JEE Advanced 2026 Eligibility Criteria OUT at jeeadv.ac.in; Check complete details here

The eligibility criteria of JEE Advanced 2026 have been released by IIT Roorkee. The eligibility criteria incldues five important conditions which every candidate has to fulfill in order to appear in JEE Advanced exam 2026. Candidates not fulfilling the eligibility conditions will not be able to appear in the exam.

IIT Roorkee has released the JEE Advanced eligibility criteria 2026. Every candidate aspiring to appear in the JEE Advanced exam 2026 have to fulfill the eligibility criteria failing which admission will not be given. As per the details released by the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee, there are five eligibility conditions which every candidate has to fulfill. Candidates can check more details related to the eligibility conditions on the JEE Advanced official website jeeadv.ac.in. The five criteria of JEE Advanced 2026 eligibility criteria are

1) Performance in JEE Main 2026: To appear in the JEE Advanced 2026 exam, candidates must be among the top 2,50,000 candidates (including all categories) in BE/BTech paper of JEE Main 2026. The percentages of various categories of candidates to be shortlisted are: 10% for GEN-EWS, 27% for OBC-NCL, 15% for SC, 7.5% for ST, and the remaining 40.5% is OPEN for all. Within each of these five categories, 5% horizontal reservation is available for PwD candidates.

2) Age Limit: Candidates should have been born on or after October 1, 2001. Five years age relaxation is given to SC, ST, and PwD candidates, and candidates of these categories should have been born on or after October 1, 1996.

3) Number of Attempts: A candidate can appear maximum two times in two consecutive years in JEE Advanced 2026 exam.

4) Appearance in Class 12: A candidate should have appeared for the class 12 or its equivalent exam for the first time in either 2025 or 2026 with Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics as compulsory subjects.

5) Earlier Admission at IITs: A candidate should NOT have been admitted to an IIT under any academic program that is listed in JoSAA Business Rules of 2025, irrespective of whether or not the candidate continued in the program OR accepted an IIT seat by reporting “online” / at a “reporting centre” in the past. Candidates whose admission to IITs was cancelled (for whatever reason) after joining any IIT are also NOT eligible to appear for JEE Advanced 2026.

IIT Roorkee announced the JEE Advanced 2026 exam date earlier on December 5, 2025. As per the schedule announced, the exam will be conducted on May 17, 2026. Other details related to the exam like syllabus and exam pattern will be released soon. Registrations for JEE Advanced exam 2026 will start in April.

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