NTA expected to release JEE Main 2020 Admit Card after April 15

NEW DELHI-Due to the coronavirus outbreak, the National Testing Agency (NTA) has postponed the release of JEE Main 2020 admit card for the April session. It was scheduled to be released on March 20. Now that the exam is scheduled to be held in the last week of May, the admit card of JEE Main 2020 is expected to be released after mid of April.

The postponement was announced by the minister for human resource development, Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ on Friday night.

The accompanying NTA notice posted by the minister, said that the admit card download dates would be announced after assessing the situation on April 15. While the notice specifies it for NEET, Pokhriyal’s tweet suggests that NTA will follow the same timeline for JEE Main as well. So engineering aspirants who have applied for JEE Main would have to check for the new dates after April 15 on the official website which is jeemain.nta.nic.in.

The following image is the notice released by NTA for NEET 2020. Candidate can expect JEE Main 2020 admit card to be available in the same timeline as suggested by MHRD.

JEE Main 2020 is a computer based test which will be conducted in 233 exam cities to provide admissions into NITs, IIITs and GFTIs.. It will be conducted in two Papers - Paper 1 (B.Tech) and Paper 2 (B.Arch & B.Plan). According to NTA, there were 9,21,261 registrations for Paper 1 and 1,38,409 for Paper 2 for JEE Main 2020 January session which was held from January 6 to 9.

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