JEE Advanced 2025: The Joint Admission Board (JAB) has announced to restore the previous Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Advanced 2025 eligibility criteria and reduced the number of attempts to two.
The board earlier increased the number of attempts to three.
However, the JEE Advanced 3rd attempt has been dropped now.
A month after increasing the number of attempts for the Joint Entrance Examination Advanced (JEE Advanced) from two to three this year, the Joint Admission Board (JAB) has decided to restore the earlier eligibility criterion used in previous years about a number of attempts in JEE Advanced.
JEE Advanced 2025: Eligibility criteria
The candidates should have been born on or after October 1, 2000. A relaxation of five years has been provided to Scheduled Caste (SC), Scheduled Tribe (ST), and Persons with Disabilities (PwD) candidates. Thus, these candidates should have been born on or after October 1, 1995.
Candidates whose admission to IITs was canceled (for whatever reason) after joining any IIT are also not eligible to appear for JEE Advanced 2025.
Candidates who have been admitted to a preparatory course in any of the IITs for the first time in 2024 can appear in JEE Advanced 2025.
According to the official notice, “The Joint Admission Board (JAB) has decided to restore the earlier eligibility criterion used in previous years about the number of attempts in JEE (Advanced), in supersession of the criterion mentioned in Press Release dated November 05, 2024."
"This has been done after considering various competing requirements in the meeting of JAB held on November 15, 2024. This has resulted in restoring the earlier eligibility criteria followed since 2013. All other eligibility criteria remain the same.”
A month after increasing the number of attempts for the Joint Entrance Examination Advanced (JEE Advanced) from two to three this year, the Joint Admission Board (JAB) has decided to restore the earlier eligibility criterion used in previous years about a number of attempts in JEE Advanced.
JEE Advanced 2025: Eligibility criteria
The candidates should have been born on or after October 1, 2000. A relaxation of five years has been provided to Scheduled Caste (SC), Scheduled Tribe (ST), and Persons with Disabilities (PwD) candidates. Thus, these candidates should have been born on or after October 1, 1995.
Candidates whose admission to IITs was canceled (for whatever reason) after joining any IIT are also not eligible to appear for JEE Advanced 2025.
Candidates who have been admitted to a preparatory course in any of the IITs for the first time in 2024 can appear in JEE Advanced 2025.
According to the official notice, “The Joint Admission Board (JAB) has decided to restore the earlier eligibility criterion used in previous years about the number of attempts in JEE (Advanced), in supersession of the criterion mentioned in Press Release dated November 05, 2024."
"This has been done after considering various competing requirements in the meeting of JAB held on November 15, 2024. This has resulted in restoring the earlier eligibility criteria followed since 2013. All other eligibility criteria remain the same.”
JEE Advanced 2025: Important details
- Candidates born on or after October 1, 2000, will be eligible to apply. Five years’ age relaxation is given to SC, ST, and PwD candidates, who should have been born on or after October 1, 1995. The rest of the eligibility criteria for JEE Advanced 2025 remain the same.
- Candidates who have been admitted to a preparatory course in any of the IITs for the first time in 2024 can appear in JEE Advanced 2025.
- Candidates whose admission to IITs was canceled (for whatever reason) after joining any IIT are also not eligible to appear for JEE Advanced 2025.
- Candidates whose admission to IITs was canceled (for whatever reason) after joining any IIT are also not eligible to appear for JEE Advanced 2025.
