However, many of them undergo a bit of confusion when they begin their search for courses related to media field. There are courses with many names, but their teaching content almost looks to be same only to confuse students as to what to choose and what to not?

Journalism
This is all about news making. The news related to politics, sports, movies, business and other related fields of importance. This course would tell us about how to handle day-to-day news making operations. The operations like news reporting, news article editing, news presentation, prioritization of news for presentation are familiarized as a part of this course.

Journalism or Mass Comm – Students who study this course can go for jobs in the field of advertising, public relations, publicity generation and also in newspapers, magazines too. People who are more interested in creative writing can go for this course as this offers wider scope for those who wish to write in a creative manner, rather than reporting on regular facts in a precise manner.

Journalism and Mass Comm
This course is a blend of both Journalism and Mass Comm courses. Students who wish to study this course are exposed to nuances of both the individual courses and have a wider scope of choosing jobs in news industry or in the field creativity like advertising, public relations and publicity generation.

Courses offered
Courses related to the media field are offered at both graduate and post-graduate level. They are like BA (Journalism), BA (Mass Communication), BA (Mass Communication and Journalism). The same in post graduation are like MA (Journalism), MA (Mass Communication), MA (Mass Communication and Journalism) and so on. A few education institutions also offer diploma and post graduate diploma courses in journalism and mass communication, students can consider studying them.

Open Education

Many reputed educational institutions in India also offer graduate, post graduate level courses in Journalism and Mass Communication. Even diploma and post graduate diploma courses are offered through open university scheme. Working professionals in various fields including those in the media who cannot spare full-time to study in a regular college can study journalism or mass comm through the open learning stream.

The process of application submission started on 28 October 2024.

This is one of the well-known competitive exams in India that sees registration of more than six lakh students every year. JEE Mains 2025 Application is for the first session.

Hall tickets will be available for download for the applicants about three days before the date on which they will be appearing for their exam.

JEE Mains 2025 Schedule

JEE Mains 2025 will be conducted in two sessions for 2025, the schedule in connection with both the sessions is mentioned below for the sake of the students:

1st Session

The exam will be conducted from 22 to 31 January 2025. JEE Mains 2025 Application submission schedule will open from 28 October to 22 November 2024.

The fee in connection with JEE Mains 2025 Application submission can be paid till 11:50 PM on 22 November 2024. The result will be declared by 12 February 2025.

2nd Session

JEE Mains 2025 Application submission for second session will take place from 31 January to 24 February 2025. The application can be submitted till 9 PM on 24 February 2025.

Admit cards will be available about three days before the actual date of the examination of the applicant. Exam will be conducted from 1 to 8 April 2025 tentatively.

Results for the second session are to be released by 17 April 2025. There is more to it than meets the eye as far as JEE Mains 2025 Application submission is concerned.

The exam will have three papers, Paper 1, Paper 2A, Paper 2B. Paper 1 of JEE Mains 2025 is for students focused on graduation in engineering (BE or BTech).

Students keen on studying under graduation in architecture (BArch) have to appear for Paper 2A, those who wish to study graduation in planning (BPlan) have to appear for Paper 2B.

Architecture aspirants have also to answer questions related to creativity, innovation, drawing along with that of maths, physics and chemistry.

Format of questions will be multiple choice where every question has more than one reply option and the right one has to be chosen for getting marks.

Who can submit JEE Mains 2025 Application?

Students who have passed plus-two from a recognised educational institution with subjects as maths, physics and chemistry can take up JEE Mains 2025 application submission.

Even students who have appeared for the plus-two exams and are waiting for results or who are about to appear for the qualifying exam can also submit JEE Mains 2025 application.

However, these students have to pass the exam and provide proof of it by the time of admission. Not able to do, may lead to cancellation of admission.

The url to access the official website for submitting applications is ‘https://jeemain.nta.ac.in/’

1. The URL mentioned above has to be typed into the browser and submitted to allow the website to download.

2. Once the website is ready, candidates can read all the information about the exam.

3. After knowing everything about the exam, candidates can scroll down the webpage and click JEE(Main)-2025 Session-1 Registration

4. Clicking the above button opens another webpage with URL ‘https://examinationservices.nic.in/JeeMain2025/root/Home.aspx?enc=WPJ5WSCVWOMNiXoyyomJgDUffqDdG1LTsAPBKFcEC9W88CTkt2ITzilIsFR7gKxO’

5. Once the webpage with above URL opens, candidates have to press New Registration on the left side and create an account with username and password.

6. After registration, come back to the same webpage with the same URL mentioned in Point No 4 and type the username and password on the right side and sign in to fill the JEE Mains 2025 Application.

Direct Link To Submit JEE Mains 2025 Application For 1st Session is Here

Post application submission

Individuals who have submitted their JEE Mains 2025 application successfully can download their admit card about three days before they are to appear for the exam.

1. Type the URL mentioned above in the browser and submit it to allow the website to download.

2A. After the website is available, candidates can click the link for admit card and then enter their credentials created during the registration and submit them to view the admit card.

2B. Candidates can also click the registration link for the exam and login using the credentials created during the initial registration to view the admit card.

3. After the admit card is visible, candidates can download and take a printout.

Exam

Candidates have to appear for the exam and then pass it with the required qualifying marks which are also known as cutoff marks.

Students who pass the exam with the required score can take part in the counselling process to obtain seats in NITs, IIITs or IIITDMs.

Those willing to study in IITs have to pass JEE Mains with a score that falls under top 2.5 lakh ranks on a national level to apply for JEE Advanced, a written test required to qualify for admission into IITs.

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