JEE Main Latest News and Updates 2026 - National Testing Agency will release the JEE Main 2026 city intimation slip in the first week of January 2026. The authority will activate the JEE Main 2026 session 1 city intimation slip link on the official website, jeemain.nta.nic.in. To download the city intimation slip, candidates will need their application number and password. The JEE Main 2026 admit card will be issued approximately three to four days before the exam date. The session 1 of JEE Main 2026 exam will be conducted from January 21 to 30, 2026, while session 2 will be held from April 2 to 9, 2026. As per the JEE Main 2026 latest news, the number of exam cities has also been increased to 323 this year. Read the complete article to know all the JEE Main's latest news and updates.
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Candidates can check all the latest important news and updates here. Important updates related to JEE Mains registration, application correction, admit card, and results will be updated here from time to time.
Events | JEE Main Result Details |
|---|---|
JEE Main exam conducting authority | National Testing Agency (NTA) |
JEE Main 2026 official website | jeemain.nta.nic.in / nta.ac.in |
Credentials required to check JEE Mains first attempt result | Application number and date of birth |
JEE Main 2026 registration start date | Session 1: October 31 2025 |
JEE Mains 2026 registration last date | Session 1: November 27 2025 Session 2: February 2026 |
JEE Main form correction dates 2026 | Session 1: December 1 to 2, 2025 Session 2: February 2026 |
JEE Main 2026 city intimation date | Session 1: January 2026 Session 2: March 2026 |
JEE Main 2026 Photo Correction Dates | Session 1: January 2026 |
JEE Main 2026 admit card 2026 release date | Session 1: January 2026 Session 2: March 2026 |
JEE Main exam date 2026 | Session 1: January 21 to 30, 2026 Session 2: April 2 to 9, 2026 |
Release date of JEE Main answer key (provisional) | Session 1: Paper 1- February 2026 Session 2: April 2026 |
Release date of JEE Main final answer key | Session 1: Paper 1- February 2026 Session 2: April 2026 |
JEE Main 2026 result | Session 1: Paper 1-February 2026 Session 2: April 2026 |
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
The session 1 of JEE Main 2026 application form release date was from October 31, 2025, whiile session 2 will be announced in the last week of January 2026.
The JEE Main 2026 will be conducted in two sessions - between January 21 to 30 (session 1) and April 2 and 9, 2026 (session 2).
Candidates can find JEE Main 2026 latest news and updates on the official website or from this page directly.
The official JEE Main exam website is jeemain.nta.nic.in.
The JEE Main 2026 application form for the January sessions was available on the official website jeemain.nta.nic.in.
The JEE Main 2026 exam dates are between January 21 to 30 (session 1) and April 2 to 9 (session 2).
The JEE Main 2026 syllabus has been released. However, the syllabus was reduced last year. The National Testing Agency (NTA) has made updates, removing some topics from subjects such as Physics. For example, in the Physics syllabus, topics like Scalars and Vectors, vector addition and subtraction, scalar and vector products, Unit Vector, and Resolution of a Vector have been excluded from the Kinematics chapter. For the complete and revised syllabus, candidates can check the official JEE Main website at jeemain.nta.nic.in.
IIT Roorkee will conduct the JEE Advanced 2026.
The previous year JEE Main cutoff was 93.1023262 for the General category, 79.4313582 for OBC, 80.3830119 for EWS, 61.1526933 for SC, and 47.9026465 for ST.
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The most effective way to prepare for JEE Main 2026 is by focusing on the most important Previous Year Question Papers (PYQs), which highlight high-weightage and frequently repeated questions across Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics. Since the exam strongly tests NCERT concepts, mastering these PYQs is essential for predicting the question pattern and improving your time management. https://engineering.careers360.com/articles/jee-mains-chapterwise-pyq-previous-year-questions-solutions-pdf
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With a 99.5 percentile in JEE Mains, you generally come in the range of All India Rank of 4500 and 7500. The exact rank can vary based on the total number of candidates, the difficulty of the exam, and the normalization process for that session. Here in this article you will find all about the JEE Main cutoff.
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Don't worry even if you give the wrong birthplace address in the JEE Main application, because the NTA provides the correction window. Still, it can affect the domicile/state quota. So, you must correct these mistakes in the correction window.
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Here is a list of the toughest JEE Main question papers from the past years based on student reviews and expert analysis. These shifts are widely considered the hardest because maths was very lengthy, physics was tricky, and chemistry had unpredictable questions.
For 2024, the toughest papers were 4 April Shift 1, 8 April Shift 2, 9 April Shift 1 and 6 April Shift 2.
For 2023, the toughest papers were 29 January Shift 2, 30 January Shift 1 and 1 February Shift 2.
For 2022, the toughest papers were 27 June Shift 2, 28 June Shift 1 and 29 June Shift 2.
For 2021, the toughest papers were 27 July Shift 2, 25 February Shift 2 and 16 March Shift 2.
For 2020, the toughest papers were 7 January Shift 2, 9 January Shift 1 and 6 September Shift 2.
For 2019, the toughest papers were 10 April Shift 2, 9 January Shift 1 and 12 April Shift 1.
To get the question papers for JEE main check the below link for (2016 - 2025):
https://engineering.careers360.com/articles/jee-main-question-papers
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