JEE-Advanced is the second stage of Joint Entrance Examination. A student qualifying JEE Advanced is always considered as a bright student. Students will be awarded the admission in the most prestigious institutes of India. Getting admission into IITs is a dream for students for which they work hard for day and night. It is the entrance exam for students those who wish to get admission into their dream IIT institutes.  But a student cannot directly apply for JEE-Advanced.  The candidate have to appear in JEE Mains first.

To get admission into IITs, a student must clear the following checkpoints –

Checkpoint 1 :

The candidate should be among the top 150,000(all categories included) in the JEE Mains exam. The percentage for various categories is :

General – 50.5%

OBC-NCl – 27%

SC- 15%

ST- 7.5%

Checkpoint 2 :

The candidate qualified in JEE Mains, have also to qualify Jee Advanced. They must score a minimum cut off marks  according to their category to secure a rank. The category wise cut-off marks in JEE Advanced are –

Getting a rank does not mean that you will definitely admission into IIT. It only means that you are a qualified student of JEE Advanced. There are around 10,000 seats of all IIT and every year, more than 10,000 students qualify for Jee Advanced but due to limited number of seats, not all of them get into it. To get a place into IIT, the candidate must secure a rank much below 10,000 in Common Merit List.

Checkpoint 3 :

The candidate should have been age less than 25 for General and OBC-NCL category and less than 30 for SC, ST and PwD category. For example,

To appear in JEE Advanced 2015, the candidate should have been born on or after October 1, 1990 for General and OBC-NCL category and on or after October 1,1985 for SC, ST and PwD category.

Checkpoint 4 :

A candidate can attempt Jee Advanced a maximum of 2 times and that too in consecutive years. A candidate can only attempt in year in which he/she passes the board exam and in the next year.

Checkpoint 5:

A candidate cannot take his second attempt if he/she has taken admission in any of the IITs based on his first attempt.

Checkpoint 6 :

The candidate satisfying all the above points must also satisfy this last hurdle :

The candidate have to satisfy only 1 of the above whichever is lower.

The JEE Advanced examination will consists of 2 papers. Both Paper 1 and Paper 2 will be of 3 hours each.