1. Date of Birth

Only those candidates whose date of birth falls on or after October 01, 1994 are eligible. However, in the case of Scheduled Caste (SC), Scheduled Tribe (ST) and Persons with Disabilities (PwD) candidates, upper age limit is relaxed by 5 years, i.e. SC, ST and PwD candidates who are born on or after October 01, 1989 are eligible. Date of birth as recorded in the Secondary Education Board/University certificate will only be considered.

2. Year of Appearance in Qualifying Examination (QE)

Only those candidates who have passed their Class 12th Exam or any equivalent qualifying examination in 2017 or 2018; or those who are appearing in their Class 12^th Exam or any equivalent qualifying examination in 2019 are eligible to appear in JEE (Main) – 2019. Candidates who passed Class 12^th/Qualifying examination in 2016 or before as well as those who will appear in such examination in 2020 or later are not eligible to appear in JEE Main 2019. Candidates who appeared in class 12^th/equivalent qualifying Examinations in 2016, did not pass in 2016, but passed in 2017 are also not eligible to appear in JEE Main 2019.

3. Number of subjects in the Qualifying Examination (QE)

Candidates must have taken at least five subjects in class 12^th/ qualifying examination in order to be eligible for writing JEE Main 2019. The candidates who have taken four subjects are not permitted to write JEE Main 2019 and if such candidates appear in JEE Main 2019 by furnishing wrong information, their rank/result will not be declared.

4. Number of Attempts

The number of attempts which a candidate can avail at JEE Main shall be limited to 03 (three).

5. No. of Attempts and Age limit for the states of Madhya Pradesh and Odisha

Since the states of Madhya Pradesh, Nagaland and Odisha have joined JEE (Main) system from 2014, the age limit for admission to institutions in these states which were earlier admitting candidates based on their state level examinations, will be as per their past practice only. The number of attempts in such cases will also remain same as per their past practice. This will however be obviously not applicable for admission to IITs/NITs/IIITs/CFTIs.

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