JEE Advanced Eligibility Criteria 2021 - Check Age Limit, Nationality, Aggregate Marks

JEE Advanced Eligibility Criteria 2021 - Education Minister has declared that the requirement of minimum 75% marks in class 12 has been waived off from JEE Advanced 2021 eligibility criteria. IIT Kharagpur will release detailed JEE Advanced 2021 eligibility criteria on the official website along with the application form. Candidates must meet the conditions and requirements of eligibility criteria of JEE Advanced 2021 to appear for the JEE Advanced 2021. Various factors such as a qualifying exam, marks required and more has to be met by the candidates for admissions into IITs through JEE Advanced. If the criteria are not met, then the candidates may get disqualified. It is to be noted that only JEE Main qualified candidates will be eligible for JEE Advanced 2021. Candidates can check the detailed information about JEE Advanced Eligibility Criteria 2021 in the article below.
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JEE Advanced 2021 Eligibility Criteria

All candidates are advised to check the eligibility criteria of JEE Advanced 2021 before filling out the application form to know if they are eligible for admissions or not. The criteria related to age, number of attempts, qualifying exam marks and more has to be met by the candidates.

Criterion 1 - Performance in JEE Main 2021

Candidates should have compulsorily passed JEE Main 2021 (Paper 1). It is also necessary for them to be among the top 2,50,000 candidates. The categories will be divided as the following:

• GEN-EWS - 10%

• OBC-NCL - 27%

• SC - 15%

• ST - 7.5%

• OPEN - 40.5%

• PwD - 5% horizontal reservation in all of the above.

Category-wise distribution of top 2,50,000* candidates (Criterion 1)

*Total number of candidates can go above 2,50,000 with “tied” ranks/scores in any category.

JEE Advanced Eligibility Criteria 2021 - Age Limit

For JEE Advanced 2021, the candidates should have been born on or after October 1, 1996. However, SC, ST and PwD candidates will get a relaxation of 5 years (born on or after October 1, 1991).

JEE Advanced Eligibility Criteria- Number of Attempts

The maximum number of attempts that the candidates can attempt JEE Advanced is two times in two consecutive years.

JEE Advanced 2021 Eligibility Criteria- Appearance in 12th (or equivalent) Examination

All candidates should have qualified the 10+2th examination in 2020 or 2021 for the first time. However, if the result is declared for the academic year 2018-19 after June 2019, then the candidates of that board who appeared for their 12th standard qualifying exam in 2019 will also be termed eligible for JEE Advanced 2021, if they also meet the other eligibility criteria.

The following qualifying examinations will be considered as equivalent to 12th standard:

• Final examination of 10+2 system, conducted by a Central or State Board recognized by the Association of Indian Universities (AIU).

• Intermediate or two-year Pre-University examination conducted by a Board or University recognized by the Association of Indian Universities.

• Final examination of the two year course of the Joint Services Wing of the National Defence Academy.

• Senior Secondary School Examination conducted by the National Institute of Open Schooling with a minimum of five subjects.

• Any Public School, Board or University examination in India or in a foreign country recognized as equivalent to the 10+2 system by the AIU.

• H.S.C. vocational examination.

• Diploma recognized by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) or a State Board of Technical Education of at least 3 years duration.

• General Certificate Education (GCE) examination (London, Cambridge or Sri Lanka) at the Advanced (A) level.

• High School Certificate Examination of the Cambridge University or International Baccalaureate Diploma of the International Baccalaureate Office, Geneva.

JEE Advanced Eligibility Criteria 2021 - Marks Required in 12th Standard/ Qualifying Exam

The eligibility criteria of minimum 75% marks in class 12 has been waived off for JEE Advanced 2021 due to covid pandemic. In normal situations, for admissions into IITs, the candidates will be required to meet the following criteria:

• Minimum 75% aggregate marks should have been secured in 12th standard (or equivalent) examination. For the SC/ST/PwD category, the aggregate marks is minimum 65% OR
• The candidates should be within the top 20 category percentile of the qualifying examination.
• While calculating aggregate marks, the candidates should take into account scores of Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Language and any one other subject.

