JEE Advanced Eligibility Criteria 2025 (Updated)

All those candidates who want to know complete details about JEE Advanced Eligibility Criteria 2025, such candidates should read this blog post completely so that you can know all the eligibility criteria related to JEE Advanced Exam 2025. The Joint Admission Board (JAB) has updated the JEE Advanced Eligibility Criteria for the 2025 Entrance Exam, reducing the number of attempts to two. Earlier, JAB had announced that applicants could attempt the JEE Advanced entrance exam up to three times in consecutive years. However, the JAB (Joint Admission Board) has now revised this policy, reducing the number of attempts eligibility criteria allows to two.

The JEE Advanced 2025 entrance examination gives applicants a chance to get into the top IITs in India. However, applicants must first ensure they meet specific JEE Advanced 2025 eligibility criteria. Only the top 2,50,000 candidates from JEE Main will be considered for JEE Advanced Entrance Examinaination 2025, with additional age and education requirements. This informative blog post explains eligibility in simple terms, including the age limit, number of attempts, and subject requirements for those looking to qualify.

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All candidates of JEE Advanced 2025 must meet each of the following five criteria simultaneously. Check all 5 eligibility criteria for JEE Advanced 2025 given below:

• Criterion A1 – Performance in JEE (Main) 2025
• Criterion A2 – Age Limit
• Criterion A3 – Number of attempts
• Criterion A4 – Appearance in Class XII (or equivalent) examination
• Exception to Criterion A3 and A4
• Criterion A5 – Earlier admission at IITs

JEE Advanced 2025 Study Materials

Download JEE Advanced Syllabus 2025 PDF

JEE Advanced Registration 2025

JEE Advanced Exam Date 2025

JEE Advanced Information Brochure 2025 PDF

Criterion A1 – JEE Advanced Eligibility Criteria 2025 (Performance in JEE (Main) 2025)

Candidates must be among the top 2,50,000 successful candidates (including all categories like UR, EWS, OBC, SC, and ST) in the B.E./B.Tech. paper (Paper I) of JEE (Main) 2025.

The percentage of different categories of candidates to be shortlisted is as follows: 10% for General-EWS Category Candidates, 27% for OBC-NCL Category Candidates, 15% for SC Category Candidates, 7.5% for ST Category Candidates, and the remaining 40.5% is open to all. Within each of these five categories, a 5% horizontal reservation in JEE Advanced 2025 is available for Divyang candidates.

The table given below shows the order followed while selecting the top 2,50,000 candidates for the JEE Main Exam 2025 in various categories based on their performance in the JEE (Main) 2025 B.E./B.Tech. paper.

Sl No.	Category	Number of “Top” candidates
1	OPEN	96187	101250
2	OPEN-PwD	5063
3	GEN-EWS	23750	25000
4	GEN-EWS-PwD	1250
5	OBC-NCL	64125	67500
6	OBC-NCL-PwD	3375
7	SC	35625	37500
8	SC-PwD	1875
9	ST	17812	18750
10	ST-PwD	938

Criterion A2 – JEE Advanced Eligibility Criteria 2025 Age Limit

Candidates of JEE Advanced 2025 should be born on or after 1 October 2000. SC, ST, and Divyang Category candidates are given a five-year relaxation in the age limit, i.e., these category candidates should be born on or after 1 October 1995.

Criterion A3 – JEE Advanced Eligibility Criteria 2025 Number of attempts

JAB has amended the eligibility criteria for JEE Advanced 2025 and reduced the number of attempts to two. In the previous notification, JAB had increased the number of attempts to three for the JEE Advanced 2025 exam. But, now the policy of the Number of Attempts has been changed.

A candidate can appear for the JEE (Advanced) entrance exam a maximum of two times in two consecutive years.

Criterion A4 – Appearance in Class XII (or equivalent) examination

Exception to Criterion A3 and A4

Criterion A5 – Earlier admission at IITs

We hope that any student who has read this blog post has all the important information related to the JEE Advanced Eligibility Criteria 2025. Apart from this, if you have any other questions about what you want to know, then write them in the comment box.

Candidates can check all this information regarding the eligibility criteria for JEE Advanced 2025 on the official website of jeeadv.ac.in.

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