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ADITYA KUMAR Student Expert 6th Jun, 2021

Hi

Your profile suggests that you are in class 11. You can appear for jee main either in the year of appearing for 12th baord examination or after passing it.

For your reference,

Jee main eligibility criteria is given below-

-) Qualification required :- to be eligible  for JEE mains you need 10+2/equivalent qualification.

Course

Required Criteria based on Class 12th  or equivalent

B.E/B.Tech

Passed qualifying examination with Physics and   Mathematics as compulsory subjects

along with any one of :-


-)Chemistry

-)Biotechnology

-)Biology

-) Technical Vocational subject.

B.Arch

Passed qualifying examination with Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry

B.Planning

Passed qualifying examination with Mathematics


-) Passing year :- one is eligible for JEE main examination for consecutive three years starting from the year of appearing for 12th /equivalent examination i. e to be eligible  for JEE mains 2021 you should be either appearing for 12th board exam or equivalent  in 2021 or should have passed it in 2020 or 2019

-) There is no age limit to be eligible

-) there is no minimum percentage requirement to be eligible for JEE Main.

But yes,

To be eligible for NITs, IIITs, CFTIs one needs at least 75% marks in class 12th if belongs to General or OBC category  or at least 65% marks in class 12th if belongs to Sc or St category. For this year i. e 2021 this minimum percentage requirement of 75% - 65 % has been lifted off.

For detailed information about jee main eligibility criteria  go through our page, the link for which is provided below

https://engineering.careers360.com/articles/jee-main-eligibility-criteria

To prepare well you can go for our jee program at the convenience of your home, the link for the same is provided below

https://learn.careers360.com/knockout-jee-main

Thank you


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