The Joint Entrance Examination – Advanced (JEE–Advanced) is an academic competitive examination held annually in India that tests the skills and knowledge of applicants in physics, chemistry and mathematics. It serves as the second stage of the Joint Entrance Examination. It is the primary assessment for entrance to the IITs and various engineering colleges in India. It is organised by one of the seven selected Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs): IIT Roorkee, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Delhi, IIT Kanpur, IIT Bombay, IIT Madras, and IIT Guwahati, under the guidance of the Joint Admission Board (JAB) on a round-robin rotation pattern for the qualifying candidates of the Joint Entrance Examination – Main (exempted for foreign nationals and candidates who have secured OCI/PIO cards on or after 04–03–2021). The examination logistics are co-ordinated by seven zonal IITs, which include IIT Roorkee, IIT Bhubaneswar / IIT Kharagpur (taking turns every alternate year), IIT Delhi, IIT Kanpur, IIT Bombay, IIT Madras / IIT Hyderabad (taking turns every alternate year), and IIT Guwahati. All 23 IITs participate in setting of the paper under the JAB. JEE–Advanced used to be the sole prerequisite for admission to the IITs' bachelor's programs before the introduction of NCET(ITEP), UCEED, online B.S. and Olympiad entries, but seats through these new media are very low. The JEE–Advanced score is also used as a possible basis for admission by Indian applicants to non-Indian universities such as the University of Cambridge and the National University of Singapore. High school students from across India typically prepare for several years to take this exam, and a large percentage attend coaching institutes. Each year, around 1.5 million students appear for JEE Main, with 250 thousand qualifying to take JEE Advanced for about 19 thousand seats at the IITs and IISc.
History
Before the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), India had a few engineering colleges. These colleges used different ways to admit students. Some used school marks while and others had their own tests. The quality of education and the ways to get into college were not the same across India. The Indian government wanted to make better engineers. The first institute among IITs, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, started in 1951. In its initial years before 1961, students were admitted based on their academic results, followed by an interview in several locations across the country. From 1955 to 1960, admissions to Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur were conducted via a national examination. Academic disciplines were allotted to the students via interviews and counselling sessions held at Kharagpur. The IIT-JEE was first conducted in 1961 as Common Entrance Exam (CEE), coinciding with the 1961 IIT Act. This was the start of a big change in how students got into IITs. The JEE had papers in Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics. It also had a paper in English. Students from all over India took the same test. In 1978, the English paper was not considered when ranking participants' performance in the examination. In 1988, the English test was discontinued. In 1997, the IIT-JEE was conducted twice after the question paper was leaked in some locations. Between 2000 and 2005, an additional screening test was used alongside the main examination, intended to reduce pressure on the main examination by allowing only about 20,000 top candidates to appear for the examination, out of more than 450,000 applicants. In 2002, an additional exam called the AIEEE was introduced, and it was used for admissions to many institutions of national importance other than the IITs. In June 2005, The Hindu newspaper led a campaign for reforming the IIT-JEE to eradicate the "coaching mania" and to improve gender and socio-economic diversity. Two possible solutions were proposed - either a convergence between the screening test and the All India Engineering Entrance Examination (AIEEE), or a two-tier examination, where ranks from the first tier can be used to gain admission to the NITs and other engineering colleges in the country. In September 2005, the group of directors of all the IITs announced significant revisions to the examination. These were implemented 2006 onward. The revised examination consisted of a single objective test, replacing and abolishing the earlier two-test system with screener. In the revised examination, to be eligible for taking it, candidates in the general category had to obtain at least 60% aggregate marks in the 12th-grade examinations organized by various educational boards of India, while candidates belonging to Scheduled Castes (SC), Scheduled Tribes (ST), and Persons With Disabilities (PwD) categories needed a minimum score of 55%. In 2008, the director and the dean of IIT Madras proposed further revisions to the examination, arguing that coaching institutes were "enabling many among the less-than-best students to crack the test and keeping girls from qualifying". They expressed concern that the present system did not allow for applicants' 12 years of schooling to have a bearing on admissions into the IITs. In 2008, the Indian Institutes of Technology began offering their admission tests in Dubai. Annually, the number of candidates for the examination in Dubai varies between 200 and 220. On 28 May 2012, the AIEEE was officially renamed JEE-Main, and IIT-JEE was renamed JEE–Advanced; the JEE-Main had become the screening exam for JEE–Advanced; the first test with this change was conducted in 2013. In 2018, the JEE–Advanced exam started being conducted online.
Qualifying percentage (As of JEE Advanced 2024)
Minimum percentage of aggregate/subject marks may be lowered subsequently considering the toughness of the paper and the need of students.
Number of applicants by year
Organizing institute The JEE – Advanced exam is conducted by the seven zonal Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs): IIT Roorkee, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Delhi, IIT Kanpur, IIT Bombay, IIT Madras and IIT Guwahati on a rotating basis. This list shows the organizers of the exam in recent years.
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