Process of Total Marks Calculation for 12th (or equivalent) Examination

• If the marks given in a subject is not out of 100, then the marks will be scaled (up or down) to 100 so that the total aggregate marks becomes out of 500.
• If a Board awards only letter grades without providing an equivalent percentage of marks on the grade sheet, then the candidate will have to obtain a certificate from the Board specifying the equivalent marks and submit it at the time of acceptance of the allocated seat. If the candidate fails to provide the certificate, then the final decision will be taken by the Joint Implementation Committee.
• In case any of the subjects Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics and Language are not evaluated in the final year, then the marks for the same subject from the previous year/s will be used for calculating percentage of aggregate marks.
• Candidates who appeared in 12th standard (or equivalent) board examination for the first time in 2020 and reappeared in all subjects in 2021 will have to note that the best of the two performances will be considered.
• If a Board gives aggregate marks considering both 11th and 12th standard examinations, then only 12th standard marks will be considered. If a Board gives aggregate marks considering the results of all three years of a 3 year diploma or courses of equivalent duration, then only the marks scored in the final year will be considered. Similarly, for Boards which follow a semester system, the marks scored in the final two semesters will be considered.
• If a Board does not release marks scored in individual subjects but gives only the aggregate marks, then the aggregate marks given by the Board will be considered.

JEE Advanced Eligibility Criteria 2021 - Cutoff for Top 20 Percentile

The eligibility criteria of candidates to be in top 20 percentile in class 12 has been waived off for JEE Advanced 2021. In normal conditions, the criteria is as follow

• Category wise cutoff marks for the top 20 percentile are calculated based on the marks scored by the candidates who pass in their respective boards in the particular year.

• Cutoff marks for PwD candidates will be the same as the lowest of the cutoff marks for other categories.

• Top 20 percentile cutoff for the academic year 2021 will be considered for those candidates who passed the 12th standard (or equivalent) examination in the same year. Similarly, the cutoff of 2020 will be taken for candidates who qualified the exam in the academic year 2020.

• Candidates who appeared for the qualifying exam for the first time in 2020 and wish to reappear in 2021 for the objective of qualifying for the top 20 percentile cutoff will have to reattempt all of the subjects. The top 20 percentile cutoff of 2020 will be considered for such candidates.

• In case a Board does not provide information about the top 20 percentile cutoff, the candidates will have to produce a certificate from the respective board stating that he/she falls within the top 20 percentile of successful candidates.

JEE Advanced 2021 Eligibility Criteria - Aggregate Marks of 75% (65% for SC/ST/PwD)

• 12th standard (or equivalent) Board examination aggregate marks secured in 2021 will be considered for those candidates who pass the 12th standard in 2021.

• The aggregate marks scored by the candidates in the 12th standard (or equivalent) Board examination of 2020 will be considered provided the candidates do not reappear for the examination in 2021 in any of the subjects.

• If a candidate has passed 12th standard (or equivalent) examination in 2020 and wishes to improve his/her aggregate marks to satisfy the criterion of 75% aggregate marks (65% for SC/ST/PwD), then he/she can reappear for any number of subjects for improvement. The percentage marks in this situation will be calculated by considering the marks obtained in 2020 or 2021, whichever is higher, in the respective subjects, in his/her two attempts in 2020 and 2021.

JEE Advanced Eligibility Criteria 2021 - Earlier Admissions at IITs

Candidates who have been previously admitted in an IIT will not be eligible for JEE Advanced 2021, irrespective of whether they continued in the programme or not. Also, those candidates who had accepted an IIT seat by reporting at a reporting centre in the past will not be termed eligible for admissions. Along with the above mentioned criteria, those candidates whose admissions at IITs were cancelled after joining will also not be eligible for JEE Advanced 2021.

However,candidates who have been admitted to a preparatory course in any of the IITs for the first time in 2020 will be able to appear for JEE Advanced 2021. Those candidates who paid the seat acceptance fee in 2020 will also seen as eligible for JEE Advanced 2021 if they meet the following conditions:

• If the candidates did not report at any reporting centres OR

• Withdrew before the last round of seat allotment OR

• Had their seat cancelled (for whatever reason) before the final round of seat allotment

Other Links

• JEE Advanced application form
• JEE Advanced admit card
• JoSAA counselling