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Joint Entrance Examination (Main)
Registration opens
Based on JEE Main 2026's 31 Oct opening. 2027 bulletin not yet released.
~Oct 2026
Provisional
Registration closes
Based on JEE Main 2026's 27 Nov close. 2027 bulletin not yet released.
~Nov 2026
Provisional
Exam date
22 Jan 2027
Exam date
NTA Public Notice dated 16 Sept 2026: Session 1 held across 22, 23, 24, 28, 29, 30 Jan 2027, with 31 Jan as a buffer date (see exam_date_end for the last scheduled sitting day, buffer not separately modeled). Confirmed via cracku.in, shiksha.com and notifyhere.com, all citing the same NTA notice.
22 Jan 2027
Application fee
₹1000(₹500 SC/ST/reserved)
Provisional - JEE Main 1 2026 fee
Official website
https://jeemain.nta.nic.inThe Joint Entrance Examination (Main) is India's national engineering entrance exam, conducted by the National Testing Agency (NTA). It's the qualifying exam for admission to the NITs, IIITs, and other centrally-funded technical institutes (via JoSAA counselling), and it also gates entry to JEE Advanced - the separate exam that decides admission to the IITs. It's held twice a year (January and April sessions); your better score across the two counts.
Mode
Computer-based test (CBT)
Duration
3 hours (4 hours for PwD candidates)
Questions
75 - 25 each in Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics
Total marks
300
Marking scheme
+4 correct / -1 incorrect
Sections
JoSAA centralized counselling allocates NIT/IIIT/GFTI seats by JEE Main rank, category, and preference. Separately, your JEE Main rank must clear a cutoff to even sit for JEE Advanced, which is the exam that actually decides IIT admission.
The official notification for this cycle hasn’t been released yet, so there’s nothing to verify against - everything above is an estimate based on past years. Always confirm on the official website once it’s released.
