JEE Advanced Eligibility Criteria 2021JEE Advanced 2021 exam eligibility entails that candidates must qualify Paper-1 of JEE Main 2021. Candidates who wish to take this exam have to fulfill certain criteria as fixed by JAB. The eligibility criteria for JEE Advanced 2021 is as follows:
1 – Performance in JEE Main 2021
Candidates who fall among the top 2,50,000 rankers in JEE Main 2021 across all categories are eligible to appear for JEE Advanced. Out of this number, the percentage of candidates eligible for admissions under different categories are as follows:
General category candidates (from the common merit list) – 46.5%
• General EWS – 4%
• OBC-NCL candidates – 27%
• SC candidates – 15%
• ST candidates – 7.5%
• PWD candidates - Horizontal reservation of 5% in all the above categories
2 – Age limit
• General or OBC-NCL category candidates born on or after October 1, 1996, can apply for the exam.
• However, the age limit for SC, ST or PwD category candidates has been relaxed. SC, ST or PwD candidates born on or after October 1, 1991, will be eligible for the exam.
Reservation of Seats
s per the JEE Advanced information brochure, “Candidates who are not citizens of India at the time of registering for JEE Advanced 2021 (by birth or naturalised) are treated as foreign nationals”. It is further shared that, “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”.
Indian nationals will be offered admissions based on seats reserved for the category under which they fall. This reservation of seats was done in accordance with the rules mentioned by the Government of India.
As per the information brochure, “Unfilled seats in the OBC-NCL category can be allotted to GEN category candidates whereas seats remaining vacant under the SC and ST categories shall not be allotted to candidates belonging to other categories. The reservation for PwD candidates was horizontal and hence, unfilled seats were allotted to candidates belonging to the respective categories, i.e, unfilled SC-PwD seats were allotted to candidates belonging to the SC category and so on”.
Candidates should note here that, once they select a category at the time of JEE Advanced registration, then they will not be given an option to make any changes in their category selection field in the registration form.
JEE Advanced 2024-2025: Eligibility for Foreign Nationals
Candidates who are NOT citizens of India (by birth or naturalized) and have studied (are studying) abroad at 10+2 level or equivalent at the time of registering for JEE (Advanced) 2021, are treated as foreign nationals. Seats allotted to foreign nationals are supernumerary with a cap of 10% of the total number of seats in every course.
Foreign nationals are outside the ambit of reservation of seats under the GEN-EWS, OBC-NCL, SC, ST and PwD (Persons with Disability) categories as mandated by Govt. of India.
These candidates are not required to write JEE (Main) 2021 and may register for JEE (Advanced) 2021 directly subject to fulfilment of other eligibility criteria.
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