JEE Advanced

The JEE Advanced AAT is required for admission to BArch programs at IIT Varanasi, IIT Roorkee, and IIT Kharagpur. To gain admission to architecture at any of these IITs, candidates must first qualify for JEE Main, followed by JEE Advanced, and then pass the AAT.

The Architecture Aptitude Test (AAT) is held annually for candidates seeking admission to the BArch program at IIT Kharagpur, IIT Varanasi, and IIT Roorkee. A key eligibility requirement for taking the AAT is qualifying the JEE Advanced exam. It’s important to note that admission to undergraduate architecture courses is determined by the candidate's rank in JEE Advanced, not by their AAT score or rank but qualifying AAT is mandatory.

Candidates can check the answers to all questions asked in JEE Advanced question papers on the official website - jeeadv.ac.in. The answers to all questions are officially uploaded and are called the answer keys. These answer skeys have the correct answers to all the questions that come in the exam.

The JEE Advanced answer keys can be used to check the correct answers to all questions asked in the exam. This enables the candidates to calculate the probable score in the exam even before the result is declared. Candidates can estimate their performance in the exam and their chances of qualifying the JEE Advanced examinations.

The questions in JEE Advanced exam are asked in both English and in Hindi. Even the question papers uploaded on the official website are in both Hindi and English language.

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.

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: