IIT JEE Age Eligibility

I am 21 years old .Am I eligible for the IIT JEE main exam or not ?

[Kiran Chandar]

Yes being 21 years old you are eligible for the IIT JEE main exam .

Age Eligibility
Applicants have attained the age of 17 years at the time of admission and should not cross the age of 25 years.
However, relaxations will be given for the candidates from deprived category.

Selection Procedure
IIT JEE Main exam for admission for B.E/B.Tech including IIT and NIT.

JEE Main exam will be conducted and shortlisted students who are ranked well in the main exam will be qualifying for the JEE Advanced exam .

IIT JEE main exam is enough for the admission to NIT
JEE advanced exam will be considered for the admission to Indian Institute of Technology.

About 14 to 16 lakh aspirants are expected to apply for JEE Advanced 2014. These will include aspirants who have appeared for their Class 12 boards for the first time in 2013 or 2014.
First, these aspirants will apply for JEE Main 2014 – the last date of which was January 6, 2014.

aspirants will sit for pen-and-paper-based JEE Main exam on April 6 or online JEE Main exam on April 9, 11, 12 or 16, 2014.

JEE Main Rank List will be prepared by giving 60% weightage to JEE scores and 40% weightage to Class 12 board marks.

In JEE Main exam, there is no tie-breaking mechanism and aspirants with same JEE scores might be awarded the same rank.

Overall, Top 1, 50,000 aspirants (from all merit lists) will be eligible to sit for the JEE Advanced exam. These Top 1, 50,000 applicants will include:

50.5% or about 75,750 aspirants from the Common Merit List (CML). If reserved category applicants are included in this list, they will not be included in their respective category lists.

27% or about 40,500 aspirants from the OBC-NCL Merit List.

15% or about 22,500 aspirants from the SC Merit List.

7.5% or about 11,250 aspirants from the ST Merit List.

Persons with Disability (PwD) from each category will be allotted 3% seats from that category.