Union Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank on Wednesday announced the exam schedule for the 2021 NTA Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Main test. These sessions of the all-India engineering exams were postponed earlier this year. The minister made the announcement via a live session.
The third session of the JEE Main, which is usually held in April, will now be conducted from July 20-25. Meanwhile, the fourth and last session of the entrance exams which are usually held in May will be now conducted from July 25 to 2 August.
The registration window has once again opened for students who had missed the registration process earlier.
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Candidates who wish to register can go to jeemain.nta.nic.in to apply. The window for registering for the April session will be opened from July 6 to July 8.
For the fourth session, the JEE Main (May) session registrations will be open from July 9-12. Candidates will also be able to change their exam centres.
A total of 6.80 lakh students have already registered themselves for the examination, as per the information shared by NTA.
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For the May session, 6.09 lakh candidates have registered. The registration number is executed to go higher as the application windows have been reopened for both April and May sessions.
The first session of JEE exam was conducted in February from 23-26. Back then, a total of 6.61 lakh (6,61,776) candidates had registered. Out of that, 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.
