JEE Main 2025: NTA paper pattern revised; updates on exam date, registration at jeemain.nta.nic.in

NEW DELHI: The Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Main 2025 exam date will be announced soon on the official website, jeemain.nta.nic.in. The National Testing Agency (NTA) will release the NTA exam calendar 2025 containing the exam date at nta.ac.in. JEE Main 2025 registration is expected to begin in November.

NTA will likely release the JEE Main 2025 information bulletin containing details such as registration date, eligibility, exam pattern, marking scheme, syllabus, admit card date, answer key, result this month.

In the latest update, NTA has discontinued the optional questions in section B of all subjects in JEE Main 2025 papers including paper 1 for BE, BTech and paper 2 for BArch and BPlanning. The exam will be held in two sessions – session 1 and session 2. The first session will be administered in January last week as per a Goa board notification on board exams 2025. Last year, the BTech entrance exam was conducted for a duration of three hours and was administered in two shifts -- shift 1 from 9 am to 12 noon and shift 2 from 3 pm to 6 pm.

JEE Main exam will be held for admission to engineering and architecture programmes offered by the National Institutes of Technology (NITs), Indian Institutes of Informational Technology (IIITs) and other government and private institutions. Those who qualify JEE Mains 2025 will be eligible to appear for JEE Advanced which is a prerequisite for BTech admissions at the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs).