JEE Mains 2022: NTA has released the exam dates and application for the engineering entrance exam at jeemain.nta.nic.in. The last date to fill out the application is 31st March. Check to know marks required to apply for JEE Advanced here. JEE Main 2022: As per the recent updates, National Testing Agency (NTA) has released the exam dates of JEE Mains. As per the available dates, the JEE Mains April session will be conducted on 21, 24, 25, 29 April and 1, 4 May 2022. To appear in the Joint Engineering Entrance Exam, candidates will have to fill up the application form.
The JEE Mains 2022 application form is available in online mode at jeemain.nta.nic.in. The last to apply for the JEE Mains April session is 31st March 2022. All the candidates qualifying in the exam will be eligible for JEE Advanced. Here, they can check the minimum qualifying marks required to apply for IIT JEE Advanced?
JEE Mains 2022 Aggregate Marks in Class 12th Required To Qualifying for IIT JEE Advanced
Earlier, marks scored by JEE Advanced aspirants in Class 12 or any other qualifying exam played a very important role as far as their eligibility for IIT JEE Entrance Exam. However, this year, owing to the impact of the pandemic, the exam conducting authority – IIT Bombay has relaxed the eligibility criteria for the candidates. Candidates’ eligibility for JEE Advanced 2022 will be judged only on the basis of their performance in JEE Main 2022 examination and not on the basis of their class 12 performance
Appearance in Class 12th Board Exams
A candidate should have appeared for the Class 12th (or equivalent) examination for the first time in either 2021 or 2022 with the subjects Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics. Those who had appeared in Class 12th (or equivalent), for the first time in 2020 or earlier, are NOT eligible to appear in JEE (Advanced) 2022 unless covered by the one-time special measure set. By appearance in class 12th (or equivalent), it is meant that the board concerned declared the result for that year irrespective of whether or not the examination was conducted. It will be considered as an appearance even if the result of a particular candidate got withheld.
Performance of JEE Mains for IIT JEE Advanced
Candidates should have compulsorily passed JEE Main 2022 (Paper 1). It is also necessary for them to be among the top 2,50,000 candidates. The different categories have been divided like the table provided below –
Category | Distribution percentage |
GEN-EWS | 10% |
OBC-NCL | 27% |
SC | 15% |
ST | 7.5% |
OPEN | 40.5% |
PwD | 5% horizontal reservation in all of the above |