That notice is precise about what non-refundable means: the challenge fee will be refunded only to candidates whose challenges are found acceptable after a thorough review by the OJEE Committee. Payment runs through debit card, credit card, net banking or Paytm, and no challenge is entertained without it.

The mechanics are laid out step by step in the Board's steps to view the question paper and raise an objection: log in with the application number and password, open the post-applied section, view the question and response PDF, open the objection form, pick the question ID being challenged, choose the nature of the objection from a dropdown, add remarks, upload a proof document, which the Board's guidelines on how to challenge the OJEE 2026 answer key require in PDF, JPG or JPEG format, and pay.

What happens next is deliberately invisible to the candidate who paid. The revised public notice says the key finalized by the Experts after the challenge will be final, that the result is prepared and declared on it, and that no individual candidate will be informed about the acceptance or non-acceptance of his or her challenge. The Rs 100 coming back is the only signal a candidate ever gets that one was upheld.

One trap survives on the website. That same guidelines document, numbered OJEE/2026/198 and dated 11-05-2026, still carries the original dates, publication on May 14, 2026 and objections from May 14 to May 17, 2026, which the revised notice three days later replaced. The dated public notice is the one that governs.

Scores

Result and scorecard

The Information Brochure set the probable date of declaration of results at the 1st week of June, 2026, and separate merit lists are published for each course rather than one combined list. Rank cards and score cards are downloaded from the candidate's own login, reached through the Board's candidate activity board, which also carries the separate result link for the 2nd or Special OJEE.

There is no qualifying mark on most OJEE papers. The brochure says so directly: there will be no qualifying marks in the entrance examination for the courses or programs it lists, except all Nursing programs, which instead carry percentile bars for Basic B.Sc. Nursing at the 50th percentile for General, the 45th percentile for General-PwD, and the 40th percentile for SC, ST, OBC and SEBC candidates and for their PwD candidates. Ties are broken differently in each nursing paper: in Basic B.Sc. Nursing by total marks secured in Biology at 10+2, then English marks at 10+2, then seniority in date of birth; in Post Basic B.Sc. Nursing by the higher aggregate in the GNM examinations; and in M.Sc. Nursing and Post Basic Diploma Nursing by the higher percentage in the earlier nursing qualification, with the older candidate preferred if a tie survives that.

The 2nd or Special OJEE produces a separate rank list that sits underneath the first. Its rules document states that the merit list drawn from it will be used for vacant seats only, meaning seats left over after two rounds of counselling on the 1st OJEE or JEE Main 2026 merit list, and that the ranks on its rank card start from the next rank after the last rank of the 1st OJEE 2026 or JEE Main 2026 list. A rank card is a ticket to the counselling, not to a seat: the counselling brochure warns that mere possession of a rank card is not enough, and that allotment depends on availability, on the candidate's rank and on the options exercised.

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Cutoff

The one closing-rank table OJEEB publishes is for a test it does not set. Its Opening and Closing Rank 2025 page carries a single document, OPENING & CLOSING RANKS - BTECH 2025, listing every participating institute and programme with an opening rank, a closing rank, a category, a seat type and a quota. B.Tech admission in Odisha runs on JEE Main ranks, so nothing in it describes an OJEE paper; for those papers what a candidate is given is a rank, and a closing figure exists only once a round has run against a published seat matrix.

The spread inside one institute shows why a single headline number would be useless anyway. At Biju Patnaik University of Technology, Rourkela, the 2025 table records Computer Science and Engineering opening at rank 75585 and closing at 286827 for General, Gender Neutral candidates under the home state quota, while Civil Engineering in the same institute, same category and same quota, opened at 411474 and closed at 847923, per the 2025 opening and closing ranks for B.Tech.

Getting a seat

Counselling and seat allotment

Counselling runs online from end to end, document verification included. Candidates are not required to move to any place for it: uploaded self-attested copies are checked automatically against board and university databases, or by a designated verifying officer who may raise a query that the candidate then has to resolve within the scheduled date and time. An unresolved query cancels the allotted seat.

The sequence is fixed. Registration comes first, then a non-refundable registration fee of Rs.450/-, or Rs. 1000/- for MBBS, BDS, BAMS and BHMS, per the Revised Counselling Brochure, OJEE-2026. Then comes choice filling, with no maximum limit on the number of choices, a mock allotment, and choice locking with the candidate's own password, after which no alteration is possible under any circumstances. Round 1 allotment follows. An allotted candidate then exercises a freeze or float option, uploads documents and pays a part admission cum seat acceptance fee of Rs.10,000/- for general candidates and Rs.5000/- for SC, ST and PWD candidates, as the same brochure sets out; a candidate who does not complete all of that is out of the next round. Round 2 follows, then a second registration window for 2nd or Special OJEE rank holders and for JEE Main holders who did not register earlier, then Round 3, which is the final allotment.

The brochure's advice on reporting runs against instinct and is worth reading twice: candidates are advised not to report to the allotted college after the 1st, 2nd or 3rd round allotment under any circumstances, and to wait for the final allotment, which takes upgradation of the allotted seat into account. Withdrawal is possible, but only after the seat acceptance fee has been paid, and only within the scheduled withdrawal window; after that date the deposit is forfeited, and a candidate who withdraws is out of the allotment process altogether.

