JEE Main 2025 Live: NTA official website, new pattern out; exam date, registration updates

The National Institutes of Technology (NITs) will admit students to their BTech programmes through the Joint Entrance Examination - Main (JEE Main) 2025. The admission process is conducted by the joint seat allocation authority which also releases institute-wise and course-wise NIT cut-offs for all programmes. The recent opening and closing ranks for BTech CSE at NITs were as follows:

JEE Main application form 2025 will be released on the new official website, jeemain.nta.nic.in soon. The steps to apply for JEE Main 2025 are as follows:

• Go to jeemain.nta.nic.in
• Click on the link for JEE Main 2025 application form
• Register using email ID and other details
• Fill the application form and upload the documents
• Preview the information before saving
• Pay the application fee using the available payment options
• Take a screenshot of the confirmation page

No, the eligibility criteria of 75% marks in Class 12 exam has not been removed from JEE Main. Candidates were required to secure at least 75% marks in 12th or be in top 20 percentile to be eligible for admission to NITs, IIITs, and other participating institutions last year. The National Testing Agency (NTA) will announce changes, if any, to JEE Main eligibility in the JEE Main 2025 information bulletin.

NTA will commence the JEE Main 2025 registration soon at jeemain.nta.nic.in. The following documents will be required for JEE Main registration 2025:

• Scanned image of photograph
• Scanned image of signature
• Class 10, 12 certificates
• Debit card, credit card, payment details
• Photo identity proof

JEE Main 2025 information bulletin will contain details on exam date, registration dates, eligibility, mode of exam, medium of question papers, exam scheme, exam pattern, duration of test, syllabus, exam cities, admit card, among others. NTA will release the JEE Main information bulletin 2025 on the official website, jeemain.nta.nic.in.

While the experts recommend NCERT books for JEE Main 2025 preparation , some of the best books to prepare for JEE Mains 2025 are as follows:

Physics

• Concepts of physics (Vol. 1 and 2) by HC Verma
• Understanding physics by Freedman and Young
• Problems in physics by SS Krotov

Chemistry

• Concise Inorganic Chemistry by J D Lee
• Physical Chemistry by PW Atkins
• Organic Chemistry by O P Tandon

Mathematics

• Objective Mathematics by R D Sharma
• Plane Trigonometry by S L Loney
• Play with Graphs by Amit M Agarwal (Arihant Publications)

A total of 9,24,636 common candidates registered for JEE Main paper 1 (BE, BTech) last year, of which, 8,22,899 appeared for the engineering entrance exam. JEE Main session 1 saw over 12 lakh applicants while 11.79 lakh candidates submitted applications for session 2 in the previous year.

NTA will notify JEE Main 2025 syllabus along with JEE Main 2025 registration date and NTA JEE Main information bulletin 2025. Some of the important topics under each subject are as follows:

The Joint Entrance Examination - Main (JEE Main) 2025 session 1 will be conducted in the last week of January, according to Goa board which rescheduled state board exams 2025 to avoid clash with the engineering entrance exam. The exam will likely be held in two sessions -- session 1 and session 2. The JEE Main 2025 registration for first session is expected to commence in November.

As per the JEE Main marking scheme, candidates will be awarded four marks for each correct answer. There will be a negative marking and one mark will be deducted for every incorrect response. No marks will be given for questions left unanswered.

The National Testing Agency (NTA) has provided the previous years' question papers on the official website for candidates to get an idea of the exam pattern and type of questions. The steps to download JEE Main PYQ are as follows:

• Go to jeemain.nta.ac.in
• Click on download or archive tab
• Now, click on JEE Main PYQ
• A question paper PDF will be displayed
• Download the JEE Main previous year question paper PDF

As per NIRF 2024, the top engineering colleges in India are given below.

• IIT Madras
• IIT Delhi
• IIT Bombay
• IIT Kanpur
• IIT Kharagpur
• IIT Roorkee
• IIT Guwahati
• IIT Hyderabad
• IIT Tiruchirappalli
• IIT-BHU

JEE Mains 2025: IIT Madras top engineering college as per NIRF. (Image: Official)

As per JEE Main eligibility criteria, there is no age limit for the candidates to appear in the engineering entrance exam. Those who have passed Class 12 or equivalent exam in the last three years are eligible to apply.

The exam pattern of JEE Main 2025 paper 1 will be as follows:

The National Testing Agency (NTA) recently notified that the NTA official website for Joint Entrance Examination - Main (JEE Main) 2025 is jeemain.nta.nic.in. Candidates have been advised to look for JEE Main 2025 exam date, registration, application form, syllabus, eligibility, and other details on this website only.

Based on past years' trends, the Joint Entrance Examination - Main (JEE Main) 2025 will be conducted in two sessions -- session 1 and session 2. While session is expected to be held in January, session 2 will likely be organised in April.

In the latest update, NTA has scrapped the optional questions in section B of JEE Main 2025 question papers. The questions which were introduced in both paper 1 (BE, BTech) and paper 2 (BArch, BPlan) in the Covid pandemic will no longer be asked from candidates.

The Joint Entrance Examination - Main (JEE Main) is held for admission to undergraduate engineering and architecture programmes offered by IITs, NITs, IIITs, IISER, and other government and private institutions.

The National Testing Agency (NTA) will notify the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE Main) 2025 exam date on the following websites:

• nta.ac.in
• jeemain.nta.nic.in