JEE Advanced 2022: Students who missed IIT Entrance 2021, 2020 get extra attempt; Check eligibility criteria

The relaxation was extended to 2020 students for the 2021 exam as well and has been once again offered to eligible candidates who could not take the exam.

JEE advanced extra attempt: Joint Admissions Board (JAB) has announced that the students who were eligible to appear for the IIT entrance - JEE advanced - in 2020 or 2021 but could not appear for the same will be eligible to take the exam again in 2022. Amid the ongoing pandemic situation, the Board has offered relaxation to candidates. The relaxation was extended to 2020 students for the 2021 exam as well and has been once again offered to eligible candidates who could not take the exam.

JEE Advanced Extra Attempt Eligibility Criteria 

Candidates must note that for the 2020 batch, students who took JEE Advanced once or not in any of the eligible attempts (2020/2021) will be eligible to take this extra attempt. However, those students who took the JEE Advanced exam both in 2020 and in 2021 will not be able to take IIT entrance in 2022.

The official notice released by JAB reads, “This one-time measure is applicable to ONLY those candidates for whom the appearance in JEE (Advanced) 2022 will be their first or second attempt and is not applicable to candidates who appeared for their class 12th exam for the first time before 2020. No candidate will be allowed to appear in JEE (Advanced) more than two times”.

Earlier, candidates had to appear JEE Main and rank among the top 2.5 lakh candidates of the engineering entrance exam to be eligible for IIT entrance. Every year, the Board calculates the merit to appear for JEE Advanced. The candidates who would be appearing in extra attempt will be considered in addition to and not as part of the total number of candidates who would qualify from JEE Main 2022 for appearing in JEE Advanced 2022, as per rules.

Meanwhile, JEE Advanced 2023 syllabus has also been changed by JAB. The new syllabus includes some chapters which were not earlier part of Advanced but were in Mains. According to experts, the modulation in the syllabus makes the IIT entrance more in sync with NCERT and JEE Main syllabus. However, students appearing in JEE Advanced 2022 must note that the ongoing syllabus would continue for the same.

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