JEE Main 2025: Session 1 exam schedule out; city intimation slip soon

The JEE Mains 2025 city slip is expected to be out in the first week of January, as stated in the NTA information bulletin. 

Yes, as per the JEE Main 2025 session 1 schedule, the exams will conclude on January 30 instead of January 31.

NTA has recently announced the JEE Main 2025 schedule for session 1 exams. As per the schedule, JEE Main 2025 session 1 exam will be held from January 22 to 30. 

The duration of JEE Main 2025 exams varies by paper:

• Paper 1 (BE, BTech): 3 hours.
• Paper 2A (BArch) and Paper 2B (BPlanning): 3 hours 30 minutes

According to the JEE Main 2025 schedule, BTech paper will be conducted January 22, 23, 24, 28 and 29. 

As per the NTA notice, the JEE Mains 2025 exam will be conducted on January 22, 23, 24, 28, 29 and 30. Earlier, the JEE Mains 2025 exam was scheduled to be conducted from January 22 to 31. 

According to the JEE Main 2025, BArch and B Planning are scheduled on January 30.

As per the JEE Main 2025 schedule, there is no exam scheduled on January 31, 2025. The JEE Main 2025 session 1 will be held from January 22 to 30. 

As per the NTA JEE Main 2025 session 1 schedule, the exam will be conducted from January 22 to 30. 

As per NTA JEE Main 2025 schedule, the duration of Paper 2A (B Arch) and Paper 2B (B Planning) is 3 hours 30 minutes.

As per the JEE Main 2025 schedule announced by NTA, paper 1 (BE, B Tech) will be conducted in two shifts

• First shift 9:00 am to 12 noon
• Second shift: 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm

As per JEE Main 2025 schedule, paper 2 (2A and 2B) will be conducted only in single shift from 3 pm to 6:30 pm. 

As per JEE Mains 2025 schedule, Paper 1 (BE, BTech) will be conducted in two shifts: first shift from 9 am to 12 noon and second shift from 3 pm to 6 pm.

 As per the JEE Mains 2025 schedule, Paper 1 (BE, B Tech) will be held on January 22, 23, 24, 28 and 29.

NTA has announced the JEE Mains 2025 schedule for session 1. Candidates can have a look at the JEE Mains schedule 2025 below. 

As per the JEE Main 2025 session 1 schedule, paper 2A (B Arch) and paper 2B (B Planning) will be conducted on January 30.

NTA has announced the JEE Main 2025 exam schedule today, January 1. As per the JEE Main 2025 schedule, Paper 1 (BE, B Tech) will be held on January 22, 23, 24, 28 and 29.

Candidates from the General and OBC-NCL categories are required to have secured at least 75% marks in their Class 12 board exams or be in the top 20 percentile of their respective boards.

The JEE Main 2025 official website is jeemain.nta.nic.in.

The Joint Entrance Examination (Main) is conducted for admission to BTech, BArch and BPlan courses at NITs, IIITs, other Centrally Funded Technical Institutions (CFTIs)

The following are the JEE Mains 2025 deleted syllabus from physics

• Scalars and vectors
• Vectors
• Addition and Subtraction
• Scalar and Vector products
• Unit vectors
• Resolution of vectors

The toughest section in JEE Mains varies for each candidate based on their strengths and weaknesses. However, generally mathematics is considered the toughest due to complexity of problems and lengthy calculations.

Scoring 170 marks in JEE Main 2025 will typically correspond to achieving 98.52824811-98.99673561 percentile.

Candidates will be able to download their JEE city slip using their application number and password by visiting the official website, jeemain.nta.nic.in.

Good marks in JEE Mains 2025 will be in the range from 150+ for decent colleges to 250+ for top-tier NITs and qualifying for JEE Advanced.

