VII. DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS FOR FILLING OMR APPLICATION

i) The application form is in Optical Machine Readable
(OMR) format. That means a special machine reads
only the dark bubbles that you make on the OMR
sheet.
ii) Therefore do not scribble, smudge, cut, tear, or wrinkle
the application form. Do not put any stray pencil
marks anywhere on the application form. Do not write
or place any mark over the barcodes.
iii) To guide you to fill the form correctly, we suggest the
following:
a) Take a photocopy of both sides of the blank OMR
sheet and try to fill them. After making sure that
the entries in this form are correct, you can start
filling-in the original OMR and bubble the
corresponding entries in the sheet, so that you
may avoid errors while filling it. You should only
send the filled original OMR form and NOT this
photocopy form to us.
b) While filling the OMR form, first enter the data in
black ballpoint pen (avoid gel/ink/felt pen as it
might smudge the form) in the boxes provided
above each coding area and then bubble with HB
pencil the corresponding letter in each column
below each box for the machine to read.
c) A sample filled OMR application form is given in
APPENDIX-9 for showing how the application
form appears after bubbling correctly. If there is a
discrepancy between the written data and the
bubbled data in your application, the bubbled data
will be taken as final.
iv) If, by mistake you darkened a wrong bubble and wish
to change it, erase the darkened bubble completely
using a pencil eraser, and then darken the correct
bubble. Do not use any whitener to erase a darkened
bubble.
v) Your application must be complete in all respects.
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You should fill all the fields. Incomplete applications
and applications filled in a language other than English
will be summarily rejected.
Step-by-step instruction to fill the OMR application form
are given below.

S.No. 1: Name of the candidate

Write your name in capital letters as given in your 10th
class certificate or equivalent. Write each single letter in
each of the boxes one by one. Leave only one blank box
between consecutive words of your name. Do not use any
dots in between initials. If your name has several initials,
leave one blank after each of them. Darken the appropriate
alphabet bubble underneath each letter of your name. If
your name requires more than 34 boxes, darken the bubble
marked ‘+’ in the 35th column of the top first row.

S.No. 2: Category

The codes for different categories are as follows.
Category Code
General GE
Scheduled Caste SC
Scheduled Tribe ST
Other Backward Classes
(Non-Creamy Layer) OBC(NCL)
Other Backward Classes
(Creamy Layer) OBC(CL)
Write your category code with ballpoint pen in the space
provided. Darken the appropriate bubble against the
category you belong to.

S.No. 3: Gender

Darken the appropriate bubble.

S.No. 4: Nationality

If you are an Indian citizen living in India then darken the
bubble against “INDIAN”.
If you hold a foreign passport or hold either Person of Indian
Origin (PIO) or Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) status then
darken the bubble against ‘‘FOREIGN’’.

S.No. 5: Year of passing QE (10+2 or equivalent)
and required minimum marks

If you are appearing for 10+2 or an equivalent qualifying
examination for the first time in 2010, you should darken
the bubble “APPEARING IN 2010”. You need not darken
any other bubble below, in this item.
If you have passed 10+2 or an equivalent qualifying
examination for the first time in 2009, or after October 1,
2008 you should darken the bubble corresponding to
“PASSED IN 2009”.
If you have passed 10+2 or an equivalent qualifying
examination for the first time earlier than October 1, 2008
you should darken the bubble corresponding to “Passed
Earlier than 1st Oct 2008”.
If you have obtained the minimum required marks (60%
for GE/OBC/DS or 55% for SC/ST/PD) in the first attempt
itself, no need to darken any bubble below, in this item.
If you have obtained the minimum required marks (60%
for GE/OBC/DS or 55% for SC/ST/PD) by attempting an
“improvement examination”, darken the bubble
corresponding to the year of the improvement examination.

S.No. 6: This attempt at JEE and year of first attempt

If you are writing JEE for the first time darken the bubble
corresponding to “FIRST”.
If it is your second attempt bubble “SECOND”. In this case,
also darken the appropriate bubble corresponding to the
year of your first attempt at JEE.

S.No. 7: Sub-category and type of disability

If you have any physical disability, then darken the bubble
against PD; if you belong to the DS category, then darken
the bubble marked DS; else bubble “NONE”.
If you have darkened the bubble against PD and the type
of disability is related to poor eye sight with more than
40% disability, then darken the bubble against “Poor Eye
Sight”. In case of all other physical disabilities darken the
bubble corresponding to “OTHERS”.
If you have poor eyesight and require a question paper
with enlarged font then you must send a request letter, in
the format given in APPENDIX-10, along with the
application form.

S.No. 8: Date of birth

Enter the date, month, and year of your birth as per the
English calendar and as recorded in your 10th class or
equivalent certificate. Use numerals 01 to 31 for DATE, 01
to 12 (corresponding to January - December) for MONTH,
and the last two digits of the YEAR of birth (the digits ‘19’
is already there). For example, if you were born on 6th
March 1992, then the date should be entered as follows:
“06 03 92”. Darken the appropriate bubbles for the date,
month, and year in each column.

S.No. 9: Pincode of permanent place of
residence

Write the PINCODE of your permanent place of residence
in the space provided. Darken the bubble corresponding
to the appropriate numeral underneath each digit.

S.No. 10: Choice of examination cities

APPENDIX-4 gives the list of the cities/towns and their
corresponding codes where the examination centres are
located. Select two different city codes both from the same
zone. Your first preference must be entered under
CHOICE-I and the second under CHOICE-II. Then darken
the bubble corresponding to the appropriate numeral (code)
in each column.

S.No. 11: Choice of counselling centre

If you belong to GE category skip this. If you belong to
SC, ST, OBC, PD or DS category or holding a foreign
passport, then darken the bubble corresponding to the
institute where you want to be counselled.

S.No. 12: Candidate’s name and complete
mailing address

Write the complete postal address to which any
communication is to be sent from December 2009 to July
2010. The address must include your name, phone
number, c/o name (if required), and other details, including
the PINCODE. Indicate mobile number/land-line number
with the STD code, and e-mail address. Please note that
this block will be machine scanned, and, therefore, it should
be written very clearly in CAPITAL LETTERS using a black
ballpoint pen only. E-mail address may contain small
block letters. Your address must not overflow this box.
Do NOT give the address of your school / college or
any other institute here.

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