Eligibility for JEE (Main) & JEE (Advanced)-2013

ELIGIBILITY FOR APPEARING IN JEE (Main) – 2013

Date of Birth

Only those candidates whose date of birth falls on or after October 01, 1988 are eligible. However, in the case of Scheduled Caste (SC), Scheduled Tribe (ST) and Persons with Disabilities (PwD) candidates, upper age limit is relaxed by 5 years, i.e. SC, ST and PwD candidates who were born on or after October 01, 1983 are eligible. Date of birth as recorded in the Secondary Education Board/University certificate will only be considered.

Year of Passing Qualifying Examination (QE)

Only those candidates who have passed their Class 12th Exam or any other qualifying examination in 2011 or 2012; or those who are appearing in their Class 12th Exam or any other qualifying examination in 2013 are eligible to appear in JEE (Main) - 2013.

Candidates who passed Class 12th/Qualifying examination in 2010 or before as well as those who will appear in such examination in 2014 or later are not eligible to appear in JEE (Main)-2013. Candidates who appeared in class 12th/other Qualifying Examinations in 2010, did not pass in 2010, but passed in 2011 are also not eligible to appear in JEE (Main) 2013.

Candidates must have taken at least five subjects in class 12th/any other Qualifying examination in order to be eligible for writing JEE (Main). In the year 2013 however, the candidates who have taken four subjects are also permitted to write JEE 2013 as an exception.

Number of Attempts

The number of attempts which a candidate can avail at JEE (Main) shall be limited to 03 (three).

CANDIDATES ARE ALSO ADVISED TO NOTE THE ELIGIBILITY FOR APPEARING IN JEE (ADVANCED) – 2013 AS WELL AS ELIGIBILITY FOR ADMISSION TO VARIOUS INSTITUTES. BY BEING ELIGIBLE TO WRITE JEE (Main) AND BY OBTAINING AN ALL INDIA RANK IN JEE (Main), A CANDIDATE DOES NOT AUTOMATICALLY BECOME ELIGIBLE FOR ADMISSION.

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA FOR APPEARING IN JEE (Advanced) – 2013

The minimum academic qualification for appearing in JEE (Advanced) - 2013 is that the candidate must have passed in final examination of Class 12th or other qualifying examination. Those appearing in these examinations in 2013 can also appear in JEE (Advanced) - 2013 provisionally.

All the candidates aspiring to take admission in the undergraduate programmes at IITs and ISM Dhanbad for the year 2013 will have to appear in the JEE (Main)-2013 (Paper 1). About 150000 top candidates based on the performance of JEE (Main)-2013 (Paper 1) (including all categories) will be eligible to appear in JEE (Advanced)-2013.

Admissions to IITs/ISM Dhanbad will be based only on category-wise All India Rank (AIR) in JEE (Advanced), subject to conditions as defined in JEE (Advanced) – 2013 website.

A candidate can attempt JEE (Advanced) a maximum of two times in consecutive years irrespective of whether or not he/she passed the Qualifying Examination. Those who have attempted JEE in 2011 or earlier are NOT ELIGIBLE to appear in JEE (Advanced) - 2013.