IIT Kanpur has announced eligibility criteria for the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Advanced 2025. Candidates preparing for the next year’s IIT entrance test need to note down this criteria.

For Indian nationals, there are five eligibility criteria for JEE Advanced – performance in JEE Main 2025, age limit, number of attempts, appearance in Class 12 examination and earlier admission at IITs.

Performance in JEE (Main) 2025: The candidates should be among the top 2,50,000 successful candidates (including all categories) in BE/BTech paper (paper 1) of JEE Main 2025. This include 10 per cent general-EWS, 27 per cent OBC-NCL, 15 per cent SC, 7.5 per cent ST and 40.5 per cent open category candidates. In each category, there will be five per cent horizontal reservation for PwD candidates.

Here's the category-wise distribution of candidates (including horizontal reservation for PwD candidates)-

Open: 1,01,250

General-EWS: 25,000

OBC-NCL: 67,500

SC: 37,500

ST: 18,750