2 Attempts Criteria Restored For JEE Advanced 2025
The Joint Admission Board (JAB) has restored the eligibility criteria related to the number of attempts in JEE Advanced 2025. Earlier in a notification released on November 5, 2024, the admission board announced that candidates can appear for the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) thrice, however now taking a U-turn board has said that the attempts criteria have been restored to the original. Now a candidate can attempt JEE Advanced a maximum of two times in two consecutive years.
“The Joint Admission Board (JAB) has decided to restore the earlier eligibility criterion used in previous years pertaining to 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 same. For further details please refer to the website https://jeeadv.ac.in/”
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Now, following the recent announcement, candidates who appeared for JEE Advanced 2024 will be eligible to sit for the JEE Advanced 2025. Those who appeared for the JEE Advanced 2023 will not be able to sit for the exam.
Notably, only those candidates who secure top 2,50,000 ranks become successful to qualify for the B.E/B.Tech paper (Paper 1) of JEE (Main) 2025. The percentages of various categories of candidates to be shortlisted include – 10% for GEN-EWS, 27% for OBC-NCL, 15% for SC, 7.5% for ST, and the remaining 40.5% is OPEN for all. Within each of these five categories (5% horizontal reservation) is reserved for PwD candidates.
