JEE Advanced 2025 Eligibility Criteria has been restored. It can be checked online on the website. Eligibility Criteria has been released by IIT, Kanpur. Candidates must check the complete eligibility before filling the application form.
Curious whether eligible for JEE Advance 2025 or not?..Let’s check the eligibility norms below.
JEE Advanced 2025 Notifications – Eligibility Criteria Restored
JEE Advanced 2025 Eligibility Criteria has been restored by IIT, Kanpur. Now, the attempt limit has been changed to two attempts. Click here to view eligibility criteria.
Note: Candidates who dropped out between 5th to 18th November are eligible for JEE Advanced 2025.
JEE Advance is a national level entrance test organised by IITs under the supervision of the Joint Admission Board. IIT, Kanpur is the expected authority for conducting the exam.
This exam is conducted for providing admission to students in UG, PG and other courses in engineering, architecture, science or pharmaceutical offered by IITs and ISM.
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Students are suggested to check the eligibility criteria before applying for JEE Advanced 2025. Through this article, students can check detailed information about JEE Advanced Eligibility 2025. The eligibility cut off for the JEE Main 2025 qualified candidates are provided below:
Category | JEE Main 2025 Cutoff (Announced) | Students |
General – ALL | From 100 to 93.1023262 | 97,321 |
General – PWBD | From 93.0950208 to 0.0079349 | 3,950 |
EWS – ALL | From 93.0950208 to 80.3830119 | 25,009 |
OBC-ALL | From 93.0950208 to 79.4313582 | 67,614 |
ST – ALL | From 93.0950208 to 47.9026465 | 18,823 |
SC – ALL | From 93.0950208 to 61.1526933 | 37,519 |
JEE Advanced Eligibility 2025
Candidates always check the eligibility first before filling the JEE Advanced 2025 application form, as only eligible candidates will be allowed to sit in examination.
Nationality:
- Indian citizens and OCI & PIO candidates are eligible to apply.
Number of Attempts:
- Students are able to attempt the JEE Advanced exam for maximum two times in consecutive years.
Age Criteria:
- Age Limit: Students must be born on or after 1st October 2000 (for general candidates) and 1st October 1995 (for SC/ ST & PwD candidates).
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JEE Main 2025 Performance Eligibility:
- Candidates should be among the top 2,50,000 (including all categories) in Paper-1 of JEE (Main) 2025 to be eligible for JEE Advanced 2025.
- The percentages of various categories will be: 10% for GEN- EWS, 27% for OBC-NCL, 15% for SC, 7.5% for ST and the remaining 40.5% will be OPEN for all. Within each of these four categories, 5% horizontal seats will be reserved for PwD (including Dyslexic) applicants.
The authority has followed the following order for selecting top 2,50,000 candidates in various categories:
Note: The total number of candidates may be slightly greater than 2,50,000 in the presence of “tied” ranks/scores in any category.
Performance in Class 12th (or Equivalent):
- Candidates appearing in the 12th or equivalent exam in the year 2024 or 2025 for the first time in all subjects are also considered eligible to apply.
As per the new changes and relaxation introduced in eligibility of JEE Advanced, students will not be required to fulfill minimum eligibility marks of 75% (65% for ST/ SC) in 12th level to get admission in IIT. Students passing 12th level & JEE Main will be eligible for JEE Advanced.
- Candidates whose Class XII (or equivalent) examination results for the academic year 2024-25 declared after June 2025 will be eligible to appear in JEE (Advanced) 2025.
- The following 5 subjects will be considered:
(a) Physics
(b) Chemistry
(c) Mathematics
(d) A Language
(e) Any subject (other than four mentioned above).
Earlier Admission at IITs:
- Candidates those admitted in an IIT/ ISM in the past will not be eligible to appear for the JEE Advanced or candidates those accepted any seat in IIT/ISM by reporting at the reporting centre. Students whose admissions get cancelled at IITs or ISM will not be eligible to apply.
- Students those admitted first time in a preparatory course in any IITs in the year 2024 will be eligible to apply for JEE Advanced 2025.
- Those candidates who have paid the seat acceptance fee in 2024 but not accepted the seat will also be eligible to apply.
Examinations Considered As Equivalent to Class 12th
Checkout the list of examination that will be considered equal to class 12th examination for JEE Advanced 2025 from below:
- The final examination of the 10+2 system which will be conducted by a Central or State Board recognized by the Association of Indian Universities (AIU).
- Intermediate or two-year Pre-University examination which will be conducted by a Board or University recognised by the AIUs.
- Final examination of the 2 year course of the Joint Services Wing of the NDA.
- Higher Secondary School Examination conducted by National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) with a minimum of five subjects.
- Any Public School, Board or University examination in India or in a foreign country recognised as equivalent to the 10+2 system by the AIU. H.S.C. vocational examination
- 3-year diploma course recognised by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) or a State Board of Technical Education.
- General Certificate Education (GCE) examination (London, Cambridge or Sri Lanka) at the Advanced (A) level.
- HSC examination of Cambridge University or International Baccalaureate Diploma of the International Baccalaureate Office, Geneva.
- In case of candidates who have passed the qualifying examination from outside India or from a Board not mentioned above then, such candidates will be required to produce the certificate from the AIU subjecting that the examination they have passed should be equivalent to class 12th examination.
- If Class XII examination will not be a public examination, applicants must have qualified in at least one public (Board or Pre-University) examination earlier.
If you have any other queries regarding JEE Advanced Eligibility 2025, you may leave your queries below in the comment box.
Can I fill the form for jee mains as I’m appearing for cbse boards of 12th in 2025 and I have cleared maths till 11th class and left maths for biotech in 12th
Candidates who will be appearing 12th in 2025 will be eligible to apply only if they satisfy all the eligibility norms.
Sir i score 59.943 percentile in jee main 2024 from sc category. Am I eligible for jee advance Or not
To be eligible for JEE Advanced 2024, candidates must be among the top 2.5 lakh JEE Main qualified candidates.
In jee mains I got 68.5546128,belong SC Category,can i qualified for jee advanced..
or else.. I am elgible for NITs..
reply as soon as possible
Details regarding this will be known to you by the officials.
Sir,I got 44 percentage in jee mains session-2 AM I eligible for jee advance can I apply
It will depend on cut off marks and will be known to you by the officials.
Sir I got 78% in jee mains am I eligible to write jee advanced exam? I belong to ews category my crl rank is 2,43,599 and ews rank is 38488
Yes, you are eligible but you must also satisfy other eligibility norms.
Sir I got 78% in jee mains am I eligible to write jee advanced exam? Please reply fastly
Yes, you are eligible but you must also satisfy other eligibility norms.
I’ve passed my 12th board in 2022. Gave jee adv that year, didn’t qualify. If I don’t give jee adv this year(2023), then can i give the exam in 2024?
Details regarding JEE Advanced 2024 are not released yet.