JEE Advanced 2025: Supreme Court To Hear Pleas Challenging Reduction In Number Of Attempts – News18

Last Updated:January 10, 2025, 11:27 IST

IIT Kanpur revised JEE Advanced 2025 eligibility, initially allowing 3 attempts, but later reduced it back to 2, disappointing many students.

JEE Advanced 2025: The Supreme Court will hear pleas today challenging the reduction in the number of attempts for the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Advanced from three to two. A fresh petition was filed by advocate Sanjeet Kumar Trivedi, and the bench of Justices B.R. Gavai and Augustine George Masih directed that it be tagged with a similar plea scheduled for hearing on January 10, 2025.

The plea said the Joint Admission Board (JAB), entrusted to conduct the JEE-Advanced exam, changed the eligibility criteria for students in an “arbitrary” manner.

“The JAB, vide its press release dated November 5, 2024, first fixed the permissible number of attempts for JEE-Advanced at three, only to change it abruptly vide another press release dated November 18, 2024, and thereby reducing the number of attempts to two,” the plea stated.

“The abrupt changes in the eligibility criteria,” it said, “has affected the petitioner as well as thousands of similarly situated persons denying them a valuable opportunity to enter the IITs.” The plea said the change in eligibility criteria was against the principles of natural justice and added, “The impugned notification is also in violation of principles of legitimate expectation and promissory estoppel.” Seeking setting aside of the November 18, 2024 press release, it said the change disentitled and disqualified many students from taking the JEE-Advanced 2025 exam.

JEE Advanced 2025: Number Of Attempts Controversy

The Indian Institute of Technology, IIT Kanpur at the beginning of November 2024 revised the eligibility criteria for the Joint Entrance Examination (Advanced) 2025. According to the update, the number of attempts to appear in the JEE Advanced were increased from 2 to 3 in three consecutive years.

However, on November 18, 2024, IIT Kanpur reversed its decision to allow candidates three attempts, bringing the number of permissible attempts back to two. The decision has left thousands of students, especially those who were hoping for a third chance, deeply disappointed.