Eligibility criteria for JEE Advanced 2015 The Joint Entrance Examination Advanced 2015 (JEE Advanced 2015) will be held on Sunday, May 24, 2015. Paper I will be held from 9 am to 12 noon and Paper II from 2 pm to 5 pm. Candidates who clear the JEE Advanced can gain admission into the undergraduate (UG) programs of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and the Indian School of Mines Dhanbad (ISM Dhanbad). All the aspirants, including foreign nationals, need to fulfill five criteria to appear for JEE Advanced 2015. Criterion 1 - Performance in JEE Main 2015: The candidate should be among the top 1,50,000 (all categories included) in JEE Main 2015. The percentage of the total number of candidates for various categories is as follows: 50.5% for General (from the common merit list), 27% for Other Backward Classes Non Creamy Layer (OBC NCL), 15% for Scheduled Caste (SC) and 7.5% for Scheduled Tribe (ST). Within each of these four categories, 3% horizontal reservation is available for Persons with Disabilities (PwD) candidates. For the category-wise distribution of the number of “top” candidates, please click here. Criterion 2 - Age limit: The candidate should have been born on or after October 1, 1990 if belonging to the General or OBC NCL category and on or after October 1, 1985 if belonging to the SC, ST or PwD categories. Criterion 3 - Number of attempts: A candidate can attempt JEE Advanced a maximum of two times and that too in consecutive years. Therefore, JEE Advanced 2015 should be either the candidate’s first attempt or the second consecutive attempt. Criterion 4 - Appearance in Class XII (or equivalent) examination: The candidate should have appeared for the Class XII (or equivalent) examination for the first time in all the subjects in either 2014 or 2015. Candidates who appeared for the Class XII (or equivalent) examination in 2014 and wish to re-appear for the same in 2015, either for improvement or because they could not clear one or more subjects, will need to re-appear for all the subjects in 2015. Those who appeared for the first time in their Class XII (or equivalent) examination in 2013 or earlier are not eligible. However, candidates whose Class XII (or equivalent) examination board Results for the academic year 2012-13 were declared after June, 2013 are eligible. Criterion 5 - Earlier admission at IITs/ISM Dhanbad: The candidates should not have taken admission (irrespective of whether they continued in the program or not) or even accepted admission by paying admission fee at any of the IITs or ISM Dhanbad in the past; even candidates whose admission was cancelled are not eligible. However, candidates who have been admitted to a preparatory course in any of the IITs in 2014 can appear for JEE Advanced 2015. Candidates need to note that the online registration process for the examination will be held from 10 am on Saturday, May 2 to 5 pm on Thursday, May 7, 2015.
Posted on: Thu, 09 Oct 2014 02:04:30 +0000
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