Hello,

At first according to your first query the answer would be yes  it is possible to change your category or gender mistakes incase you made a mistake. For that you have to Visit the official website for JOAPS. This gives the student a chance to edit their applications. They would take some additional fees for changing the mistakes. Often these changes are not guaranteed and the fees is obviously non-refundable. They have divided the candidates into two categories that is group 1 and group 2. Group 1 consists of females of all categories and SC/ST/PWDs and Group 2 consists of the rest of the candidates.

No additional fees is required for group 1 but for group 2 you have to pay Rs750 for 1 paper and if you want to edit for both papers then you have to pay Rs1050.

Now ews has been announced lately so there is no detail of benefits from previous years. But what I can assure you is that yes it would affect you as in ews would have seats for financially weak students so that would be an issue. Moreover, even if you have chances to acquire a seat in ews you will ineligible for it.

Good luck.