The official notification for JEE Advanced 2025 will be released by IIT Kanpur. The JEE Advanced 2025 Exam will be conducted in May 2025.
Important Update:
Joint Admission Board (JAB) reversed its decision of allowing 3 attempts in JEE Advanced(Only Two Attempts Allow)
The Joint Admission Board (JAB) has decided to restore the earlier eligibility criterion used in previous years pertaining to number of attempts in JEE (Advanced), in supersession of the criterion mentioned in Press Release dated November 05, 2024. This has been done after considering various
competing requirements in the meeting of JAB held on November 15, 2024. This has resulted in restoring the earlier eligibility criteria followed since 2013. All other eligibility criteria remain same. For further details please refer to the website (idioms website) https://jeeadv.ac.in
JEE Advanced 2025: The Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur is the organizing body for JEE Advanced 2025. The official website for JEE Advanced 2025, jeeadv.ac.in, has been launched, where candidates can find the eligibility criteria and syllabus for the exam. The syllabus remains unchanged from the previous year. The JEE Advanced 2025 exam is expected to take (take with a grain of salt idiom synonym) place in May 2025, and the JEE Main 2025 application form to be released in April 2025. Additional details, including the exact exam date, will be announced soon.
Indian candidates who meet the JEE Main 2025 cutoff will be eligible to register for JEE Advanced 2025. A total of the top 2.5 lakh candidates from JEE Main 2025 will be allowed to participate in JEE Advanced. Foreign nationals, however, do not need to qualify JEE Main and can directly register for the exam. Regardless of nationality, all candidates must have passed their Class 12 board exams in 2024 or 2025 to be eligible for JEE Advanced 2025. The exam will be conducted in CBT mode at centers both in India and abroad. JEE Advanced is the second stage in the IIT admission process, with JEE Main being the first. The exam consists of two papers, each divided into three sections: Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics. Candidates are advised to refer to the JEE Advanced 2025 syllabus and review JEE Advanced previous years’ question papers for effective preparation.
To be eligible for admission to the IITs, candidates must appear for both Paper 1 and Paper 2 of the JEE Advanced exam. The JEE Advanced marking scheme, JEE Advanced total marks, and question distribution for JEE Advanced vary each year. Candidates can find detailed information about the exam, including important dates, JEE Advanced 2025 registration, eligibility criteria, preparation tips, recommended books, exam pattern, syllabus, and the admission process below on this page.
The JEE Advanced 2025 Exam will be conducted in May 2025. However, not every JEE aspirant will be eligible to appear for the JEE Advanced exam. Only the top 2,50,000 rankers in the JEE Main 2025 exam can apply for the Advanced stage.
What’s New in JEE Advanced 2025?
IIT Kanpur has announced a significant change for JEE Advanced 2025:
- Eligibility Criteria: To be eligible for JEE Advanced 2025, candidates must have appeared for the Class 12 (or equivalent) examination for the first time (race against time phrase meaning) in 2024, or 2025, with Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics as mandatory subjects.
- Class 12 Passing Year: Candidates who passed Class 12 in 2024, or 2025 are eligible to appear for JEE Advanced 2025. However, candidates who appeared for the Class 12 (or equivalent) examination for the first time in 2023 or earlier are not eligible to appear for JEE Advanced 2025, regardless of the subjects they attempted or were offered.
JEE Advanced 2025 Exam Overview
It is essential for students applying for the JEE Advanced 2025 exam to have general information related to the exam. Candidates can refer to the below details to get a quick idea about it. Also, candidates should visit (idioms dictionary) the official website of the JEE Advanced to fill in the form.
| Particulars | Details |
| JEE Advanced 2025 Exam Conducted By | IIT Kanpur |
| Official Website | https://jeeadv.ac.in/ |
| Exam Mode | Computer-Based Test |
| Counselling Authority | JoSAA |
| Frequency | Once a year |
| Exam Duration | 3 hours for each paper |
| Eligible Candidates | Top 2.5 lakh rankers in the JEE Main 2025 exam |
| Age Criteria | Lower Age Limit: Born on/after October 1st, 2000
Upper Age Limit: Not Fixed |
| Educational Qualification | 12 or equivalent exam appearing or passed from a recognized Board |
| Subjects | Physics, Chemistry & Maths |
| Number of Papers | 2 |
| Date of JEE Advanced 2025 Exam | May 2025 |
| Exam Schedule | Paper 1- 09:00 am to 12:00 pm
Paper 2- 2:30 pm to 5:30 pm |
JEE Advanced 2025 Important Exam Dates
The JEE Advanced 2025 registration portal will be open from April 2025 for Indian nationals. Although students can pay the application form fee till 30th April 2025. The other dates JEE Advanced 2025 dates are as follows:
| S. No. | Activity | Day, Date and Time (IST) (Tentative) |
| 1 | JEE Advanced 2025 registrations for Indian Nationals | 21st April to 30th April 2025 |
| 2 | Last date for fee payment of registered candidates | 6th May 2025 |
| 3 | JEE Advanced 2025 Admit card available for download | 17 May – 26 May 2025 |
| 4 | JEE Advanced 2025 Choosing of scribe for PwD candidates | 25th May 2025 |
| 5 | JEE Advanced 2025 Exam | Sunday, May 26, 2025 Paper 1: 09:00-12:00 IST Paper 2: 14:30-17:30 IST |
| 6 | JEE Advanced 2025 response sheet release date | 31st May 2025 |
| 7 | JEE Advanced 2025 Online display of provisional answer keys | 2nd June 2025 |
| 8 | Feedback and comments on provisional answer keys from the candidates | 2nd June to 3rd June 2025 |
| 9 | JEE Advanced 2025 Online declaration of final answer keys | 9th June 2025 |
| 10 | Result of JEE Advanced 2025 | 9th June 2025 |
| 11 | Online registration for Architecture Aptitude Test (AAT) 2025 | 9th to 10th June 2025 |
| 12 | Tentative beginning of Joint Seat Allocation (JoSAA) 2025 process | 10th June 2025 |
| 13 | Architecture Aptitude Test (AAT) 2025 | 12th June 2025 |
| 14 | Declaration of results of AAT 2025 | 15th June 2025 |
JEE Advanced 2025 Eligibility Criteria New (Revised)
There are 5 criteria that candidates applying for the JEE Advanced must fulfill. It is to be noted that all 5 criteria must be satisfied:
Criterion A1 – 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.
