JEE Advanced Eligibility Criteria 2025 | JEE Advanced Eligibility 2025 | JEE Advanced 3rd Attempt Removed

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024

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JEE Advanced Eligibility Criteria 2025 for Indian Nationals and OCI/PIO candidates who have secured OCI/PIO Card before 04.03.2021 for appearing for JEE (Advanced) 2025. The Board has revised the eligibility criteria for the Joint Entrance to 2 attempts. Details Below

Criterion I for JEE Advanced 2025 Eligibility:
Performance in JEE (Main) 2025

• Candidates should be among the top 2,50,000 successful candidates (including all categories) in B.E./B.Tech. paper (Paper I) of JEE (Main) 2025.

• The percentages of various categories of candidates to be shortlisted are as follows: 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 available for PwD candidates.

Criterion II for JEE Advanced 2025 Eligibility :
Age Limit

• Candidates should have been born on or after October 1, 2000. Five years age relaxation is given to SC, ST, and PwD candidates, i.e. these candidates should have been born on or after October 1, 1995.

Criterion III for JEE Advanced 2025 Eligibility:
Number of Attempts

• A candidate can attempt JEE (Advanced) maximum of two times in two consecutive years.

Criterion IV for JEE Advanced 2025 Eligibility :
Appearance in Class XII (or Equivalent) Examination

• A candidate should have appeared for the Class XII (or equivalent) examination for the first time in either 2024 or 2025 with Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics as compulsory subjects.
• Candidates who had appeared in Class XII (or equivalent) examination for the first time in 2023 or earlier, are NOT eligible to appear in JEE (Advanced) 2025, irrespective of the combination or number of subjects attempted/offered.

Criterion V for JEE Advanced 2025 Eligibility :
Earlier admission in IITs

• A candidate should NOT have been admitted to an IIT under any academic program that is listed in JoSAA Business Rules of 2024, irrespective of whether or not the candidate continued in the program OR accepted an IIT seat by reporting “online” / at a “reporting center” in the past. Candidates whose admission to IITs was cancelled (for whatever reason) after joining any IIT are also NOT eligible to appear for JEE (Advanced) 2025.