NTA Opens JEE-Mains 2022, Apply by 31 Mar for Session 1

National Testing Agency (NTA) has started the applications process for Joint Entrance Exam (JEE Mains 2022) which, this year, will be conducted in 2 Sessions, in the month April and May.

JEE Mains is conducted for admission to Undergraduate Engineering Programs at NITs, IIITs, other centrally funded Technical Institutions, Institutions funded by several participating State Governments, and several other Institutions. Last year (2021), UP state also started admitting students based on JEE-Mains and scrapped its state level entrance exam UPSEE (for engineering admissions). JEE Mains is also an eligibility test for JEE Advanced, which the candidate has to take if he/she is aspiring for admission to the undergraduate programmes offered by the IITs.

Key dates

Last date to apply for Session : 31 March 2022

Entrance exam Session 1 : 16 to 21 April 2022

Applications for Session 2 : 8 April to 3 May 2022

Entrance exam Session 2 : 24 to 29 May 2022

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.

Relaxation in Criteria as a special case for appearing in JEE (Advanced) 2022

(a) One-time measure for those who first appeared in class 12th (or equivalent) examination in 2020/2021 AND successfully registered for JEE (Advanced) 2021 but did NOT appear:

Candidates who appeared in class 12th (or equivalent) examination for the first time in 2020 OR 2021 AND successfully registered for JEE (Advanced) 2021 but were absent in BOTH the papers, i.e., Paper 1 and Paper 2, of JEE (Advanced) 2021, are eligible to directly appear for JEE (Advanced) 2022. However, they must successfully register for the JEE (Advanced) 2022 in the online registration portal and pay the registration fee. Further, these candidates would 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.

Note: This one-time measure is NOT applicable to candidates who appeared for their class 12 exam for the first time before 2020.

(b) One-time measure for those who first appeared in class 12th in 2020:

As a one-time special measure due to the ongoing pandemic,  candidates who appeared in class 12th (or equivalent) examination  in 2020 for the first time are also eligible to appear for JEE  (Advanced) 2022 PROVIDED they satisfy the following two  criteria simultaneously: (i) The candidate should have appeared  ONLY ONCE for JEE (Advanced), either in the year 2020 or  2021; OR, have NOT appeared in any paper in both JEE  (Advanced) 2020 and JEE (Advanced) 2021. (ii) These candidate(s) should appear/should have appeared in JEE (Main) 2022 and meet the cut-off score of the top 2,50,000 successful candidates (including all categories) for qualifying for JEE (Advanced) 2022 in their respective category. 

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. Further, these candidates would 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.