JEE Main Exam 2023: Exam Date, Eligibility, Paper Pattern 2023, Eligibility Criteria, FAQs

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JEE is designed for admission to top institutes in India like IITs, NITs, CFTIs & other reputed institutes. It’s been conducted in two phases i.e; JEE Main and JEE Advanced. Get details of JEE Main Exam 2023 in this article.

JEE, or the Joint Entrance Examination, is a series of competitive exams conducted in India for admission into UG programs offered by top engineering colleges in India, including the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), National Institutes of Technology (NITs), Deemed Universities and other centrally-funded technical institutions (CFTIs) etc.

The JEE exams have two primary segments JEE Main and JEE Advanced.

JEE Main, or the Joint Entrance Examination Main, is India’s national-level engineering entrance examination. It is organized by the National Testing Agency (NTA) for admission into various undergraduate engineering programs offered by top engineering colleges in India.

The JEE Main exam is conducted twice yearly, in January and April. The exam consists of two papers: Paper 1 for B.E./B. Tech courses and Paper 2 for B.Arch/B.Planning courses.

The JEE (Main) – 2023 will be conducted in 02 (two) sessions for admissions in the next academic session. The candidates will thus benefit in the following ways:

However, if a candidate appears in more than one Session then his/her best of the JEE (Main) – 2023 NTA Scores will be considered for preparation of the Merit List/ Ranking.

Click here to view the List of Qualifying Examinations (QE)

Domain	BTech/BE
Number of Subjects	Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics
Mode of Exam	Online (Computer based Test)
Duration	3 hrs (180 minutes) 4 hrs for PwD candidates
Questions Format	MCQs: 4 options with only 1 correct option
Section A based on the MCQ pattern	Physics: 20 Chemistry: 20 Mathematics: 20
Section B based on the Numerical Value type	Physics: 10 Chemistry: 10 Mathematics: 10
Total Number of Questions in JEE Mains 2023	90
Total MArks in JEE Mains 2023	300
Language	Assamese, Bengali, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu in addition to Hindi, English, and Gujarati

Subject	Section A	Section B	Marks
Mathematics	20*	10*	100
Physics	20*	10*	100
Chemistry		10*	100
Total	90		300

Students can go through the details of essential chapters of JEE Main to prepare for the exam. JEE mains important chapters are compiled based on the weight of JEE mains exam subject of the previous year.

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MCQs	Correct Answer or the Most Appropriate Answer	Four marks (+4)
	Incorrect Answer	Minus one mark (-1)
	Unanswered / Marked for Review	No mark (0)
Marking Scheme for questions for which the the answer is a Numerical value	Correct Answer	Four marks (+4)
	Incorrect Answer	Minus one mark (-1)
	Unanswered / Marked for Review	No mark (0)
Method of determining merit	Conversion of the raw score in Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, and the conversion of the total into NTA scores. Overall merit shall be prepared by merging the NTA scores of all shifts of all days.
Method of resolving ties	Tie between candidates obtaining equal Total NTA scores in Paper 1: B.E./B. Tech will be resolved in the following manner in descending order: 1. NTA score in Mathematics, followed by 2. NTA score in Physics, followed by 3. NTA score in Chemistry, followed by 4. Candidate with less proportion of a number of attempted incorrect answers and correct answers in all the subjects in the Test, followed by 5. Candidate with less proportion of a number of attempted incorrect answers and correct answers in Mathematics in the Test followed by 6. Candidate with less proportion of a number of attempted incorrect answers and correct answers in Physics in the Test, followed by 7. Candidate with less proportion of a number of attempted incorrect answers and correct answers in Chemistry in the Test followed by 8. Older in Age followed by 9. Application Number in ascending order

Session 2 JEE Exam 2023 (Main) – April 2023
Online Submission of Application Form	February 15, 2023, to March 12, 2023 (up to 09.00 P.M.)
Last date for successful transaction of prescribed Application Fee	March 12, 2023 (up to 11.50 P.M.)
Downloading Admit Cards from the NTA website	Last week of March 2023
Dates of Examination	06, 08, 10, 11, 12 April 2023 (Reserve dates – 13, 15 April 2023)
Display of Question Paper attempted by the Candidate and Answer Keys for inviting challenges	To be displayed on the NTA website
Declaration of Result	To be displayed on the NTA website