IIT Kanpur releases new Eligibility Criteria for JEE Advanced 2025

IIT Kanpur, the exam conducting authority for JEE Advanced 2025, has released new Eligibility Criteria for this year’s entrance exam, which is applicable for both local and foreign candidates

JEE Advanced 2025: IIT Kanpur, the exam conducting authority for JEE Advanced 2025, has released new Eligibility Criteria for this year’s entrance exam, which is applicable for both local and foreign candidates.

JEE Advanced is held every year for admission in IITs, NITs and other premium institutions.

The responsibly to conduct JEE Advanced is given on one of the IITs. This year IIT Kanpur is responsible to conduct JEE Advanced 2025.

IIT Kanpur has not yet confirmed the date and schedule of JEE Advanced 2025. The premium institution however is released new eligibility criteria for the annual entrance test.

IIT Kanpur has published two different PDF files – one containing JEE Advanced 2025 Eligibility Criteria for Indian Nationals, and the other containing JEE Advanced 2025 Eligibility Criteria for Foreign Nationals.

JEE Advanced 2025 Eligibility Criteria for Indian Nationals

IIT Kanpur published 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.

The document contains five Criterions:

• 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 (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.
• 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, i.e. these candidates should have been born on or after October 1, 1995.
• Criterion A3: Number of attempts
• A candidate can attempt JEE (Advanced) maximum of three times in three consecutive years.
• Criterion A4: Appearance in XIIth or equivalent exam
• 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.

JEE Advanced 2025 Eligibility Criteria for Foreign Nationals

• Candidates who are NOT citizens of India (by birth or naturalized) (but not Overseas Citizens of India / Persons of Indian Origin (OCI/PIO) candidates who have secured OCI/PIO card before 04.03.2021) shall be considered as FOREIGN NATIONALS.
• The foreign national candidates, at the time of registering for JEE (Advanced) 2025 are NOT required to write JEE (Main) 2025 and may register for JEE (Advanced) 2025 directly subject to fulfilment of other eligibility criteria mentioned below.
• All foreign national candidates will be considered in addition to, and not as a part of the 2,50,000 Indian national candidates who qualify for appearing in JEE (Advanced) 2025.

Candidates are advised to visit the JEE Advanced official website “jeeadv.ac.in” for the full details of the eligibility criteria.

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