JEE Advanced Eligibility Criteria – Check whether you are eligible.

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JEE Advanced is the next step of JEE Mains. Only, those candidates who qualify the Mains are eligible to appear in the Advanced Exam (excluding Foreign Nationals). This examination will form the basis for admission to various undergraduate courses in IITs and ISM. Unlike JEE Mains, JEE Advanced is conducted by one of the IIT’s on a rotation basis. IIT Kanpur is responsible for conducting JEE Advanced exam this year for admission to 23 IITs for 12,428 seats, which include Indian School of Mines (ISM), Dhanbad.

Well, this is not the only criteria to appear in the JEE Advanced 2018 Exam! There are a lot many other factors considered while choosing up the most deserving candidates for final selection round of IIT JEE.

All the important aspects & queries that a candidate might face while applying for JEE Advanced have been covered in the article. Let’s have a look!

To easily grasp the details Eligibility Criteria for JEE Advanced 2018 is divided into various aspects such as:

JEE Advanced Eligibility Criteria - Foreign Nationals

Candidates who are NOT citizens of India (by birth or naturalized), do not belong to OCI/PIO category, and whose parents are not citizens of India and do not come under OCI/PIO category at the time of registering for JEE Advanced 2018 are treated as foreign nationals.

Foreign nationals are outside the domain of reservation of seats under the OBC-NCL, SC, ST and PwD (Persons with Disability) categories as instructed by the government of India. Also, the Foreign Nations can directly appear for JEE Advanced without qualifying JEE Mains.

All other eligibility criteria like Age limit, Appearance in Class XII (or equivalent) examination, Earlier admission at IITs and No. of Attempts remains same. However, there are a slight changes in the criteria of Performance in Class XII (or equivalent) board examination listed as follows:

• For calculation of the total marks for five subjects, if the marks awarded in a subject is not out of 100, then the marks will be scaled (up or down) to 100 so that the total aggregate marks is out of 500.
• If a Board awards only letter grades without providing an equivalent percentage of marks on the grade sheet, the candidate should obtain a certificate from the Board specifying the equivalent marks and submit it at the time of acceptance of the allocated seat. In case such a certificate is not provided, the decision taken by the Joint Implementation Committee of JEE (Advanced) 2018 will be final.
• In case any of the subjects Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics and Language are not evaluated in the final year (e.g., in a 3-year diploma course), then the marks for the same subject from the previous year/s will be used for calculating percentage of aggregate marks.
• For candidates who appeared in the Class XII (or equivalent) Board examination for the first time in 2017 and reappeared in ALL subjects (for whatsoever reason) in 2018, the best of the two performances will be considered.
• If a Board gives aggregate marks considering both Class XI and Class XII examinations (in the 10+2 system), then only Class XII marks will be considered. If a Board gives aggregate marks considering the results of all three years of a 3-year diploma or courses of equivalent duration, then only the marks scored in the final year will be considered. Similarly, for Boards which follow a semester system, the marks scored in the final two semesters will be considered.
• If a Board does not give marks scored in individual subjects but gives only the aggregate marks, then the aggregate marks given by the Board will be considered as such.

Equivalent Exam to appear in JEE Mains?

1. 12^th Board Exam
2. Intermediate or 2 Year Pre-University Examination recognized by a Board/University
3. Final Examination of 2 Year Course of Joint Services Wing of NDA.
4. NIOS (National Institute of Open Schooling) Senior Secondary School Examination.
5. Any School/Board/University Exam in India/Foreign Country recognized by Associate of Indian Universities (AIU).

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