If you want to pursue Engineering or Science and Technology courses from NIT's/IIT's then JEE MAINS is must for you.  By having a good rank in JEE MAINS you can take admission in NIT and on qualifying the cutoff of JEE MAINS you can appear for JEE ADVANCED. So if you score well and get a good enough rank then you can take admission in IIT.

Apart from this very few colleges also accept the JEE MAINS score and other exam scores. So JEE MAINS is one of the entrance which will satisfy your purpose for the above mentioned specifics. But if you don't want to go for it then you have many other entrances like the State Engineering Entrance (WBJEE.OJEE.MHTCET etc), private Engineering college entrances like BITSAT, VITEEE,SRMJEE etc.

So JEE MAINS isn't a compulsory entrance.

To know more about JEE MAINS you may visit the link below:

https://engineering.careers360.com/exams/jee-main

I hope my answer helps. All the very best for your future endeavors!

Hi

No, jee main is not compulsory for entrance/admission into btech/BE i. e Engineering.

You can get examination without jee main examination as well. There are many state level entrance examination and college level entrance examination which you can go for.

Some of the top entrance examination other than jee are listed below:-

*West Bengal Joint Entrance Exam (WBJEE)

*Birla Institute of Technology and Science Admission Test

*SRM Joint Engineering Entrance Exam (SRMJEEE)

*VIT Engineering Entrance Exam (VITEEE)

*Uttar Pradesh State Entrance Examination

*Amrita Entrance Examination - Engineering (AEEE)

*National Aptitude Test in Architecture (NATA)

*Consortium of Medical, Engineering and Dental Colleges of Karnataka Under Graduate Entrance Test (COMEDK UGET)

*Karnataka Common Entrance Test (KCET)

*Andhra Pradesh Engineering Agriculture and Medical Common Entrance Test (AP EAMCET)

*Telangana State Engineering Agriculture and Medical Common Entrance Test (TS EAMCET)

*Symbiosis Entrance Test (SET)

*Indraprastha University Common Entrance Test (IPU CET)

For detailed list of entrance go through

https://engineering.careers360.com/exams?sort_filter=pop

Also,

There are some state level counselling for admission in engineering colleges on the basis of class 12th marks.

• Tamil Nadu Engineering Admissions i. e TNEA :- admission is  on the the basis of your marks obtained in the qualifying exam i.e. 10+2.

• Rajasthan Engineering Admission Process i.e REAP :-  your admission is through 12th marks and jee main also . 2 seperate merit list are prepared i. e for JEE Main and for admission on class 12th marks basis

• Madhya Pradesh B.E. Admission :- Counselling is  conducted separately for those applying through JEE Main and  those applying on the basis of 12th marks

• B.Tech admission at Sastra University:- For stream 1 , counselling is conducted on the basis of jee main and your normalized 12th score. While for stream 2, counselling is conducted completely on the basis of your 12th marks.

https://engineering.careers360.com/articles/btech-admissions-on-basis-of-class-12th

But in case, if you want to get admission in BE/ BTEch in NITS, IIITs, CFTIs etc then yes JEE main is compulsory and the only way to get admission.

Thank you