JEE Advanced 2025 eligibility criteria out; number of attempts increased to 3

NEW DELHI: The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur will organise the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Advanced 2025. The institute has announced the JEE Advanced 2025 eligibility criteria for Indian and foreign nationals on the official website, jeeadv.ac.in. In a major rejig, the number of attempts has been increased to three times which was twice earlier.

IITK will soon release the JEE Advanced 2025 information bulletin containing exam date, registration process, application fee, exam pattern, syllabus, marking scheme, and more on the JEE Advanced 2025 official website.

Students who qualify JEE Main 2025 will be eligible for appearing in JEE Advanced 2025. The exam will be held for admission to the IITs.

JEE Advanced 2025 eligibility criteria

Everything except the JEE Advanced attempt limit remains the same in JEE Advanced eligibility 2025. Aspirants are required to fulfill each and every criterion given below.

Criterion A1: Performance in JEE Main 2025:

Candidates should be among the top 2,50,000 successful candidates (including all categories) in JEE Main 2025 paper 1 for BE, BTech. The category-wise distribution of top 2.5 lakh candidates in JEE Main 2025 will be as follows:

Criterion A2: Age limit

Candidates should have been born on or after October 1, 2000. A relaxation of five years is given to SC, ST, and PwD candidates. Thus, these candidates should have been born on or after October 1, 1995.

Criterion A3: Number of attempts

A candidate can attempt JEE Advanced 2025 maximum of three times in three consecutive years.

Criterion A4: Appearance in Class 12

• A candidate should have appeared for the Class 12 (or equivalent) examination for the first time in either 2023 or 2024 or 2025 with Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics as compulsory subjects.
• Candidates who had appeared in Class 12 (or equivalent) examination for the first time in 2022 or earlier, are not eligible to appear in JEE Advanced 2025, irrespective of the combination or number of subjects attempted/offered.
• If the respective board of Class 12 (or equivalent) declared the results for the academic year 2021-22 on or after September 21, 2022, then the candidates of that board are also eligible to appear in JEE Advanced 2025, provided they meet all the other eligibility criteria.

Criterion A5: Admission at IITs previously

• A candidate should not have been admitted to an IIT under any academic programme that is listed in JoSAA Business Rules 2024 or earlier, irrespective of whether or not the candidate continued in the programme or accepted an IIT seat by reporting in the past. Candidates whose admission to IITs was cancelled (for whatever reason) after joining any IIT are also not eligible to appear for JEE Advanced 2025.
• Candidates who have been admitted to a preparatory course in any of the IITs for the first time in 2024 can appear in JEE Advanced 2025.
• Candidates who were allocated a seat in an IIT through JoSAA but did not report “online” or, withdrew before the last round of seat allotment, or had their seat cancelled (for whatever reason) before the last round of seat allotment for IITs, are eligible to appear for JEE Advanced 2025.