JEE Advanced 2017: Eligibility Criteria

Dear Aspirants,

JEE (Advanced) 2017 examination will be held on Sunday, 21 May 2017, as IIT Madras has declared the final dates for the examination. This year JEE Advanced will be conducted by IIT Madras and they have also launched the official website for the session 2017.

As per members, IIT Madras has also launched Previous year JEE Advanced papers for 2017 JEE Aspirants which will help them in order to prepare the best.

Here is the  the Eligibility Criteria for JEE Advanced 2017:-

 

1) Based on JEE Main performance-

Candidates who will be qualifying JEE Main should be among the top 2,20,000 (including all categories) by scoring positive marks in Paper-1 of JEE (Main) 2017.

The percentages required for various categories are:

• 27% for OBC-NCL, 15% for SC, 7.5% for ST and the remaining 50.5% is OPEN for all.
• Within each of these four categories, 3% horizontal reservation is available for PwD (including Dyslexic) candidates.

As shown in the following table, the usual order will be followed while choosing top 2,20,000 candidates in various categories who have scored positive marks in JEE (Main) 2017.

2)AGE LIMIT 

Candidates should have been born on or after October 1, 1992. Five years relaxation is given to SC, ST and PwD candidates, i.e., these candidates should have been born on or after October 1, 1987

3)TOTAL NUMBER OF ATTEMPTS:–

A candidate can attempt JEE (Advanced) a maximum of two times in consecutive years. Therefore, candidates who appeared in JEE (Advanced) 2016 for the first time are also eligible.

4)CLASS 12TH BASED CRITERIA:-

A candidate should have appeared for the Class XII (or equivalent) examination for the first time in either 2016 or 2017.
However, candidates whose Class XII (or equivalent) examination results for the academic year 2014-15 were declared after June 2015 are eligible to appear in JEE (Advanced) 2017

5)PREVIOUS YEARS ANALYSIS FOR IITs:-

A candidate should NOT have been admitted in an IIT irrespective of whether or not he/she continued in the program) OR accepted the IIT seat by reporting at a reporting centre in the past. The candidates whose admission at IITs was cancelled are also NOT eligible to appear in JEE (Advanced) 2017.
Candidates who have been admitted to a preparatory course in any of the IITs for the first time in 2016 can appear in JEE (Advanced) 2017. The candidates who have paid seat acceptance fee but not accepted the seat (by not reporting at any reporting centre during joint seat allocation in 2016) are eligible to appear in JEE (Advanced) 2017.

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All the best