Eligibility for JEE

Eligibility Criteria for JEE

Candidates of GE and OBC categories must have been completed 17 years at the time of admission and is an Indian National.

The upper age limit for JEE (Advanced) is 25 years for GE and OBC categories and this upper age limit shall be relaxed by a period of 5 years for SC, ST and PD categories.

In addition to JEE score, the qualifying examination will be Class-XII from any National/State or ‘Approved’ International Board.

a.       For NITs, IIITs or CFTIs, normalized marks of XII board will be considered and eligibility to be same as earlier, which is minimum 60% marks in PCM in XII.

b.      For IITs, the student must be in Top 20 percentile of their Class-XII boards.

c.       Marks of 5 subjects will be considered: Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, 1Language, 5^th Optional subject like ED, Comp Sc etc.Those appearing in 10+2 final or equivalent examination may also appear in JEE (Main) in the following year provisionally.

However, admission criteria in the concerned Institution / University will be followed as prescribed by the

concerned University/ Institution and as per the guidelines & criteria prescribed by the AICTE.

The aspirants for NITs, IIITs, CFTIs, IITs and ISM, Dhanbad must ensure their eligibility for admission into

NITs, IIITs, CFTIs, IITs and ISM, Dhanbad.

For further details of the eligibility criteria for the admission into IITs and ISM, Dhanbad, please refer JEE

(Advanced) website.

Maximum number of attempts a candidate can avail at JEE (Main) shall be 03 (three) and for JEE (Advanced)

twice in uniformly in consecutive years.

State Code of Eligibility

It means the Code of the State from where a candidate has passed (+2) examination by virtue of which he/she becomes eligible to appear in the JEE (Main) for admission to B.E/ B.Tech and B.Arch/ B. Planning Courses of the institutions/ Colleges of the States/UT. The list of state code of eligibility is given on JEE (Main) website www.jeemain-edu.in.