Restore JEE Advanced 3rd attempt: Plea in Supreme Court, next hearing on January 6

NEW DELHI: A plea has been filed in the Supreme Court for JEE Advanced 3rd attempt and the next hearing has been scheduled for January 6, 2025. The top court heard the petition filed by the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Advanced 2025 aspirants seeking restoration of three attempts in the entrance exam held for admission to the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs).

22 candidates have filed the plea against the Joint Admission Board (JAB) for changing the number of attempts in the upcoming JEE Advanced exam from two to three, and then back to two.

The board’s decision has put numerous candidates’ futures at stake, who left their engineering courses to try their luck one more time and joined JEE Advanced coaching. IIT Kanpur will be conducting JEE Advanced 2025 on May 18.

The board restored the previous JEE Advanced 2025 eligibility criteria and reduced the number of attempts to two. JAB earlier increased the number of times a candidate can appear for the IIT entrance exam to three, in a major announcement. However, the board scrapped the JEE Advanced third attempt after taking competing requirements into consideration.

JEE Advanced 2025 eligibility

Several IIT JEE Advanced aspirants also took to social media to talk about the cancellation of the extra attempt in JEE Advanced 2025.

An aspirant said in a post on X, “We, the aspirants of JEE Advanced 2025, are going legal against JAB in the Supreme Court to restore the 3rd attempt eligibility. This fight is not just about exams but justice for thousands of students who were misled by policy changes. Support us.”

A JEE Advanced candidate asked, “What about restoring JEE advanced 2025 3rd attempt? Are we not students, do we not matter? It was your fault and we are suffering, if you had to do this then why give at first. Do we count to nothing, do we not matter?”

Sharing his agony, another aspirant posted: “I took second drop just because of the 3rd JEE Advanced attempt update but now after its removal I see no path ahead for my career since one more precious year of mine will go in vain.”

An X user requested the IIT Kanpur director to restore 3rd attempt in the interest of genuine concern of the aspirants who lost years in coaching or abandoned NIT chance.