How We Verify Dates and Data: Sources, Labels, Corrections

The short version

We try to publish only what a source supports and to show how strong that support is. When the exam body or counselling authority has published a fact and we can read it, we state it plainly. When we can only see it through news and education sites, we say 'reported'. When nobody has announced it, we say 'not announced' and give the date we checked, instead of guessing.

We would rather leave a gap than fill it with a plausible number. A wrong fee or a wrong last date can cost a student an application, so a visible 'we do not know yet' is better than a confident error.

Where a date or figure comes from, in order

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   Step 1: The official source

   The conducting body's own website or document: JoSAA at josaa.nic.in, CSAB at csab.nic.in, JEE Advanced at jeeadv.ac.in, and state bodies such as KEA, CEE Kerala, WBJEEB, the MHT CET cell and the TNEA portal. These are the sources we try first, and where we can read them the fact needs no 'reported' label.

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   Step 2: Named education outlets, several agreeing

   If the official page cannot be read, we look at established education sites that name the notice or the bulletin and give dates. One outlet is not enough for a deadline. We look for several that agree and prefer ones that quote the clause or the notice date. The fact is then marked reported.

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   Step 3: Past-cycle patterns, labelled as expectations

   When nothing is announced, we may describe what happened in earlier cycles (for example, JEE Advanced registration usually opens in late April to early May and JoSAA starts in mid-June after the result). These are labelled expected, never presented as a schedule.

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   Step 4: Say so when it is unknown

   If there is no source, the page says 'not announced' and the date we checked. We do not fill the space with an estimate that looks like a fact.

What our four labels mean

How we handled the JEE Main 2027 bulletin

NTA's JEE Main website, jeemain.nta.nic.in, returned an access-denied response (HTTP 403) to our automated page checks, but the Information Bulletin is a public PDF. We downloaded the official 93-page bulletin released on 24 October 2026 and read it on 15 November 2026. Dates, fees, late fee, upload sizes, exam pattern, eligibility and answer-key challenge rules on our JEE Main pages are taken from it and are no longer labelled reported.

Two things stay open. The bulletin does not list which fields can be edited in the correction window (it says this will be notified later), and a later NTA public notice dated 30 October 2026, which outlets say allows a fresh Session 1 form, is something we have not read. Where the bulletin and that notice differ, we show both and say so.

A student with a browser can read the NTA page directly, and that is where any new notice should be checked.

How we treat conflicting sources

• An official source we can read beats any outlet.
• Between outlets, a source that quotes the notice date or bulletin clause beats one that gives a bare date.
• A newer dated statement beats an older one, and we record the change in the corrections log.
• A figure that only one outlet shows, and that the others contradict, is treated as unreliable and left out. For example, one outlet showed Rs 1,800 for the JEE Main two-paper fee for male EWS and OBC-NCL candidates while others showed Rs 2,000; the bulletin fee table confirms Rs 2,000.
• If we cannot settle it, the page shows both versions and says the conflict exists.
• Third-party claims that a state exam notification has been issued are not accepted without the state body's own page. For example, some aggregator pages claimed October 2026 notifications for several state exams, and we have kept those as 'not announced' as of 15 November 2026.

Conflicts we resolved, described factually

These examples are from the 2026 audit work. They show the rule in practice, including cases where our own earlier pages were wrong.

Cutoffs: reference ranges versus official ranks

An official closing rank is the last rank allotted a seat in a given round, published by the counselling authority after the round. We can quote it for a past round we have read. We cannot know it for a round that has not happened.

For future rounds our pages show reference ranges taken from earlier published ranks. They are labelled that way, and since the 15 November 2026 audit the pages that used 2025-based ranks say so rather than presenting them as expected 2026 or 2027 results. If a closing rank comes from an official release it is labelled with the round and year.

If we do not have a verified, branch-wise table for an institute, we do not publish one. We would rather send you to the official page, as the CSAB NIT Delhi page does.

• Opening and closing ranks change with seat matrix, number of applicants, exam difficulty and round.
• Home-state, other-state, gender-neutral and female-only seats have different ranks for the same branch.
• Percentiles, marks and ranks are different things. We do not convert one into another unless the source does.

Our rule against inventing numbers

We do not make up dates, fees, cutoffs, ranks, percentiles, results, seat counts, numbers of candidates, package figures or quotes. If a figure is not in a source we have, the page says the figure is not available. Where estimates are useful, as in rank predictors, they are labelled as estimates and the method is explained on the tool's page.

The same applies to claims about ourselves. We do not state user numbers, awards or team credentials we cannot document. If you see such a claim anywhere on the site, it is an error; please report it.

How often pages are re-checked

Each page that we verify shows a 'last verified' date. That date means a person or an automated check compared the page with its sources on that day. It does not mean the underlying event cannot have changed since.

Pages with live deadlines are the priority: registration windows, fee amounts, correction windows, city slip and admit card dates. Archive and explainer pages change when the underlying rules change. The site has had full audits on 29 October, 1 November and 15 November 2026. We do not publish a fixed recheck schedule because we cannot promise one.

How to report an error

1. 1

   Copy the page address

   Send the exact URL, for example https://jeecounselling.in/jee-main-2027-registration-fee.

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   Say what is wrong

   Quote the sentence or table row, and what it should say.

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   Attach the source

   Link to the official notice or screenshot it. Official sources let us correct quickly. Without a source we will check but may only add a caution.

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   Send it

   Email contact@jeemate.in or use the contact page. We do not promise a response time.

What this policy does not promise

• It does not promise that every page is free of error. Mistakes have been found and fixed, as the corrections log shows.
• It does not replace the official notices. If this site and an official source differ, the official source is right.
• It does not describe a newsroom or a named review team. It describes the rules the site is edited by.
• It is not legal, financial or admission advice. See the disclaimer.

Sources

• JEE Advanced 2027 (official)
• JoSAA (official)
• CSAB (official)
• NTA JEE Main (official; Information Bulletin PDF read 15 Nov 2026)