JEE Advanced Eligibility Criteria 2025: Check Nationality, Age Limit, Aggregate Score & Qualifications

The number of attempts as per the JEE Advanced eligibility criteria 2025 has been limited to a maximum of ‘2 times in 2 consecutive years’ by the exam conducting body i.e., IIT Kanpur. Students who have qualified 10+2 or have appeared in the equivalent examination are eligible. Also, no minimum marks are required to appear for the exam. Candidates who wish to apply for the entrance test must meet the prescribed JEE Advanced exam eligibility criteria before proceeding for the registration.

Read the following article to get in-depth information of JEE Advanced exam eligibility criteria 2025 such as age requirements, educational qualification, number of attempts, and other important details.

The eligibility criteria of JEE Advanced 2025 comprises some measures decided by the exam conducting body that must be checked and fulfilled by the applicants before registration procedure. JEE Advanced exam eligibility criteria has been announced by the IIT Kanpur. The common eligibility requirements for both Indian and Foreign Nationals in order to appear for JEE Advanced exam 2025 are as follows:

Minimum Educational Qualification

• Qualified or appeared in Class 12^th or equivalent examination.

As per the JEE Advanced eligibility criteria 2025, candidates can qualify any one of the below-given exams that are considered equivalent to 12^th standard.

• 12^th from CBSE that is recognised by Association of Indian Universities (AIU).
• Intermediate or 2 years of PUC exam conducted by any board or university by the AIU.
• Final exam of 2 year course of the joint services wing of NDA.
• Higher Secondary Examination conducted by NIOS with at least 5 subjects.
• Any public School / Board / University exam in India or in foreign country which is recognized as equivalent to the 10+2 system by the AIU.
• H.S.C vocational exam.
• 3 years duration diploma recognized by AICTE or a State Board of Technical Education.
• General Certificate Education (GCE) exam (London, Cambridge or Sri Lanka) at the Advanced (A) level.
• HSC exam of the Cambridge University / International Baccalaureate Diploma of the International Baccalaureate Office, Geneva.
• Passed 12^th or equivalent exam outside the country or from a Board not specified above must produce a certificate from AIU to the effect that the examination they have passed is equivalent to the class 12^th exam.
• If class 12^th exam is not a public examination, then the candidate must have qualified at least one public exam (Board or Pre-University) earlier.

Age Limit

• Indian Nationals and Foreign Nationals / OCI / PIO Candidates should be born on or before 1^st October, 2000.
• Age relaxation of 5 years for SC, ST, and PwD candidates born before 1^st October, 1995.

Nationality

• Both Indian and Foreign Nationals candidates are eligible to apply.

The conducting body of JEE Advanced 2025 has prescribed the eligibility criteria which is required to appear for the examination. The eligibility for Indian Nationals and OCI / PIO candidates is divided into 5 criteria that are below-discussed in detail:

Criteria A1: JEE Main 2025 Performance

The appearing candidates of JEE Advanced 2025 must have secured a rank among top 2,50,000 candidates in JEE Main 2025 in B.E / B.Tech Paper I. There is category-wise distribution of top 2,50,000 candidates who are shortlisted in the following major 6 categories (as per the division on the basis of percentage):

• 10% for GEN-EWS
• 27% for OBC-NCL
• 15% for SC
• 7.5% for ST
• 40.5% is OPEN for all
• 5% horizontal reservation (for PwD)

Criteria A2: Age Limit

• The age limit for all the candidates is mentioned in the overview section.

Criteria A3: Number of Attempts

• A candidate can attempt for maximum 2 times in 2 consecutive years for JEE Advanced 2025.

Criteria A4: Appearance in 12^th or equivalent qualifying examination

• A candidate must have qualified or appearing for class 12^th or equivalent qualifying examination for the first time in either 2023 / 2024 / 2025 with compulsory subjects such as Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics.

Criteria A5: Earlier Admission at IIT

• A candidate should not have been admitted to an IIT under any academic discipline listed in JoSAA business rules 2024 or earlier, either the candidate continued the program / accepted a seat in IIT by reporting “online” / at a “reporting centre” in the past.
• Students whose admission got cancelled after joining any IIT will also not be eligible to appear for JEE Advanced 2025.
• Candidates who have been admitted to a preparatory course in any IIT for 1^st time in 2024 can appear for JEE Advanced 2025.
• The students who got a seat in IIT through JoSAA but did not report “online” / withdrew the seat before the last round of seat allotment / had their seat cancelled in IIT before the final round of allotment are eligible to appear for JEE Advanced 2025.

* OCI/PIO candidates shall be required to be in Open and Open-PwD rank lists in JEE (Main) 2025 to appear for JEE Advanced 2025.

Note: Along with the above-mentioned criteria, the candidates also need to fulfil all the criteria from A1 to A4.

There are total 4 eligibility criteria that are discussed in this section which the Foreign Nationals and OCI / PIO candidates need to fulfil:

Criteria B1: Age Limit

• As mentioned above in A1.

* In countries where the minimum time period in the armed or allied forces is mandatory before / after the 12^th or equivalent exam, the candidate will get a relaxation of the required number of years. For such conditions, the candidate has to upload a Certificate / Testimonial issued by the competent authority at the time of registration.

Note: The Criteria B2 (Number of attempts), Criteria B3 (Appearance in Class 12^th (or equivalent) Examination) and Criteria B4 (Earlier admission at IIT) are similar to the above mentioned criteria from A3 to A5.

Special Notes to Consider:

Candidates who are not citizens of India by birth or naturalised (but not OCI / PIO candidates who have secured the card before 04.03.2021) shall be considered under Foreign Nationals.

Such candidates are not required to appear for JEE (Main) 2025 to register in JEE Advanced 2025. They can apply / register directly and must fulfil the eligibility criteria.

The following are some reservation guidelines for the candidates appearing for JEE Advanced 2025:

• OCI/PIO Candidates who have secured the OCI / PIO card before 04.03.2021 shall be considered as Indian Nationals for seat allocation purposes to IITs.

* The (GEN / EWS /OBC / NCL / SC / ST) candidates will not be eligible for any kind of reservation benefits (except OPEN PwD).

• The seats allotted to the foreign national candidates will be supernumerary with a cap of 10% of total numbers of seats in every course. These candidates will not be considered for the reservation seats under the General / EWS / OBC / NCL / SC / ST / PwD categories and sub-categories.

* After the successful completion of JEE Advanced registration 2025, candidates can start the preparation for JEE Advanced exam. With the help of JEE Advanced syllabus 2025 and JEE Advanced exam pattern 2025, candidates can prepare effectively.