In the event of a tie between candidates with the same total NTA score, the following criteria will be used to resolve it, in order:

• Higher NTA score in Mathematics

• Higher NTA score in Physics

• Higher NTA score in Chemistry

• Lower ratio of attempted incorrect answers to correct answers across all subjects in the test

• Lower ratio of attempted incorrect answers to correct answers in Mathematics

• Lower ratio of attempted incorrect answers to correct answers in Physics

• Lower ratio of attempted incorrect answers to correct answers in Chemistry

• If a tie still persists, candidates will be awarded the same rank.

The registered aspirants can download the JEE Main admit card through the official website, jeemain.nta.nic.in. The NTA is expected to issue the JEE Main 2025 hall ticket on January 19.

The National Testing Agency (NTA) has been conducting the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE Main) for admission in IITs, NITs, and other centrally funded technical institutes (CFTIs) since 2019. The ministry of education, Government of India has entrusted the responsibility of conducting the JEE Main to the NTA.

The total marks for JEE Main 2025 is 300. Each section will have 25 compulsory questions, including 20 multiple-choice questions (MCQs) and five numerical value questions (NVQs). The NTA has removed the options questions for this year.

As per the JEE Main revised exam pattern, the National Testing Agency (NTA) has removed the optional questions in section B from paper 1 and 2. While, five question in the section are compulsory.

The Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Main 2025 city slip will be issued soon on the official website, jeemain.nta.nic.in. The advance city intimation slip is not the admit card of JEE Main 2025. It only mentions the city wherein a candidate's examination centre will be located. The exam authorities will release the exam city slip in advance to help aspirants make accommodation and travel arrangements, as per requirement. 

Changes introduced in JEE Main 2025: 

• JEE Main 2025 new website is jeemain.nta.nic.in.
• NTA has dropped optional questions from section B of both the JEE Main papers. Candidates will now have to attempt all five questions.
• JEE Main 2025 tie-breaking rule has been revised.
• NTA has dropped age criteria from JEE Mains 2025. 
• NTA has cut the number of exam cities from 300 to 284 this year. The number of international exam cities has also been reduced. 

The National Testing Agency (NTA) has notified the guidelines for Persons with Disabilities (PwD) candidates appearing for the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Main 2025. According to the guidelines, PwD and PwBD aspirants will get an extra time of at least one hour in the three-hour exam. The additional time will be called as compensatory time. 

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The National Testing Agency (NTA) will commence the session 1 of the Joint Entrance Examination - Main (JEE Main 2025) on January 22. When it comes to JEE Main 2025 preparation tips, the subject experts and coaching institutes advise focusing on core concepts, studying from NCERT textbooks, practising mock tests, and checking previous year question papers. 

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The Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Main admit card 2025 will be issued three days before the exam. JEE Main 2025 session 1 will commence from January 21, 2025. 

The National Institutes of Technology (NITs) will admit students to their BTech programmes through the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Main 2025. The highest JEE Main cut-off at which an NIT closed admission to BTech mechanical engineering last year was 9,305 at NIT Tiruchirappalli.

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Here’s the JEE Mains syllabus 2025 for chemistry and topic-wise weightage and marks, as per previous year’s question paper analysis.

Scoring 120 marks in JEE Main 2025 will typically correspond to achieving 96.0687115-96.93721175 percentile.

The number of questions in each section of JEE Main 2025 exam is mentioned below.

• Physics- 20 MCQ and 5 numerical value questions
• Chemistry- 20 MCQ and 5 numerical value questions
• Mathematics- 20 MCQ and 5 numerical value questions

The expected JEE Mains marks vs percentile 2025 are given below. 

The expected marks required to clear JEE Main 2025 are approximately 90-95 percentile for the General category candidates.

Candidates will be required to enter their application number and password to login at the JEE Main 2025 official website. 

Candidates can have a look at the JEE Main 2025 total marks for each paper below. 

• 300 marks for Paper-1 (BE, BTech)
• 400 marks for Paper-2A (BArch)
• 400 marks for Paper-2B (BPlan)

Scoring 200 marks in JEE Main 2025 will typically correspond to achieving 99.39319714- 99.56019541 percentiles. 

