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Kohima, Jan. 19 (EMN): In what may come as relief to students, the Union Education Ministry has announced that the eligibility criteria to obtain to write Joint Entrance Examination-Main (JEE) examinations, has been waived off for the next academic year 2021-22.
“Considering the decision taken for IIT-JEE (Advanced) and in line with the decision taken for the last academic year, it has been decided to waive off the 75% marks (in class 12 exam) eligibility criteria under Joint Entrance Examination (Main) for the next academic year 2021-2022 in respect of NITs, IIITs, SPAs and other CFTIs, whose admissions are based on JEE (Main),” Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank said on Tuesday.
The admissions to various undergraduate (UG) programmes of the National Institutes of Technology (NITs), Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology (IIEST), Shibpur (West Bengal) and other Centrally Funded Technical Institutions (CFTIs - excluding IITs) are made on the basis of ranks / merit secured by the candidates in JEE (Main) conducted by the National Testing Agency (NTA), the Ministry stated.
For the candidates to qualify for admissions to IITs / NITs / IIITs and such other CFT whose admissions are based on the JEE ranks, they should secure at least 75% marks in the class12 exam, or be in the top 20 percentile in the class 12 exam conducted by the respective Boards. For SC/ST students, the qualifying mark in class 12 exams is 65%, it added.
The syllabus of JEE and NEET will remain unchanged for the year 2021. However, unlike previous years, the candidates will have options to answer the questions in JEE and NEET examinations this year.
The syllabus for JEE (Main 2021) will remain the same as the previous year. However, students would be given a choice to answer 75 questions (25 questions each in Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics) out of 90 questions (30 questions each in Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics). In JEE (Main) 2020, there were 75 questions all of which had to be answered by the candidates (25 questions each in Physics, Chemistry & Mathematics), the Ministry said. The exact pattern for NEET (UG) 2021 is yet to be announced. However, in view of reduction of syllabus by some boards across the country, the NEET (UG) 2021 question paper will also have options on the lines of JEE (Main).