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IIT-JEE : Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Qualifying Examination:Candidates applying for IIT-JEE should have either completed or must be appearing in any one of the following examinations in the year of the IIT-JEE exam:-

  • The final examination of the 10+2 system, conducted by any recognized Central/State Board.
  • Intermediate or two-year Pre-University Examination conducted by a recognized Board/ University.
  • Final Examination of the two-year course of the Joint Services Wing of the National Defence Academy.
  • General Certificate Education ( GCE ) Examination ( London / Cambridge / Sri Lanka ) at the Advanced (A) level.
  • High School Certificate Examination of the Cambridge University.
  • Any Public School / Board / University Examination in India or in any foreign country recognized by the Association of Indian Universities as equivalent to 10+2 system.
  • H.S.C. Vocational Examination.
  • Senior Secondary School Examination conducted by the National Open School with a minimum of five subjects.
  • 3 or 4-year Diploma recognized by AICTE – All India Council for Technical for Technical Education or a State Board of Technical Education.

In case the relevant qualifying examination is not a public examination, the candidate must have passed at least one public (Board or Pre-University) examination at an earlier level.

Eligibility Criteria for Candidates appearing in qualifying examination

  1. The candidates belonging to general  category must secure a minimum of 60% marks in aggregate in Qualifying Examination. Candidates belonging to SC, ST and PD categories must secure a minimum of 55% in aggregate in the Qualifying Examination. If any Board awards only letter grades without providing an equivalent percentage of marks on the grade sheet, the candidate should obtain a certificate from the Board specifying equivalent marks, and submit it at the time of counselling.
  2. With effect from 2006, a candidate is allowed only two attempts to appear in JEE. Furthermore, he/she is allowed to write JEE only in the year in which he/she passes the qualifying examination and/or in the following year.
  3. Candidates, who join any of the IITs, IT-BHU Varanasi and ISM Dhanbad through JEE, will not be permitted to appear in JEE in future.

Exception: Candidates, who have passed their Qualifying Examination in 2005 or earlier, are permitted to appear in JEE-2006, as a last chance, irrespective of the marks secured in the Qualifying Examination, or the number of earlier attempts at JEE, subject to their satisfying age limit This exception is also applicable to those candidates who are currently registered in any of the IITs, IT-BHU, Varanasi and ISM, Dhanbad.

Date of Birth: No minimum age is required to appear in IIT-JEE. Upper age limit is 25 years for general category candidates, which is relaxable upto 5 years in case of reserved category candidates.

Special Requirements for Mining Engineering and Mining Machinery Courses: Candidates opting for Mining Engineering and Mining Machinery courses must be free from colour blindness.

Women Candidates for Mining Courses : Section 46 (1) of the Mines Act, 1952 states that “No woman shall, notwithstanding anything contained in any other law, be employed (a) in any part of a mine which is below ground, (b) in any mine above ground except between the hours 6 a.m. and 7 p.m.”. Women candidates are not admitted to Mining Engineering and Mining Machinery Engineering at ISM Dhanbad, whereas the corresponding programmes at IIT Kharagpur and IT-BHU, Varanasi have no such restriction.

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3 Responses to “IIT-JEE : Eligibility Criteria”

  1. 1
    rajnikant kostubh Says:
    September 4th, 2008 at 7:26 am

    if a person has attempted in iit 2008 as an appearing student but he hasn’t able to clear his board exam this time.
    now he is giving his 10+2 exam next year(2009).then he will get the next two chance(in 2009 & 2010)or just a single more chance

  2. 2
    rakesh Says:
    September 4th, 2008 at 8:11 am

    i hav completed my 10+2 exam in year 2004 with PHY-CHEM-BIO. now this year i m planning to write 10+2 exam conducted by the National Open School with 1 additional subject - MATH.
    will i be eligible to write IIT exam (it will be my first attempt),please make me clear over that as soon as possible !
    thanks…

  3. 3
    SAURABH Says:
    September 5th, 2008 at 4:38 am

    I WANT TO KNOW THE NEW CRITERIA OF %AGE FOR THE ENTRANCE OF IIT



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