Engineering

Yes, VNIT Nagpur follows the semester pattern. The programme extends over four academic years, semester-wise. Therefore, the whole curriculum is divided into both theoretical and practical skills. The institute follows the CBCS pattern. This semester-based curriculum allows students to focus more intensively on their chosen areas of engineering. Candidates can visit the official website to apply.

No. The JEE Advanced exam is held in computer based test mode and after the exam, candidates will not be given any hardcopy of the questions as asked in the exam. However, the official question papers are uploaded on the official website, jeeadv.ac.in, a few hours after the exam is over in all shifts. Candidates can access the official website and download and save the JEE Advanced question paper PDF.

Candidate must be either 17 years of age or attain the age at the time of admission to apply for BTech programme at SBB, D Y Patil. The duration of the B. Tech programme is four year. Candidate must have passed Class 12 or equivalent examination from a recognised board, securing minimum 50% aggregate of all subjects. English as a subject is compulsory. 

Candidates can access the JEE Advanced question papers on the official website of JEE Advanced - jeeadv.ac.in. The official website also hosts the previous year JEE Advanced question paper PDFs for both paper 1 and paper 2 of the exam.

Yes. There are two types of cutoff in JEE Advanced: Sectional cutoff and Overall cut off. Sectional cutoff means minimum marks needed in physics, chemistry and maths. Overall cutoff is the minimum marks needed in total to pass exam. In 2025, the sectional JEE Advanced cutoff was 5.83% (7 marks) to be included in the common rank list (CRL). The same in 2024 was 8.68% (10 marks).On the other hand overall cutoff in 2025 was 20.56% (74 marks).  In 2024, it was 30.34% (109 marks).

JEE Advanced is a challenging exam with a dynamic exam pattern. To cope with the dynamic nature of the exam pattern, it is advisable for the candiates to opt for both types of the JEE Advanced mock tests - full-length as well as sectional. The full length mock tests will help the candidates analyse their speed, time manegement and overall preparation for the exam. Whereas the sectional mocktests will give the candidates a more detailed analysis of their exam preparaion as they can understand their preparation level in each of the subject individually.

JEE Advanced 2025 was conducted by IIT Kanpur. In 2026, IIT Roorkee will hold the exam, and in 2027, IIT Delhi will be the organising institute.

JEE Advanced is considered one of the toughest exams in the world. With around 1.9 lakh candidates appearing for the exam on average, the pass percentage stands at 26% to 27%. The previous year's data for JEE Advanced pass percentage is given below:

Check below the number of candidates that took JEE Advanced paper 1 and paper 2 over the past few years:

• 2025 - 1,80,422 candidates took the exam
• 2024 - 1,80,200 candidates took the exam
• 2023 - 1,80,372 candidates took the exam
• 2022 - 11,55,538 candidates took the exam
• 2021 - 1,41,699 candidates took the exam
• 2020 - 1,50,838 candidates took the exam
• 2019 - 1,61,319 candidates took the exam
• 2018 - 11,55,158 candidates took the exam