JEE-Mains for admission to engineering colleges will be held four times a year starting February 2021 to offer flexibility to students.
JEE Main 2021: The application process for JEE Main 2021 started from December 16 and interested candidates can apply till January 16 at jeemain.nta.nic.in. The last date to pay the fees is January 17. Candidates who have cleared plus 2 with at least five subjects can apply for the engineering entrance.
Meanwhile, Union Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank on Wednesday said that the JEE-Mains for admission to engineering colleges will be held four times a year starting 2021 to offer flexibility to students and a chance to improve their scores.
"Conducting JEE Mains Examination-2021 in four sessions will give multiple opportunities to the candidates to improve their scores in the examination if they are not able to give their best in one attempt," the Minister said.
He further added that in case a candidate has a Board Examination in a particular month or is unable to appear due to COVID-19, the candidate had the option of choosing a different month to take the exam.
JEE Main 2021: Exam dates and time
The first edition of the Joint Entrance Examination-Mains (JEE-Mains) will be held from February 23 to 26, followed by rounds in March, April and May.
The next sessions of the exam will take place between March 15-18, April 27-30 and May 24-27. The results will be declared within five days from the last date of exams.
The exam will be held in two shifts, morning session from 9 am to 12 pm, afternoon shift from 3 pm to 6 pm.
JEE Main 2021: Registration process
The 'Online' mode will be available for candidates only between December 16 to January 16, while the fees can be paid online by January 17.
To apply, visit jeemain.nta.nic.in or click on Apply for JEE Main 2021 link here.
Fees can be paid for all 4 sessions at the same time. However, it can be taken forward to another session. In case a candidate does not want to appear in the session for which fee has already been paid, it will be refunded by NTA, provided the request is received during the application process of the Session from which the candidate wants to withdraw.
JEE Main 2021: Paper pattern
Students will be given a choice to answer 75 questions -- 25 each in physics, chemistry and mathematics -- out of 90 in the JEE-Mains paper. In the exam paper of 90 questions, 30 questions each will be from physics, chemistry and mathematics.
The choice will be given in Section B (numerical), which will not have any negative marking.
JEE Mains 2021: Key changes
For the first time ever, the examination for admission into engineering institutions in the country will be conducted in 13 languages - Assamese, Bengali, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu, Hindi, English and Gujarati.
Candidates would not have to appear in all four sessions. If they did, however, decide to appear in more than one session, then the best of their four sessions NTA scores would be considered in the ranking.
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