JEE Advanced 2025 Eligibility Criteria (Out): 5 Key Facts Every Student Should Know Before Applying

JEE Advanced 2025

The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur has announced the eligibility criteria for JEE Advanced 2025, the prestigious entrance exam for admission to undergraduate engineering programs at IITs. Here's a breakdown of the five crucial points students must be aware of before applying:

Class 12 Examination: Appearing for the Class 12 (or equivalent) exam for the first time in 2023, 2024, or 2025 is essential. Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics must be compulsory subjects. Those who appeared for Class 12 exams before 2023 are not eligible.

Age Restriction: Candidates must be born on or after October 1, 2000. SC, ST, and PwD candidates enjoy a five-year relaxation, making them eligible if born on or after October 1, 1995.

Attempt Limit: As per the official website (jeeadv.ac.in), a candidate can take JEE Advanced a maximum of three times in consecutive years.

Cracking JEE Main 2025: Securing a spot among the top 2,50,000 successful candidates (including all categories) in the BE/BTech paper (Paper 1) of JEE Main 2025 is mandatory. This quota includes a category-wise distribution, with 10% for General-EWS, 27% for OBC-NCL, 15% for SC, 7.5% for ST, and the remaining 40.5% open for all categories. Additionally, each category will have a 5% horizontal reservation for PwD candidates.

Prior IIT Admissions: Candidates who have secured admission to any IIT program under the JoSAA rules of 2024 or earlier, or whose admission was cancelled after joining, cannot appear for JEE Advanced 2025. However, those admitted to a preparatory course in IITs for the first time in 2024 are eligible. Similarly, candidates allocated a seat in an IIT through JoSAA but did not report online, withdrew, or had their seat canceled before the final round can still apply.

For further details, including eligibility for foreign nationals, visit the official website.