JEE Mains Session 1 Exam Date 2026 Update: NTA Delay Explained, Official Notice Awaited
The National Testing Agency (NTA) will conduct the JEE Mains session 1 exam 2026 between January 21 to 30. The specific and exact exam dates for the exam are yet to be announced, and students are getting anxious about their allotment. Know what the reason behind the delay is, and when the exam date and city slip can be expected here.
JEE Mains Session 1 Exam Date 2026 Update: NTA Delay Explained, Official Notice Awaited
Reportedly, 14.5 lakh candidates have registered for the NTA JEE Main 2026 session 1 exam this year, which is the highest number of registrations that NTA has received in the past few years. All registered candidates are eagerly waiting for NTA to release the JEE Main exam date and city allotment slip. Usually, every year, NTA releases the exact exam dates for JEE Mains in the first few days of January 2026. However, this year, NTA has yet not announced the exact date and schedule.
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Candidates are now anxious for their allotted exam date and city, so that they can make travel and accommodation arrangements accordingly. More delay will lead to last-minute hassles for the candidates.
Last year, NTA announced the exact exam dates for the JEE Mains session 1 exam on January 2. For this year, the exact dates are still not available. Further, NTA had notified via the official brochure that the JEE Mains city slip will be out in the first week of January 2026. Today, January 7, marks the last day of January week one, but the city slips have not been issued yet.
Why is the JEE Mains Session 1 Exam Date 2026 Delayed?
One reason that can be behind the delay of the JEE Mains exam date announcement is that NTA has asked the candidates who registered for the JEE Main 2026 exam using identity proof documents other than the Aadhaar Card.
NTA has noticed some cases where the live photographs captured by the candidates during the application process did not match the photographs as per the records available with UIDAI. Such candidates have to now complete the photo verification certificate upload by January 15.
This might be causing the delay in the announcement of the JEE Main 2026 exam date and the city intimation slip.
JEE Main 2026 City intimation Latest Update
As per the latest update on the JEE Main 2026 city intimation slip, NTA has already generated the login link to download the city slip. However, the city intimation slips are not yet available under the candidate login. The link was generated on January 6, and it can be expected that the city slip can be out anytime soon now at jeemain.nta.nic.in.
NTA will hold the JEE Main 2026 session exam between January 21 to 30. The exam date and exam centre city will be allotted to the candidates via the city intimation slip. The exam shift, reporting time and exam day guidelines will be provided to the candidates via the JEE Mains 2026 admit card, 3 to 4 days before the exam.
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JEE Main city intimation slip 2026 will be available on the NTA official website jeemain.nta.nic.in tentatively in the first week of January for the session 1 exam. JEE Mains City slip have details about the JEE Main exam city in which the candidate is allotted the centre to appear in the exam and the date of exam. It helps candidates to plan their travel to the JEE Main exam centre in advance. JEE Main city intimation slip is different from the admit card.
No. NTA has clearly mentioned that ot will not change the dates of JEE Main exam of there is a clash of dates with any other examinations.
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JEE Main 2026 session 1 exam will be held between January 21 to 30. Around 2 weeks are left for the exams. Candidates can also appear for the JEE Main 2026 session 2 exams to be held between April 2 to 9.