New Delhi: The JEE Main 2020 is conducted by the National Testing Agency (NTA) for admission to undergraduate programmes in NITs, IIITs and other Centrally Funded Technical Institutions (CFTIs), etc. in the next academic year (2020-2021) in two phases, the first phase for Admissions to BE/ BTech (Paper 1) BArch/ BPlanning (Paper 2) was held from January 6 to January 11, 2020 and the second phase for admissions to BE/ BTech (Paper 1) and BArch/ BPlanning (Paper 2) earlier scheduled in April, will be now be held between July 18 to July 23, 2020.

Students have the option to appear in one or both phases. The result will however consider the students` performance in the best of the two phases. Due to Covid-19 students had the option to change their test centres till May 3 as earlier announced by NTA. The candidates aspiring to take admission to the undergraduate programs at IITs for the year 2020 will also have to appear in BE /BTech Paper of JEE (Main) 2020. Based on the performance in Paper 1 (for BE/BTech) of JEE (Main) 2020, top 2,50,000 candidates would qualify for JEE (Advanced) 2020 which is now rescheduled for August 23, 2020. Admission to IITs will be based on category-wise All India Rank (AIR) in JEE (Advanced) subject to the conditions as would be mentioned in JEE(Advanced) 2020 website.

The JEE Main Paper 1 will be conducted in 2 sessions per day and the candidates will be allotted slots keeping in mind social distancing and students will also be required to adhere to safety measures while taking the exam. The safety guidelines will be made available to the students in their e- hall tickets which will be issued to the students. For appearing in the JEE (Main) examination there is no age limit for the candidates. The candidates who have passed class 12th/equivalent examination in 2018, 2019 or appearing in 2020 irrespective of their age can appear in JEE (Main) examination 2020.