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Joint Entrance Examination JEE Mains will be conducted by the NTA from 2019 onwards. This Examination was being conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) till 2018. JEE Main is applicable for admission to NITs, IIITs and CFTIs participating though Central Seat Allocation Board subject to the condition that the candidate should have secured at least 75% marks in the 12th class examination, or be in the top 20 percentile in the 12th class examination conducted by the respective Boards. For SC/ST candidates the qualifying marks would be 65% in the 12th class examination. Still, if you looking for a good engineering college there are colleges who offer lateral entry to 2nd year directly with their some criteria and examination. You can check these details on the college's official website.

There are many colleges in DU, more than 70+ colleges. On the contrary JMI is a central university and it has no other branches and therefore your administrative works can be done in one go. But DU has many colleges and for administrative works you have to visit from one office to other office I. e college to DU offices. Not every colleges are good in infrastructure and library but you can get good infrastructure in JMI and air conditioned Libraries. It's campus is beautiful and well maintained. You can enjoy its variants canteen. Some DU colleges have also good infrastructure like library and canteen but it depends in which college and which course you get enrolled. I was the student of both Jmi and Du. I luckily get good canteen and library in both. But JMI campus is more spacious and beautiful because in DU we get enrolled in one college and it depends on college campus which varies from college to college. Study culture depends on your group whether you are in DU colleges or in JMI. If you want to be academicians then JMI is best as per my experience because the marking scheme of DU is lagging behind JMI and also in implementing policies where JMI works as one single unit so it's implementation of UGC guidelines is swiftly as compare to DU colleges. You can compare the marking scheme of Post graduation with Jmi where DU students lag behind JMI students. It is not about competency but about the official implementation dalay in DU due to many colleges work as one unit which take times. In which course you want to enroll just go through that department faculty and their academic records like their publication in International journals. And also if you have already study in one university than your choice should be other university but it also depends on course and colleges. Like if you are getting St. Stephen than there is no other option but you can also consider your accommodation and time travel then even you can reject St. Stephen. Ultimately it depends on person what s/he wants to be. Ex student of D-school & JMI.

Most of the PSUs now recruit graduate trainees through GATE examination. The one's that don't either conduct their own test or recruit from colleges directly. The one's that recruit through GATE shortlist the candidates based on their respective GATE scores and dispatch the call letters in the month of June. For mechanical stream, interviews usually begin in the last week of June and continue till the end of September. Interview process generally consists of GD (group discussion), get ( group task) and PI ( personal interview). Different companies opt for different process. BPCL- GD, PI- Tech and PI- HR
RITES- GD and PI
BHEL- PI
NTPC- GD and PI
IOCL- GD, get and PI
HPCL- GD and PI
ONGC- PI
NLC- PI
MDL- PI
Group discussion is on topics concerning our everyday lives like education system, government policies etc. Or you could be presented with some case study. Personal Interviews are a bit tricky because the scope of questions is quite wide. They literally ask you anything. You can even expect questions on current affairs. One question that you would face in every interview will be the hypothetical situation that Let's suppose you get selected in 34 PSU's apart from ours. Which one would you opt for and why? Obviously you'll have to speak in favor of the one you're currently attending and it becomes really difficult if the company in question is inferior in all prospects. Results are generally declared in the month of August but can get delayed sometimes if company decides to change the vacancies. Post declaration of results, selected candidates are called for medical examination. Few PSU's namely BHEL, HPCL, ONGC, RITES also declare a list of candidates in waiting which is a good step.