The National Testing Agency (NTA) on October 28 announced the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Main exam dates for 2025. Continuing similar trends, JEE Main will also be held in two phases this year. The first session is set to be held between January 22 and 31, 2025, while the next session will be held in April 2025. JEE Main is held for two papers – paper 1 (BE/ BTech) and paper 2 (BArch/ BPharm). The application process for JEE Main 2025 has also started on October 28 and will continue till November 22. Candidates can register for the first session at the official website - jeemain.nta.nic.in. The results will be announced on February 12, 2025. NTA has this year scrapped the optional questions in Section B from the JEE Main 2025 paper. The exam conducting body has also announced the exam dates of the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test Undergraduate (NEET UG) and Common University Entrance Test (CUET) in addition to the JEE Main 2025 dates. In 2024, JEE Main was held in January and April. The January session exam was held from January 24 to 31 and the April session exam was conducted between April 6 to 12. Last year, registration for JEE Main started on November 1 and continued for over a month. The city intimation slip was made available next. The total number of candidates registered in the January 2024 (session 1) examination was 12,21,624, of which 11,70,048 candidates appeared and a total of 11,79,569 candidates registered in April 2024 (session 2) exam, out of which 10,67,959 candidates appeared for the exams. The total number of registrations went up from 10.26 lakh in 2022 to 11.62 lakh in 2023.