The following are the JEE Mains 2025 deleted syllabus from physics

• Scalars and vectors
• Vectors
• Addition and Subtraction
• Scalar and Vector products
• Unit vectors
• Resolution of vectors

Candidates can have a look at the JEE Mains 2025 high scoring topics from chemistry below.

• Markovnikov’s rule, Anti-Markovnikov addition
• Reduction, Oxidation, Properties of Phenols, Carboxylic Acids
• Hoffmann Bromamide, Azo-Coupling, Basicity of amines
• IUPAC nomenclature, Structural isomerism
• Amino acids, Proteins, Polysaccharides 

Scoring 170 marks in JEE Main 2025 will typically correspond to achieving 98.52824811-98.99673561 percentile.

Candidates can have a look at the JEE Mains 2025 high-scoring topics from physics below

As per the revised JEE Main 2025 exam pattern, section B will now have only 5 questions per subject, and candidates will be required to answer all 5 questions. 

Candidates can have a look at the JEE Main 2025 exam duration details below

• 3 hours for BTech, BArch, BPlan
• 3.5 hours for BArch and BPlanning both
• 4 hours for PwD candidates

The JEE Main 2025 will be conducted twice a year- January and April. JEE Main 2025 session 1 exam will be conducted from January 22 to 31. 

Scoring 250 marks in JEE Main 2025 will likely corresponds to achieving a percentile of above 95.

JEE Mains syllabus 2025 for physics and topic-wise weightage and marks, as per previous year’s question paper analysis are given below. 

The JEE Main 2025 session 1 exam will be conducted from January 22 to 31.

The JEE Mains admit card will be issued three days before the exam, on January 19, 2025. 

The JEE Mains 2025 will be conducted in 13 languages - Assamese, Bengali, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu in addition to Hindi, English, and Gujarati.

NTA has revised the exam pattern for the JEE Main 2025 exam. According to the new update, the JEE Main 2025 section B will not include optional questions. It will include only 5 questions per subject in JEE Main and students will be required to answer all five questions. The JEE Main syllabus will include three subjects: Physics, chemistry, and maths. 

The first session of the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Main 2025 will be conducted from January 22 to 31. The National Testing Agency (NTA) will conduct the exam in two shifts -- session 1 from 9 am to 12 noon and session 2 from 3 pm to 6 pm. 

JEE Main 2025 session 1 will be conducted from January 22 to 31 in a computer-based test mode. The JEE Main 2025 Paper 1 will comprise two sections -- Section A and Section B. As per the JEE Main 2025 revised exam pattern, the section A will consist of 20 multiple-choice questions (MCQs), and section B will have 5 numerical value questions (NVQs). As per experts, JEE Main 2025 preparation should include focusing on understanding concepts, practising consistently, learning time management, following NCERT textbooks, solving previous years' question papers, among other steps. 

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NTA has revised the JEE Main 2025 tie-break rule. The age of candidates and JEE Main 2025 application numbers will no longer be considered when assigning ranks to candidates with identical scores. Instead, rankings will be based solely on students' performance in the exam. If candidates are evenly matched on performance, they will be awarded the same JEE Main rank.  

The JEE Main 2025 session 1 will be conducted as follows:

JEE Main 2025 exam structure. 

Last years' JEE Main closing ranks for the gender-neutral open category seats in the engineering programmes offered by NIT AP were as follows: 

 Candidates will soon be able to download the JEE Mains exam city slip at jeemain.nta.nic.in

Candidates can have a look at the JEE Main 2025 physics syllabus below.

No, according to the JEE Main 2025 information bulletin, the session 1 city slip will be out in the first week of January.

As per past trends and analysis by Careers 360 experts, 180 marks will be between the range of 99.02 to 99.34 JEE Mains 2025 percentile.

The following are the high-weightage JEE Main 2025 mathematics topics (as shared by experts). 

• Complex number
• Calculus
• Vector and 3D
• Probability
• Trigonometric equation
• Properties of triangles
• Quadratic equation
• Sequence and series
• Permutations and combination

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The National Testing Agency (NTA) will be conducting the JEE MAIN 2025 exam in the Computer Based Test (CBT) mode. Read more

The candidates can download their JEE MAIN 2025 admit card by login through official link jeemain.nta.nic.in. The National Testing Agency (NTA) is expected to issue the JEE MAIN 2025 admit card on January 19. To download the admit card, candidates have to enter their login credentials such as application number, date of birth on the login page through the official website.

The JEE MAINS 2025 exam date for session 2 is between April 1 to April 8. The eligible candidates can submit an online application from January 1 to February 24 through official website. The last date for submission of application fee is February 24 upto 11:50 pm. The registered candidates can download  the admit cards from the National Testing Agency (NTA) official website three days before date of the examination. The examination for JEE MAINS 2025 session 2 will be held between April 1 to April 8 2025 and the results will be declared on April 17.

The JEE MAINS 2025 exam is divided into two sections, paper 1 and paper 2. The paper 1 for the JEE MAINS 2025 will include physics, chemistry and mathematics. While, for paper 2, there are mathematics, aptitude test, drawing test and planning board questions. Candidates can check the detail syllabus of JEE MAIN through official website, jeemain.nta.nic.in.

The city intimation slip for the JEE MAINS session 1 will be available in the first week of January 2025. The registered candidates can download the admit cards from the National Testing Agency (NTA) official website three days before the date of the examination. The exam date for the JEE MAIN 2025 session 1 will be between January 22 to January 31. The NTA will announce the results for JEE MAIN 2025 session 1 on February 12.

Registered candidates will be able to download their JEE Main exam city intimation slip 2025 for session 1 through the official website, jeemain.nta.nic.in. 

The Joint Seat Allocation Authority (JoSAA) conducts the JEE counselling for admission to National Institutes of Technology (NITs), Centrally funded-technical institutes (CFTIs), and other participating engineering institutions based on the JEE Main 2025 All India Rank (AIR).

NIT Trichy has increased the JEE Main cut-offs for most of its BTech courses in the last 4 years. The institute offers admission to students based on their BE, BTech paper 1 score, and JEE Main 2025 rank. NIT Trichy is the only NIT to retain a position in the top 10 engineering colleges in India for the past 6 years, as per the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) rankings.

The NTA has decreased the number of JEE Mains 2025 international exam cities from 24 to 14. International locations that have been removed this year include, Sri Lanka, Qatar, UAE (Dubai), Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, Hong Kong, Mauritius, Russia, South Africa, Thailand, and Vietnam.

According to the NTA, the JEE Main 2025 results will likely be out by February 12, 2025. The JEE Main 2025 result will be announced on the official website, jeemain.nta.nic.in.

Candidates can check the JEE Mains 2025 session 1 schedule given below-

JEE Main 2025 session 1 exam will be conducted from January 22 to 31, 2025 while the session 2 will be held from April 1 to 8, 2025.  

No, the 75% eligibility criteria is not removed for JEE Main 2025 for General category students. As per the eligibility criteria, candidates who qualify for admission in NITs, IIITs and centrally-funded technical institutes (CFTIs) should have obtained at least 75% marks in Class 12 to be considered eligible for admission. 

75% eligibility criteria in JEE Mains 2025. (Representational/ PTI)

In the case of a tie between candidates with identical JEE Main scores, National Testing Agency (NTA) uses the following criteria to resolve it:

• Higher NTA score in Mathematics
• Higher NTA score in Physics
• Higher NTA score in Chemistry
• Lower ratio of incorrect answers to correct answers across all subjects in the test
• Lower ratio of incorrect answers to correct answers in Mathematics
• Lower ratio of incorrect answers to correct answers in Physics
• Lower ratio of incorrect answers to correct answers in Chemistry

If a tie still exists after applying these criteria, candidates will be assigned the same rank.

No, the JEE Main 2025 session 1 admit card will be available in the online mode only. To download the JEE Main 2025 admit card students will have to use their login details at jeemain.nta.nic.in.

As per the JEE Main 2024 exam analysis, candidates found the session 2 exams more challenging compared to session 1 held in January. Mathematics was rated the most difficult subject due to its lengthy and calculative questions, while chemistry, heavily based on NCERT, was considered tougher than physics. Physics included a mix of theory and formula-based questions. 

NTA has announced the JEE Main 2025 exam date for session 1 and 2. The JEE Mains session 1 exam will be conducted from January 22 to 31, 2025.

The JEE Main session 1 admit card 2024 will contain the following details

• Candidate name
• Roll number
• Name of exam
• Exam session
• Exam centre
• Reporting time
• Subject details
• Exam day guidelines 

Engineering graduates have been struggling to find jobs through campus placements. Even the top BTech branches including computer science and mechanical engineering at the IITs and the NITs saw a drop in placement rates this year. Companies prefer recruiting off-campus since pandemic and are opting for limited visits to the campuses.

Engineering graduates struggling with campus placements. (Representational/ Wikimedia Commons)

The NTA has revised the JEE Main 2025 exam pattern. As per the JEE Main 2025 revised pattern, section B will not include optional questions. There will be only 5 questions per subject in JEE Main and students will be required to answer all 5 questions.

The National Testing Agency (NTA) has added Germany as international exam centre this year. Munich has been identified as the new exam city in Germany for JEE Mains this year.

The official website of JEE Mains 2025 is jeemain.nta.nic.in.

JEE Main exam is conducted for admission to the engineering and architecture programmes at the National Institutes of Technology (NITs), Indian Institutes of Information Technology (IIITs), and other institutions. It will also be used as an eligibility test for JEE Advanced 2025.

The details of NTA JEE Main 2025 helpline numbers and email are as follows: 

• Helpline Number: 011-40759000 
• E-mail: jeemain@nta.ac.in

Till now, NTA has not mandated any criteria for the age of candidates appearing for the JEE Mains 2025.

As per the exam guidelines, PwD and PwBD candidates will get an additional time of a minimum of one hour for the three-hour JEE Mains 2025 exam. Moreover, the word extra or additional time will be called compensatory time. The facility of a scribe will be granted on the production of relevant certificates.

As per the JEE Main eligibility criteria for 2025, candidates are allowed to appear for the exam up to three consecutive years, providing a maximum of six attempts.

The expected JEE Mains marks vs percentile 2025 are given below. 

Candidates can check the NTA JEE Mains 2025 session 1 schedule below-

Candidates can have a look at the list of other engineering entrance exams for BTech admissions 2025 below: 

• VITEEE
• SRMJEEE
• BITSAT
• KIITEE
• AP EAMCET
• KCET    
• COMEDK UGET
• MHT CET
• WBJEE
• MET

The JEE Mains 2025 will be conducted in 13 languages - Assamese, Bengali, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu in addition to Hindi, English, and Gujarati.

The JEE main 2025 syllabus includes topics from three subjects - physics, chemistry, mathematics.

The NTA has revised the JEE Main 2025 exam pattern. As per the JEE Main 2025 revised pattern, section B will not include optional questions. There will be only 5 questions per subject in JEE Main and students will be required to answer all 5 questions.

JEE Main 2025 session 1 exam city intimation slip includes the details of the city where students will be allotted an exam centre. The exam centre details will be provided in the JEE Main admit card. The link for students to download the admit card will be available on the official website soon. 

JEE Main admit card 2025 will be issued three days before the exam.The JEE Main admit card date 2025 will tentatively be out on January 19.

The JEE Main exam 2025 city slip provides information about the exam city. Registered candidates will be able to download the JEE Main 2025 city slip by visiting the official website, jeemain.nta.nic.in.

As per the NTA information bulletin, the JEE Main 2025 exam city slip will be out in the first week of January. JEE Main 2025 exam city slip will be issued on the official website, jeemain.nta.nic.in.

The JEE Main 2025 exam will be conducted from January 22 to 31 for session 1 at various exam centres across the country.

Candidates will be able to download the JEE Main 2025 city slip by visiting the official website, jeemain.nta.nic.in.

The National Testing Agency will issue the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Main 2025 exam city slip for session 1 soon.