Organizing Chairperson JEE (Advanced)-2025, IIT Kanpur has notified the eligibility criteria for Indian Nationals and OCI/PIO candidates who have secured OCI/PIO Card before 04.03.2021 for appearing for JEE (Advanced) 2025, for admission to the Undergraduate Programs at Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs). Some centrally funded institutes may use JEE (Advanced) ranks for admission to their Programs as per the separate Notifications to be issued by the concerned institutes.

All the candidates must simultaneously fulfil each and every one of the following five criteria for appearing for JEE (Advanced)-2025. 

Criterion A1- Performance in JEE (Main) 2025: Candidates should be among the top 2,50,000 successful candidates (including all categories) in B.E./B.Tech. Paper I of JEE (Main) 2025. The percentages of various categories of candidates to be shortlisted are as follows: 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.

Category-wise distribution of top 2,50,000 candidates will be as follows: (i) Open -96187, Open-PwD 5063 (Total- 101250) (ii) Gen-EWS -23750, Gen-EWS-PwD - 1250 (25000) (iii) OBC-NCL -64125, OBC-NCL-PwD -3375 (67500) (iv) SC -35625, SC-PwD- 1875 (37500) (v) ST -17812, ST-PwD -938 (18750).

The total number of candidates may be slightly greater than 2,50,000 in the presence of ‘tied’ ranks / scores in any category. 

OCI/PIO candidates who have secured OCI/PIO card before 04.03.2021 shall be considered as Indian nationals for the purpose of seat allocation to IITs. However, these candidates are not eligible for benefits of any kind of reservation (e.g., GEN-EWS, OBC-NCL, SC, ST) except for OPEN-PwD. 

Criterion A2- Age Limit: Candidates should have been born on or after October 1, 2000. Five years age relaxation is given to SC, ST, and PwD candidates. Those in these categories born on or after October 1, 1995 are eligible. 

Criterion A3 – Number of attempts: A candidate can attempt JEE (Advanced) maximum of three times in three consecutive years. 

Criterion A4 – Appearance in Class XII (or equivalent) examination: A candidate should have appeared for the Class XII (or equivalent) examination for the first time in either 2023 or 2024 or 2025 with Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics as compulsory subjects. 

Criterion A5 – 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 2024 or earlier, 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) 2025. Candidates who have been admitted to a preparatory course in any of the IITs for the first time in 2024 can appear in JEE (Advanced) 2025. The candidates who were allocated a seat in an IIT through JoSAA but did not report ‘online’ or (ii) withdrew before the last round of seat allotment or (iii) had their seat cancelled (for whatever reason) before the last round of seat allotment for IITs, are eligible to appear for JEE (Advanced) 2025. However, in all the above cases, the candidate is also required to fulfil the conditions mentioned from Criterion A1 to Criterion A4.

The related Information/Press release is available at https://jeeadv.ac.in/

The eligibility Criteria for foreign national candidates and for those OCI/PIO candidates who obtained their OCI/PIO Cards on or after 04.03.2021 for appearing for JEE (Advanced) 2025 has also been published at https://jeeadv.ac.in/