What to expect at JEE Main exam centre 2025? Frisking rules, documents required

NEW DELHI: Before appearing for the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Main 2025 exam tomorrow, candidates are advised to check the instructions issued by the National Testing Agency (NTA) regarding the examination centre.

JEE Mains 2025 session 1 paper 1 will be held tomorrow, January 22, for admission to BTech programmes offered by the National Institutes of Technology (NITs) and other institutes.

Reducing the number of JEE Main 2025 exam cities, the NTA informed that JEE 2025 will be conducted in 284 examination cities this year.

Candidates can check their JEE Main exam centre 2025 on their JEE Main admit card 2025 which is available on the official website, jeemain.nta.nic.in.

This year, NTA has introduced a non-Aadhaar declaration form for candidates who have not applied for the exam through their Aadhaar card, asking them to explain a mismatch between their face and image uploaded during the JEE Main registration 2025.

What to expect at JEE Main exam centre 2025?

Know JEE Main exam centre rules before turning up for the exam:

• Candidates are advised to verify the location of their exam centre a day before the exam to avoid problems on the exam day.
• If religion or customs require you to wear specific attire, please visit the centre early for thorough checking and mandatory frisking.
• No candidate would be allowed to enter the examination centre, without an admit card and undertaking, valid ID proof, and proper frisking.
• All the examination centres are under surveillance of CCTV and equipped with jammers.
• Candidates will be permitted to carry a personal transparent water bottle, a simple transparent ball-point pen, admit card, additional passport-size photograph, original valid ID proof.
• Before reaching the centre, candidates must enter the required details in the self-declaration (undertaking) in legible handwriting, paste the photograph, and put a thumb impression at the appropriate place on the admit card. They should ensure that their left-hand thumb impression is clear and not smudged.
• Candidates are not allowed to carry any other personal belongings, including electronic devices, or mobile phones to the exam centre. Examination officials will not be responsible for the safekeeping of personal belongings and there will be no facility.
• If a candidate goes for bio-break or toilet, they should undergo the mandatory frisking and biometrics again. Apart from the biometric attendance and frisking at entry, candidates will be frisked and biometric attendance will be taken again on entry from bio-break or toilet breaks.