JEE Main, JEE Advanced 2021 exam dates, other important announcements made including some relaxations in eligibility criteria for admission in IITs

9-Jan-2021

Update 18-April-2021: JEE Main 2021 April session exams postponed due to rising Covid-19 cases

JEE Main 2021 JEE Advanced 2021 - Exam Dates, Eligibility Criteria and Other Important Changes

JEE Advanced 2021 exam will be organized by IIT Kharagpur and held on July 3, 2021.

Until 2020, students were required to score either minimum 75% in Class 12 Board Exam or be among the top 20 percentile in their board exams, in addition to qualifying the IIT Advanced exam, to get into any of the 23 IITs. From 2021 this eligibility criteria of 75% marks in Class 12 Board Exam has been removed for the convenience of students.

On December 16, the education minister had announced that the JEE Main 2021, conducted by the National Testing Agency (NTA) will be held four times a year in February, March, April and May. The first slot of JEE Main is from February 23-26, 2021. The next sessions of the exam will be held between March 15-18, April 27-30 and May 24-28.

Students will be given a choice to answer 75 questions (25 each in Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics) out of 90 (30 each in Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics). Merit list/ranking will be prepared based on the best score of the candidate.

Here this can be recalled that JEE Main is the exam for entry into undergraduate engineering courses. Those who will qualify in this exam can appear for the JEE Advanced which is the entrance examination for admissions into the IITs. The examination will be held in 13 languages including Hindi, English, Bengali, Assamese, Marathi, Tamil, Odia, Telugu, Kannada, Urdu, Malayalam, Punjabi and Gujarati.

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