Number of attempts for JEE Advanced 2025 increased to 3

The number of attempts for the Joint Entrance Examination, Advanced has been increased from two to three from this year. As per the new guidelines, a candidate can attempt JEE Advanced a maximum of three times in three consecutive years.

Earlier, the number of attempts were limited to twice in two consecutive years.

For the 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.

JEE Main 2025 eligibility

The other eligibility for JEE Main remains the same. Candidates should be among the top 2,50,000 successful candidates (including all categories) in BE/BTech 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.

As per the decision dated February 03, 2023 passed by the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India in Writ Petition (Civil) 891 / 2021, the OCI/PIO candidates who have secured OCI/PIO card before 04.03.2021 shall be considered as Indian nationals for the purpose of seat allocation to IITs. However, these candidates are not eligible for benefits of any kind of reservation (e.g., GEN-EWS, OBC-NCL, SC, ST) with the exception of OPEN-PwD. That is, Sl No. (3) to (10) in the above table are not applicable for such OCI/PIO card holders and these candidates are required to be in the rank list in Sl. No. 1 and / or 2 in the above table.

Class 12 eligibility

A candidate should have appeared for the class 12 (or equivalent) examination for the first time in either 2023 or 2024 or 2025 with Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics as compulsory subjects.

Candidates who had appeared in class 12 (or equivalent) examination for the first time in 2022 or earlier, are not eligible to appear in JEE Advanced 2025, irrespective of the combination or number of subjects attempted/offered.

However, if the examination board of class 12 (or equivalent) declared the results for the academic year 2021-22 on or after September 21, 2022, then the candidates of that Board who appeared for their class 12 (or equivalent) examination in 2022 are also eligible to appear in JEE Advanced 2025, provided they meet all the other eligibility criteria.