JEE Main 2021 to be conducted between February 23 & 26: Education Minister

JEE Main 2021 to be conducted between February 23 & 26: Education Minister

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New Delhi, Updated on Dec 16, 2020 18:59 IST

JEE Main 2021 first session to be conducted from February 23 to 26. Check more details below.

JEE Main 2021: Dr Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank, Minister of Human Resource Development has announced that JEE Main 2021 will be conducted between February 23 and February 26. Some important points that were shared by the education minister are as below.

JEE Main now to be conducted four times in a year. The exam will be conducted in February, March, April and May. It will help students to appear in any of the four exams as per their situation. If any candidate appears in all the four sessions of the exam, his/her best score will be considered for the counselling process. The decision to provide multiple exam dates is to ensure that students can improve their score. Also, in case one of the JEE Main 2021 exam clashes with the board exam 2021, then students can appear for another exam. 

JEE Main 2021 for the first time will be conducted in 13 regional languages including English, Hindi, Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Marathi, Malayalam, Odia, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu. It will help the candidates from all over the country to appear for the exam.

75 questions out of 90 or 25 out of questions 30 in each section of Chemistry, Physics and Mathematics. This step has been taken keeping in mind the syllabus reduced by different boards across the country. It means that out of 30 questions in every section (Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics), candidates will be required to attempt only 25 questions. There will be no negative marking for the 15 optional questions incase they are attempted by students. 

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