JEE Advanced

Yes. The foreign national candidates who have studied or are studying in India/abroad at 10+2 level or equivalent at the time of registering for JEE Advanced are NOT required to write JEE Main and may register for JEE Advanced directly subject to fulfilment of other eligibility criteria. These candidates are outside the ambit of reservation of seats under the GEN-EWS, OBC-NCL, SC, ST, and PwD categories / sub-categories, as specified herein. There are no separate supernumerary seats or sub-category for females in the foreign national supernumerary seats.

NO. As per the decision dated February 03, 2023 passed by the Hon'ble Supreme Court of India in Writ Petition (Civil) 891 / 2021, persons who have secured the OCI/PIO card subsequent to 04 March 2021 will NOT be considered as Indian national and will be considered as foreign national.

In JEE Advanced exam, the chapters that are asked very frequently over the years in Physics include:

• Waves & Sound
• Ray & Wave Optics
• Fluids
• EM Waves
• Thermodynamics
• Modern Physics
• Kinematics
• Gravitation & Electrostatics

In the Chemistry section of the JEE Advanced exam, the topics that are frequently aske in the exam over the years are: 

• p-block
• Chemical bonding
• Coordination compounds
• In Physical Chemistry questions covered Electrochemistry, Ionic & Chemical Equilibrium, Electrochemistry & Surface Chemistry
• In Organic Chemistry, questions mostly asked from Aldehyde & Ketones, Polymers, Biomolecules

Over the year, the questions in JEE Advanced in the Maths section are asked from topics like:

• Functions
• Limits
• Application of Derivatives
• Definite Integrals
• Area under Curve
• Inverse Trigonometric functions
• Vectors
• 3D Geometry
• Circle, Parabola
• Quadratic Equations
• Permutation & Combination
• Probability

The toughness of a section in the JEE Advanced exam depend on the preparation level of the candidates. However, as per the previous year analysis and student raction of the candidates about the JEE Advaced exam, Maths is considered tough as the section is generally lenthy and the calculation take a lot of time. Maths is followed by Physics when it comes to difficulty and Chemistry is generally ranked as the easisest section.

The JEE Advanced exam centre is allotted based on the choices of exam city filled by the candidates in the application form of the exam. The candidates are allotted a exam centre in the first city out of all the four cities they submitted with the form as choice of exam city to appear in the exam. In rare cases, and due to unforeseen circumstances, candidates can be allotted exam centre in rest if the three choices filled.

Candidates can check their allotted exam city and exam centre address in the JEE Advanced admit card. The candidates are allotted exam centre in one city out of their preferred choices of the four cities submitted with the application form. Usually, the centre is allotted in the first preferred city. The candidates can check the exam centre name and the full address of the centre allotted on the admit card issue a few days before the exam.

JEE Advanced exam is held across all states in India in multiple exam centres in each state. Candidates are allowed to select their preferred 4 cities in the JEE Advanced application form to appear in the computer based test. The exam is also held at selected foreign cities.

In 2025, JEE Advanced was held across 224 locations, including 222 cities in India and two international centres in Abu Dhabi and Kathmandu. During the JEE Advanced registration, candidates are required to select up to ten preferred cities.