The Centre on Tuesday announced the exam dates for the pending JEE Main (April and May) sessions 2021. While the April session will be conducted from July 20-25, the May schedule will be held from July 27-August 2. The NEET-UG 2021 aspirants will, however, have to wait for the fresh schedule by the end of this week.
Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank announced the much awaited NTA-conducted JEE Main exam schedule.
Besides to ensure social distancing amid the pandemic and follow the SOPs, the NTA has also increased the number of test centres for JEE Main (April and May) sessions. Earlier, the total number of test centres was 660. The test centres have now been increased to 828. Also the test cities have been increased from 232 to 334.
As per the notification announced by Pokhriyal, the registration window has been reopened for candidates who could not apply for the exams earlier in the wake of corona or any other eventuality.
“Candidates can apply at jeemain.nta.nic.in. Those who wish to apply for the April session will be able to apply from tonight (July 6) to July 8. The JEE Main (May) session registrations will be opened from July 9-12. Candidates will also be able to change their exam centres,” Pokhriyal made the announcement through social media platforms.
As per the information shared by the NTA, a total of 6.80 lakh candidates have already been registered for JEE Main April 2021. For the May session, 6.09 candidates have registered. The registration number is executed to go higher as the application windows have been reopened for both April and May sessions this week as announced.
It is to be noted the first session of JEE Main 2021 was conducted from February 23-26 and a total of 6.61 lakh (6,61,776) candidates had registered for the February session this year. A total of six students scored 100 percentile in the February session.
The second session was conducted from March 15 to 18. A total of 6.19 lakh (6,19,638) candidates had registered for the March session. In the March session, a total of 13 candidates had scored 100 percentile.
The JEE Main 2020 examination was conducted from September 1-6 last year. For JEE Main 2020 January exam, a total of 9,21,261 had registered for the BTech exam. The NTA had witnessed 7.12 per cent decrease in the total number of candidates who registered for the paper 1 of JEE Main 2020 April session as compared to the January session.