A paper that changes every year.

What it is for

Admission to the IITs, and from 2026 to IISc Bengaluru’s B.Tech programmes — the exam that decides an IIT seat.

Conducted by

One of the IITs, in rotation, on behalf of the Joint Admission Board. It publishes its own information brochure each year.

When

Once a year, usually in May or June, a few weeks after the second JEE (Main) session. Both papers on the same day.

How it is sat

A computer-based test at a centre: two papers of three hours each, both compulsory, with a break between them.

Where it falls in the year.

• Later
• Key date

1. April(later)

   JEE (Main) Session 2 ends and Paper 1 ranks are published.

2. Late April – May(later)

   Registration for the top 2,50,000 of JEE (Main) Paper 1.

3. May – JuneKey date(later)

   Both papers sat on one day, with a break between them.

4. JuneKey date(later)

   Results, then seat allocation through JoSAA.

The organising IIT publishes the exact dates in the year’s information brochure. We show the order of events rather than guess the days.

As the official JEE (Advanced) 2026 eligibility criteria state it. The organising IIT publishes the exact rules each year.

• You are among the top-ranked candidates of that year’s JEE (Main) Paper 1 — about 2.5 lakh in recent years, distributed across categories.
• You may attempt JEE (Advanced) at most twice, in two consecutive years.
• You appeared for Class 12, with Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics, for the first time in the year of the exam or the year before — for 2026, in 2025 or 2026.
• For 2026, you were born on or after 1 October 2001 — or 1 October 1996 for SC, ST and PwD candidates. You have not already been admitted to an IIT programme.

The pattern is not published in advance, so the honest guide is the recent papers themselves. Each paper covers Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics.

• Between 16 and 19 questions per subject in a paper over these years. We do not print a fixed count, because there is none.
• Marks are raw and counted across both papers; there is no percentile.
• Eligibility is by rank in JEE (Main), for at most two consecutive years. The organising IIT publishes the exact rules each year.

1. A

   Single correct

   Four options, one right. The familiar kind, but not the only one.

2. B

   One or more correct

   Any number of the four options may be right. Partial credit for a correct subset; a single wrong option loses marks.

3. C

   Numerical value

   Type the value, to the precision the paper asks — sometimes an integer, sometimes two decimal places.

4. D

   Matching lists

   Match entries in List-I to List-II; the combination is chosen from four options.

5. E

   Comprehension

   A passage or a set-up, followed by two or three questions that depend on it.

Several schemes in one paper. Each question carries its own, and knowing which is which decides how to attempt it.

66 chapters, as our plans, tests and analytics hold them. The exam body publishes the official syllabus each cycle; ours follows it and is versioned, so a change never surprises you mid-year.

Fifty-two weeks, counted back from your exam date. Start late and the phases shorten; they never skip.

1. Phase 1Weeks 1–32

   Build

   Every chapter once, in the order that makes the later ones easier. A chapter test the day you finish each.

2. Phase 2Weeks 33–40

   Consolidate

   Mixed practice across chapters, so nothing depends on remembering which chapter a question is from.

3. Phase 3Weeks 41–48

   Revise

   Revision weighted by how many marks each chapter carries, and your mistake book coming back on a schedule.

4. Phase 4Weeks 49–52

   Papers

   Full papers on the real pattern, at the real time of day, until exam day feels familiar.

How Nikaalle prepares you for JEE Advanced

• Every question kind, marked its own way

  Single, multiple-correct with partial credit, numerical, matching and comprehension — each marked as the paper marks it, so you learn how to attempt each.

• Papers built from what the exam has done

  Our Advanced mocks mix the kinds in the proportions the recent papers used, rather than guessing at a pattern that is deliberately unpublished.

• The deeper chapters

  Topics Advanced still examines that Main dropped are kept in your syllabus and your plan when you choose this exam.

• Main first, automatically

  Choosing Advanced adds JEE (Main) to your plan, because that is where the seat at this exam is won.

The bulletin is the authority on reporting time, identity documents and what you may carry. These are the habits that survive contact with the day.

1. 1Read the marking scheme printed for each section before you answer it. It changes by section and by year, and knowing it decides how to attempt.
2. 2For a multiple-correct question, mark only the options you can justify. Partial credit rewards leaving out what you are unsure of.
3. 3Numericals have carried no negative marking in the recent papers — commit to your best value rather than leaving a blank.
4. 4Between the papers, do not re-solve Paper 1. Eat, rest, and start Paper 2 fresh; the first paper is done.
5. 5Carry the admit card and the identity document the brochure names, and reach the centre before the reporting time.