Reservation is where the two OJEE brochures diverge most sharply, and the difference is large enough to change who gets a seat. The Information Brochure's Table 3 sets Scheduled Caste reservation at 8% and Scheduled Tribe at 12% in every stream it tabulates except lateral entry, where both are zero, and labels the whole table indicative as per the previous year, per the OJEE 2026 Information Brochure. The counselling brochure sets Scheduled Caste at 16.25%, Scheduled Tribe at 22.50% and Socially and Educationally Backward Classes at 11.25%, each attributed to Govt. Order No. 12604/SSD Bhubaneswar Dated 02.06.26, and applies them to engineering, MBA, MCA, pharmacy and the postgraduate courses alike. Its disclaimer resolves the conflict: where its rules or norms are at variance with those in the Information Brochure of OJEE 2026, the counselling brochure supersedes.

On top of the category quotas sit the sub-quotas, all of them restricted to natives of Odisha, and the set changes from one course group to the next. For engineering in government institutions the counselling brochure sets 10% for Economically Weaker Section, 5% each for children of Green Card holders and for Physically Challenged candidates, 3% for children of ex-servicemen, 30% for women, 15% for candidates who completed both high school and higher secondary school in Odisha government schools, 3% for Odia speakers from outlying Odia speaking tracts, and up to 5% supernumerary Tuition Fee Waiver seats for parents whose income from all sources is below Rs 8 lakhs. The Odia-speaking and state-government-school quotas appear in the engineering tables only, and the pharmacy table drops the women's quota as well, so a sub-quota that applies to a B.Tech seat may not exist on an MBA or B.Pharm one. Three of these are settled outside the counselling portal: Physically Challenged candidates must attend the medical board at SCB Medical College, Cuttack, ex-servicemen claims are verified and recommended by the Rajya Sainik Board, Bhubaneswar, and outlying Odia candidates must pass an Odia examination with minimum 40% marks.

A further slice of every private college's intake is set aside for national tests before state merit is applied at all. The counselling brochure reserves 5% of seats for NRI candidates in private professional colleges and another 15% for JEE (MAIN)-2026 in private engineering colleges; for MBA, 15% divided equally among CAT, XAT, CMAT, MAT and ATMA; for MCA and M.Sc (Comp. Sc.), 15% from the NIMCET merit list; and for M.Tech, M.Arch, M.Plan and M.Pharm, 50% of the seats remaining after NRI go to GATE and GPAT holders and 50% to candidates who qualified through OJEE's own PGAT paper. Unfilled seats in each of those pools convert to the general category.

Lateral entry has its own order of precedence. Allotment goes first to LE-Tech diploma rank holders of the state, then to diploma holders from outside the state, and only then to B.Sc. degree holders on the LE-Tech (BSc) list, which the brochure tells LE-Tech (BSc) candidates to bear in mind while filling their choices.

Where it is accepted

Participating institutes

Seats are allotted in government, government-sponsored and private professional and technical institutions across Odisha. The only admitting institution the counselling brochure names outright is Biju Pattanaik Film & Television Institute, Odisha (BPFTIO), Cuttack, which offers the three B.CAT streams in cinematography, film editing, and sound recording and design.

The seat matrix itself is published late, and the Board is blunt about the version it puts up early. Before counselling, the total available or approved seats as approved for the previous year can be seen from the Seat Matrix uploaded on the OJEE website, and the brochure states that this list of colleges and the seats in them is for the previous year and should be used only for reference or as an indicator; the actual seat matrix approved for the academic year is made available on the website at the time of counselling.

Two admission protections apply at the institute, not at the Board. No capitation fee may be collected by a professional or sponsored institution from any candidate in consideration of admission, continuance or promotion, and the Policy Planning Body may recommend a fine not exceeding Rupees Ten Lakhs against the management for contravening that. Complaints about the admission process, procedure or fees can be filed as an affidavit with supporting authenticated documents to the Member Secretary of the Policy Planning Body.

Seats still vacant after the final round leave the central process. The notice on the extended admission deadline tells candidates who want an institute-level admission to visit the websites of the individual colleges and institutes for their vacancy seat matrices and admission details.

Get help

Contact

Two OJEE documents publish two different sets of phone numbers, and which one to ring depends on the stage a candidate is at. The Information Brochure closes with the mobile helplines 7205288121 and 7205266121, staffed from 10.00 AM to 05.00 PM Monday to Saturday except holidays, gives odishaojee@gmail.com for email, and sends letters to the Chairman at OJEE Office, Gandamunda, Khandagiri, Dist Khordha, Bhubaneswar 751030. The counselling brochure repeats both mobiles and adds the landlines 0674-2382101 and 2382108 for the counselling period, on the same hours on working days.

Nothing arrives the other way, and that is the part candidates get caught by. The brochure states that all latest information related to OJEE is published on the Board's two websites, www.ojee.nic.in and www.odishajee.com, only. The counselling brochure goes further: the entire process is online, no communication will be directly sent to any of the candidates, and candidates are advised to be in touch with the website on a regular basis for any updates.

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