Joint Entrance Examination – Advanced
Joint Entrance Examination – Advanced (JEE-Advanced) (formerly the Indian Institute of Technology - Joint Entrance Examination (IIT-JEE)), is an academic examination held annually in India. It is organised by one of the seven zonal IITs (IIT Roorkee, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Delhi, IIT Kanpur, IIT Bombay, IIT Madras, and IIT Guwahati) under the guidance of the Joint Admission Board (JAB) on a round-robin rotation pattern for the qualifying candidates of the JEE-Main (exempted for Foreign Candidates). It used to be the sole prerequisite for admission to the Indian Institutes of Technology bachelor's programs before the introduction of UCEED, Online B.S. and Olympiad entries, but seats through these new mediums are very low.
| Acronym | JEE-Advanced |
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| Type | Electronic assessment, Computer based test (CBT) |
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| Purpose | Admission to undergraduate Engineering, Science and Architecture courses in 23 IITs |
| Year started | 1961 |
| Duration | 2 Papers of 3 hours each; Total 6 hours a day |
| Offered | Once a year |
| Restrictions on attempts | Maximum two attempts in consecutive years |
| Countries / regions | India |
| Languages | English and Hindi |
| Annual number of test takers | 180,372 (2023) |
| Qualification rate | 24.26% out of which who wrote JEE-Advanced after qualifying JEE-Main |
| Website | jeeadv |
Other universities—such as the Marine Engineering and Research Institute, Indian Institute of Petroleum and Energy (IIPE), the Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology, the Indian Institute of Space Technology (IIST), the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISERs), and the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) — use the score obtained on the JEE-Advanced exam as the basis for admission. The JEE-Advanced score is also used as a possible basis for admission by Indian applicants to non-Indian universities such as the University of Cambridge and National University of Singapore.
It has been ranked as one of the toughest exams in the world. High school students from across the country prepare for several years to take this exam, and most of these students have attended coaching institutes. The difficulty and low acceptance rate puts extreme pressure on students taking the exam. In an interview in 2018, former IIT Delhi director V. Ramgopal Rao, famously said that the exam is "tricky and difficult" because it is framed to "reject candidates, not to select them". In 2023, out of the 180,372 candidates who took the exam, 43,773 candidates qualified (36,264 males and 7509 females).