ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA FOR APPEARING IN JEE (ADVANCED) 2015
A candidate,including a foreign national,must fulfill each and every one of the following five criteria to appear in 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 percentages
of the total number of candidates for various categories is as follows:
50.5% for GEN(from the common merit list), 27% for OBC-NCL, 15% for SC and 7.5% for ST. Within each of these four categories, 3% horizontal reservation is available for PwD candidates.
Criterion 2– Age limit:
The candidate should have been born on or after October 1, 1990 if belonging to the GEN or OBC- NCL category and on or after October 1, 1985 if belonging to the SC,ST or PwD category.
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 ClassXII (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 tore-appear for the same in 2015 (either for improvement or because they failed in one or more subjects), will have to re-appear in all the subjects in 2015.Those who appeared for the first time in their ClassXII (or equivalent) examination in 2013 or earlier are NOT eligible. However, candidates who se ClassXII (or equivalent) examination Board results for the academic year 2012-13 were declared after June 2013 are eligible to appear for JEE (Advanced)2015.
Criterion 5– Earlier admission at IITs/ISM:
The candidate should NOT have taken admission (irrespective of whether or not he/she continued in the program) OR even accepted admission by paying admission fee at any of the IITs or ISM 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.
NATIONALITY
Candidates who are NOT citizens of India at the time of registering for JEE (Advanced) 2015 (by birth or naturalized) are treated as foreign nationals.
Seats allotted to foreign nationals are supernumerary. However, not all Institutes may have supernumerary seats. The availability of supernumerary seats will be announced at the time of seat allocation
Terms and Conditions
Important Dates:
Online registration for JEE (Advanced) 2015: May2-7, 2015
Downloading of admit cards: May 9-12, 2015
Rectification of discrepancies, if any, in admit cards: By May 14, 2015
JEE (Advanced) 2015 examination: May 24, 2015
Online display of ORS : June 3-6, 2015
Requests for review of responses: June 3-6, 2015
Online display of answer keys: June 8, 2015
Feedback from candidates on answer keys: June 8-11, 2015
Online display of marks allotted: June 13, 2015
Declaration ofJEE (Advanced) 2015 results : June18, 2015
Online registration for architecture aptitude test: June18-19, 2015
Architecture aptitude test: June 21, 2015
Online declaration of results of architecture aptitude test: June 25, 2015
Online filling-in of choices: June 26-30, 2015
Seat allocation (1stround): July 2, 2015
Acceptance of seats (1stround): July 2-8, 2015
Seat allocation (2ndround): July 10, 2015
Acceptance of seats (2ndround): July 11-15, 2015
First semester session begins: July 16 onwards
