The All India Engineering Entrance Examination (AIEEE) is organized by the CBSE in India for admission to various under-graduate courses in engineering and architecture. Admission to the prestigious National Institutes of Technology is through this test.

Students opting for B.Tech or B.E. are tested in physics, mathematics and chemistry. The test duration is 3 hours. The maximum marks and the number of questions vary every year like the CAT.(Total marks were 360 in the year 2007&2008 while it was 540 in 2006). However equal weightage is given to all the three sections. Students opting for B.Arch are tested in mathematics and an aptitude test. It is held in the final Sunday of April and results are announced near may end. Candidates are ranked on an all India basis and also according to their position in state. Thus, they have an All India Rank (AIR) and a state rank(SR).

In 2007, around 850,000 wrote the AIEEE and in 2008 around 862,000 (a whopping 200,000 increment or 32% increment) applicants have already been registered making it one of the largest such admission exams in the world.[1]

All candidates, with the exception of those performing very poorly, are eligible either for central counseling or state-specific or category-specific counseling on basis of their AIR. Counseling for SC/ST candidates and SC/ST physically handicapped candidates is done on the first two days of counseling. Then the physically handicapped in the Open (OP) category are counseled.

The Pattern keeps varying every year as declared by CBSE, the conducting authority of AIEEE. The level of questions follows the NCERT Syllabus of Class 11 and Class 12. From the past 2 years the total marks of the paper is being declared by CBSE in the prospectus without declaring the number of the questions appearing in the exam on the lines of IIT JEE.

In 2008, the AIEEE pattern was similar to that of IIT-JEE, with more applicative questions in mathematics and physics sections.[2] the pattern consisted of comprehension questions and assertion reason questions which might decrease the cut off of the year 2008 and the paper was to test the understanding of the children[3]