The following table shows the order to be followed while choosing the top 2,50,000 candidates in various categories based on the performance in B.E./B.Tech. paper of JEE (Main) 2025.
Category-wise distribution of top 2,50,000* candidates (Criterion A1)
| Sl No. | Category | Number of “Top” candidates | |
| 1 | OPEN | 96187 | 101250 |
| 2 | OPEN-PwD | 5063 | |
| 3 | GEN-EWS | 23750 | 25000 |
| 4 | GEN-EWS-PwD | 1250 | |
| 5 | OBC-NCL | 64125 | 67500 |
| 6 | OBC-NCL-PwD | 3375 | |
| 7 | SC | 35625 | 37500 |
| 8 | SC-PwD | 1875 | |
| 9 | ST | 17812 | 18750 |
| 10 | ST-PwD | 938 | |
Criterion A2 – Age Limit
Candidates should have been born on or after October 1, 2000. Five years of 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 A3 – Number of attempts
A candidate can attempt JEE (Advanced) a maximum of two times in two consecutive years.
Criterion A4 – 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.
* By appearance in the Class XII (or equivalent) examination, it is meant that the Board concerned declared the result for that year irrespective of whether or not the examination was conducted. It will be considered as an appearance even if the result of a particular candidate got withheld.
However, if the examination Board of Class XII (or equivalent) declared the results for the academic year 2022-23 on or after September 21, 2023, then the candidates of that Board who appeared for their Class XII (or equivalent) examination in 2023 are also eligible to appear in JEE (Advanced) 2025, provided they meet all the other eligibility criteria. In case the examination Board of Class XII (or equivalent) declared the results for the academic year 2023-23 before September 21, 2023 but the result of a particular candidate was withheld for whatever reason, then the candidate will not be eligible to appear in JEE (Advanced) 2025.
Criterion A5 – Earlier admission at 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 centre” 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.
Candidates who have been admitted to a preparatory course in any of the IITs for the first time in 2024 can appear in JEE (Advanced) 2025.
The candidates who were allocated a seat in an IIT through JoSAA but did not report “online” OR, (ii) withdrew before the last round of seat allotment, OR, (iii) had their seat cancelled (for whatever reason) before the last round of seat allotment for IITs, are eligible to appear for JEE (Advanced) 2025.
However, in all of the above cases, the candidate is also required to fulfil the conditions mentioned from Criterion A1 to Criterion A4.
- Must be among the top 2.5 lakh rankers in the JEE Main 2025.
- Candidates should be born after or on October 1, 2000.
- An individual can appear a maximum of two times in two consecutive years.
- 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.
- Students who already have accepted an IIT seat are not allowed to attempt it again.
JEE Advanced 2025 Application Form
Candidates will only be able to fill out the JEE Advanced 2025 Application Form online mode. Candidates can follow the following steps for the JEE Advanced 2025 registration and other application processes:
1. To register for JEE (Advanced) 2025, one has to visit the official website of JEE Advanced. Click on: https://jeeadv.ac.in/.
2. Click on the login portal.
3. Provide your JEE Main 2025 roll number, password and security pin.
4. Click on Submit and enter a new password for the JEE Advanced 2025.
5. A page will be displayed on the screen consisting of the details filled in by students during JEE Main 2025.
6. Once you register for JEE (Advanced) 2025, the next step includes uploading the documents; these are:
- Birth Certificate
- Class 12th or equivalent marksheet
- Category/PwD/Scribe letter/PIO/DS (if applicable)
7. After uploading the above-mentioned documents, pay the JEE Advanced 2025 application fees both online and offline mode.
- Female Candidate (All Category)- 1400 INR
- PwD candidates/SC/ST- 1400 INR
- Other Candidates- 2800 INR
8. Take out the print-out of the confirmation page.
JEE Advanced 2025 Exam Pattern
Candidates must be acquainted with the paper pattern and marking scheme before they appear for the final exam. However, the conducting body has not released any notifications regarding the paper pattern of JEE Advanced 2025. There are a few points that have been concluded from seeing previous years’ exam patterns.
- It will be an online paper.
- There will be two papers each for three hours.
- Questions will be majorly composed according to the syllabus prescribed in Class 11th & 12th in Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics.
- The paper will be drafted in English and Hindi medium.
- Paper 1 will be designed to have single-option correct MCQs, single or more correct option questions, and numerical value-based questions. There will be negative marks in multiple choice-based questions.
- In Paper 2, applicants have to solve MCQs having one or more correct options, numerical-based questions and single-digit integer answer questions. Marks will be deducted in MCQ and single digital integer answer-type questions if the response is wrong.
Make sure you prepare according to the JEE Advanced 2025 syllabus to secure your seat in your desired engineering college.
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