JEE Advanced Eligibility
JEE (Advanced) eligibility criteria for the candidates has been announced by IIT-Guwahati, the conducting authority. The have established 5 prerequisites, and candidates must meet all of them in order to appear for the advanced engineering examination.
Criteria include:
- Criterion 1 – Performance in JEE (Main)
- Criterion 2 – Age limit
- Criterion 3 – Number of attempts
- Criterion 4 – Appearance in Class XII (or equivalent) examination
- Criterion 5 – Earlier admission at IITs
Criterion 1 - Performance in JEE Main
The candidate must meet the first and most crucial condition of being one of the top 2,50,000 qualifying candidates (this comprises students of all categories) in the JEE (Main) B.E./ B.Tech. Paper. The percentages of candidates who can be shortlisted by category are provided in the table below as estimates.
| Category | Percentage |
| OPEN | 40.5% |
| GEN-EWS | 10% |
| OBC-NCL | 27% |
| SC | 15% |
| ST | 7.5% |
*PwD applicants are eligible for a 5% horizontal reservation in each of the 5 categories.
Distribution of top 2,50,000* Candidates by Category
| Order | Category | Number of Candidates | |
| 1 | OPEN | 9618 | 101250 |
| 2 | OPEN-PwD | 5063 | |
| 3 | GEN-EWS | 23750 | 25000 |
| 4 | GEN-EWS-PwD | 1250 | |
| 5 | OBC-NCL | 64125 | 67500 |
| 6 | OBC-NCL-PwD | 3375 | |
| 7 | SC | 35625 | 37500 |
| 8 | SC-PwD | 1875 | |
| 9 | ST | 17812 | 18750 |
| 10 | ST-PwD | 938 | |
*If there are “tied” ranks/scores in any category, the total number of candidates may increase somewhat from 2,50,000.
Criterion 2: Age Limit
Candidates born on or after 1st October 1998 are eligible for JEE (Advanced). However, SC, ST, and PwD candidates have 5 years of relaxation, which means that the candidates born on or after 1st October 1993 are eligible to apply for the advanced examination.
Criterion 3: Number of attempts
JEE (Advanced) may only be taken twice in two consecutive years.
Criterion 4: Class XII or Equivalent Qualification
- Any candidate who appeared or will appear in Class XII or equivalent examination for the first time in 2022 or 2023 with the subjects Physics, Chemistry,Mathematics, A Language and any other subject from the mentioned four is eligible to take JEE (Advanced) 2023.
- Candidates who appeared in Class XII (or equivalent) for the first time in 2021 or before are ineligible to sit for JEE (Advanced) 2023 unless they are covered by the one-time special measure.
Note: When we say ‘appeared in Class XII (or equivalent) examination,’ we imply that the board in question released the results for that year, regardless of whether or not the exam was held. Even if the result of a certain candidate is withheld, it will be counted as an appearance. However, there are two circumstances that follow, if the examination board of Class XII or equivalant:
Criterion 5 – Earlier admission at IITs
The following candidates are eligible to participate in JEE Advanced in 2023.
- Candidates who first enrol in a prep course at any IIT in 2022 are eligible to sit the JEE Advanced exam in 2023.
A seat at an IIT had been offered to them through JoSAA 2022, however
The following scenarios could apply to you:
(i) you failed to report “online” or at any “reporting centre”;
(ii) you withdrew before the final round of seat allocation; or
(iii) your seat was cancelled (for whatever reason) before the final round of seat allocation for IITs.
