JEE Advanced 2025 Supreme Court Verdict Out on Attempt Limits

JEE Advanced 2025 Supreme Court Verdict Out on Attempt Limits

Samridhi MishraUpdated on 18 May 2025, 11:20 AM IST

JEE Advanced 2025 Attempt Limit Supreme Court hearing - The Supreme Court has announced its verdict on the plea regarding the attempt limit in JEE Advanced 2025 exam. A bench of Justices B R Gavai and Augustine George Masih decided that students who dropped out between November 5 and November 18, 2024 are eligible for the third attempt in JEE Advanced 2025. For all others, the JEE Advanced 2025 attempt limit remains unchanged. The JEE Advanced exam has been under scrutiny this year for its attempt limits. On November 5, the Joint Admission Board (JAB) announced the revised JEE Advanced eligibility criteria. Under this, students were allowed to appear for the JEE Advanced 2025 exam three times in three consecutive years. This came as a relief to many students since the JEE Mains exam also has a similar attempt limit criterion. However, on November 18, the authority retracted this decision and announced two limits only. This caused an uproar among the students who had made decisions based on the previous announcement.

JEE Advanced 2025 Supreme Court Verdict Out on Attempt Limits
JEE Advanced 2025 Attempt Limit Supreme Court hearing

Soon after the initial notification on November 5, many IIT JEE aspirants withdrew their admissions to give another chance to the JEE Advanced exam. This decision has affected the academic plans of many students. In this regard, a group of 22 students have challenged the JAB’s decision to reduce the number of attempts and demand the restoration of the old notification. Check all the latest updates for the JEE Advanced 2025 attempt limit case in the Supreme Court here.

What is the JEE Advanced 2025 Attempt Limit?

As per the JEE Advanced 2025 eligibility criteria, there is a certain attempt limit while appearing for the JEE Advanced exam. Candidates can appear for the JEE Advanced exam twice in two consecutive years. However, this year, JAB updated this criterion to three times in three consecutive years. Later on, the Joint Admission Board retracted this decision and restored the two-attempt limit in two consecutive years.

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JEE Advanced 2025 Attempt Limit Supreme Court Hearing Timeline

January 10, 2025: A bench of Justices B R Gavai and Augustine George Masih has announced the verdict on IIT JEE attempt limit case. Students who dropped out of college between November 5 and November 18, 2025 are eligible for the additional attempt. The Supreme Court has relieved many students and parents by allowing a third attempt for the JEE Advanced 2025 exam for those who made drastic changes to their academic plans such as dropping out. However, the Supreme Court has decided not to intervene with the Joint Admission Board's decisions regarding the reduction in the attempt limit in JEE Advanced 2025 for other candidates.

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January 8, 2025: Students and parents remain unheard, the SC yet again defers the matter until next hearing, i.e., January 10. This hearing is extremely crucial for students who changed their academic plans due to the JAB notification on November 5 stating the revised eligibility criteria pertaining to the attempt limit in JEE Advanced 2025. With many students dropping out of colleges and enrolling into coaching classes by paying a hefty amount, all to give another attempt for admission to the prestigious IITs.

January 7, 2025: The wait of the 22 petitioners and other JEE aspirants continues as the matter gets a new hearing date, January 8. The Supreme Court could not hear the JEE Advanced 2025 attempt limit plea due to other priority cases.

January 6, 2025: Owing to the unavailability of Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, who was occupied with another case, the matter gets a new hearing date, January 7. The JEE Advanced 2025 attempt limit case has been marked as 'High Up on the Board/Top of the Board' to be addressed on an urgent basis by the presiding judges.

December 20, 2024: The JEE Advanced 2025 attempt limit case hearing before a bench of Justices BR Gavai and KV Viswanathan. The hearing is postponed to January 6, 2025.

Following this decision, a group of 22 students took the matter to the Supreme Court demanding to nullify the JAB’s notice dated November 18 which restored the number of attempts in JEE Advanced to the initial two limits. The initial hearing for the JEE Advanced 2025 attempt limit case in the Supreme Court was set for December 20, 2024.

November 18, 2024: JAB published another press release restoring the earlier eligibility criterion concerning the number of attempts in JEE Advanced. The authority states that the decision of restoration on the old limit was made after due consideration of various competing requirements.

November 5, 2024: The Joint Admission Board (JAB) releases a press release announcing the revised JEE Advanced eligibility criteria. As per the notification, a candidate can attempt the JEE Advanced for a maximum of three times in three consecutive years.

Careers360 will keep updating all the latest news around the JEE Advanced 2025 attempt limit case here.

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Yes, JEE Advanced paper is also available in Hindi medium. When you fill the form, you will get the option to choose your language preference like English, Hindi or other regional languages allowed by NTA. If you choose Hindi, then in the exam hall you will get the paper in Hindi medium.

Website: https://jeeadv.ac.in

You can easily download IIT JEE 2025 papers in Hindi. For JEE Main, websites like Careers360 give shift-wise question papers with answers in Hindi. For JEE Advanced, you can get both Paper 1 and 2 in Hindi from the official site jeeadv.ac.in (https://jeeadv.ac.in/)

Hello Alka

For JEE Advance, the best 5 subjects through which you need to calculate your percentage is:

1. Physics
2. Chemistry
3. Mathematics
4. One language (which is English)
5. One other subject of your choice

So you will need to choose PCM + English + a 5th subject to calculate your percentage.

Hope this answer helps! Thank You!!!

Hello!

In JEE Advanced eligibility, the top 5 subjects from your board exam are considered. Usually, they are Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, and any two other subjects from the main curriculum. If CMS is your optional subject and IT is an additional subject, the board will still calculate based on the 5 highest marks from your eligible subjects. Additional subjects are considered only if they replace a lower score from another subject. For example, if IT has a higher score than English or CMS, then IT can be counted. However, some boards follow strict rules where only main subjects are counted, so you must verify with your board’s official notification. The 75% criteria means your average percentage in those best 5 subjects must meet the requirement. My advice—list all your subjects, arrange them from highest to lowest marks, and take the top five as per rules.

Hope this clears your doubt!


Getting under AIR 100 in JEE Advanced in 6 months is very tough but possible if you already have strong basics and are scoring high in JEE Main-level tests. You'll need 10–12 hours of focused daily study, advanced problem-solving, and regular mock tests. If you're starting from scratch, it's unlikely, but you can still aim for a good IIT rank with consistent effort.