Now IIT aspirants can breathe easy as JEE Advanced attempts increased to three

Starting 2025, IITs aspirants are allowed to sit for the JEE Advanced for a maximum of three times in three consecutive years. Until this year, the number of attempts was restricted to twice in the two consecutive years.

Hyderabad: Students aspiring for admissions to the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) have a reason to cheer as the number of attempts for Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Advanced, have been enhanced.

Starting 2025, IITs aspirants are allowed to sit for the JEE Advanced for a maximum of three times in three consecutive years. Until this year, the number of attempts was restricted to twice in the two consecutive years.

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The new eligibility criteria for the JEE Advanced 2025 has been notified by the IIT Kanpur, which is organising the entrance examination. As for the age limit, candidates appearing for the JEE Advanced 2025 should have been born on or before October 1, 2000. However, five years’ age relaxation has been extended to SC, ST and PwD categories, who should have been born on or after October 1,1995.

The other eligibility criterions, including candidates selection, for the JEE Advanced remained the same. In a press release, the IIT-Kanpur said candidates should be among the top 2.50 lakh successful candidates, including all categories, in the BE/BTech paper of the JEE Main 2025 to be eligible for the JEE Advanced. However, the total number of candidates may be slightly more than 2.50 lakh in the presence of “tied” ranks / scores in any category.

The percentages of various categories of candidates to be shortlisted are – 10 per cent for GEN-EWS, 27 per cent for OBC-NCL, 15 per cent for SC, 7.5 per cent for ST, and the remaining 40.5 per cent is open for all. Within each of these five categories, five per cent horizontal reservation is available for PwD candidates.

A candidate should have appeared for the Class XII or equivalent examination for the first time in either 2023 or 2024 or 2025 with Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics as compulsory subjects to be eligible to sit for the JEE Advanced 2025.

Further to be eligible for the JEE Advanced 2025, a candidate should not have been admitted to an IIT under any academic program listed in JoSAA business rules 2024 or earlier, irrespective of whether or not candidate continued in the program or accepted an IIT seat by reporting online / at a reporting centre in the past.