JEE Mains 2021: Education Ministry waives off minimum 75% eligibility criteria - details here
Earlier, students had requested Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal to scrap the 75 per cent eligibility criteria for JEE Main 2021.
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Updated: Jan 19, 2021, 04:29 PM IST
The Ministry of Education has decided to waive off the minimum 75 per cent marks that candidates need to score in their class 12 exams to be eligible for NITs, IIITs, SPAs and other Central Funded Technical Institutes for the academic year 2021-22. The admissions are based on Joint Entrance Examination (JEE)(Main).
A senior official of Higher education told ANI that considering the decision taken for IIT JEE (Advanced) and in line with the decision taken for the last academic year, it has been decided to waive off the 75 per cent marks (in class 12 exam) eligibility criteria under Joint Entrance Examination (Main) for the next academic year 2021-2022 in respect of NITs, IIITs, SPAs and other CFTIs, whose admissions are based on JEE (Main).