JEE Mains Session 1 Rescheduled, Now Clashes 4 Engg Entrance Exams

Owing to JEE (Mains) 2022 Session 1 dates clashing with some Board examinations, National Testing Agency (NTA) had released new dates for the same. Earlier planned to be conducted from 16 to 21 April, it will now be held on 6 days between 21 Apr and 4 May. With this rescheduling, JEE (Mains) Session 1 dates now clash /overlap atleast 4 other engineering entrance exams.

This year, the JEE Mains will be conducted in 2 Sessions, the second session being in the last week of May.

Revised dates

Last date to apply for Session : 31 March 2022 (No change)

Entrance exam Session 1 : 21, 24, 25, 29 Apr and 1, 4 May (earlier dates were 16 to 21 April 2022)

Applications for Session 2 : 8 April to 3 May 2022 (no change)

Entrance exam Session 2 : 24 to 29 May 2022 (no change)

Entrance exams clashing with JEE (Mains) Session 1 : It may please be noted that the Session 1 dates of JEE (Mains) clash / overlap the entrance exam dates of SRMJEEE, Tripura TJEE-Eng, West Bengal WBJEE and HITSEEE. Besides these engineering entrance exams, it also has clash/overlap issue with AILET, NIRMA BDesign entrance and UPES-DAT.

Language options : This year, NTA is offering option of taking JEE Mains in as many as 13 languages, as listed below :

English : All Examination Centres in India

Hindi : All Examination Centres in India

English and Urdu : All Examination Centres in India

English and Assamese : Examination Centres in Assam

English and Bengali : Examination Centres in West Bengal, Tripura and Andaman & Nicobar Island

English and Gujarati : Examination Centres in Gujarat, Daman and Diu, Dadra and Nagar Haveli

English and Kannada : Examination Centres in Karnataka

English and Marathi : Examination Centres in Maharashtra

English and Malayalam : Examination Centres in Kerala and Lakshadweep

English and Odia : Examination Centres in Odisha

English and Punjabi : Examination Centres in Punjab, Chandigarh and Delhi

English and Tamil : Examination Centres in Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and Andaman & Nicobar Island

English and Telugu : Examination Centres in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana

Year of Appearance in Qualifying Examination

Only those candidates who have passed Class 12 / equivalent examination in 2020, 2021 or those who are appearing in Class 12 / equivalent examination in 2022, are eligible to appear in JEE (Main) 2022.

Candidates who passed Class 12/equivalent examination in 2019 or before as well as those who will appear in such examination in 2023 or later are not eligible to appear in JEE (Main) 2022.