JEE Mains

The Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Government of India (GOI) has established National Testing Agency (NTA) as an independent autonomous and self-sustained premier testing organization under Society Registration Act 1860 for conducting efficient, transparent and international standards tests in order to assess the competency of candidates for admissions to premier higher education institutions.

In a major announcement, the Union Minister for Education, Ramesh Pokhriyal said that the JEE Main exam are going to be held fourfold starting from Session-1: 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 and 21 April 2022

Session-2: 24, 25, 26, 27, 28 and 29 May 2022. The minister further clarified that the syllabus for JEE Main 2022 will remain an equivalent and students are going to be given a option to attempt any 75 questions (25 questions per subject) out of the 90 questions given within the exam. For JEE Main 2021, there were 75 questions which had to be answered by the candidates, 25 each in Chemistry, Physics and Mathematics.

Admission criteria to Undergraduate Engineering Programs at NITs, IIITs, other Centrally Funded Technical Institutions (CFTI), Institutions funded by participating State Governments, and other Institutions shall include the performance in the class 12/equivalent qualifying Examination and in the Joint Entrance Examination, JEE (Main). The (B. E. /B. Tech.) of JEE (Main) will also be an eligibility test for the JEE (Advanced), which the candidate has to take if he/she is aspiring for admission to the undergraduate programs offered by the Indian Institute of Technology (IITs).

About JEE (Main) – 2022

• The JEE (Main)-2022 will be conducted two times before admissions in the next academic session. The students will have following benefits of the new pattern:
• This will give one more opportunity to the students to improve their scores in examination if they fail to give their best in first attempt without wasting their whole academic year.
• In first attempt, the students will get a first-hand experience of taking an examination and to know their mistakes which they can improve while attempting for the second time.
• This will reduce chances of dropping a year and droppers would not have to waste a full year.
• If anyone missed the examination due to reasons beyond control, then he/she won’t have to wait for one full year.
• The student’s best of the two NTA scores will be considered for preparation of Merit List/ Ranking.