The IIT JEE Main And Advance are conducted by JE organisation for to provides admission for engineering course.

After qualify the main exam of IIT JEE main candidates are eligible for advance of IIT JEE.

JEE-Advanced is for admission to Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), and Indian School of Mines Dhanbad, an institute that will be converted to IIT.

And The JEE-Main exam is for admission to National Institutes of Technology (NITs), Indian Institutes of Information Technology (IIITs), Centrally Funded Technical Institutes (CFTIs) as well as for admission to the dual degree programme of IIEST Shibpur.

Only the students selected in JEE Mains are eligible for appearing in JEE Advanced. Over 200,000 students are selected each year.

In the paper 1 of IIT JEE Main has multiple choice questions in Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics while the paper 1 of JEE-Advanced has objective type questions from the same subjects.

Candidates can take the paper 1 of JEE-Main as a pen-paper test or an online test.
JEE-Advanced does not offer any such option. Both the papers of JEE Advanced shall be paper based tests.

The paper 2 of JEE-Main is taken by students only for admission to B.Arch B.Plan program.

Those interested in pursuing Architecture and Design courses in an IIT shall be required to sit for the Design Aptitude Test in a zonal IIT sometime later.

A candidate can take JEE-Main only thrice in his/her lifetime.

A candidate can attempt JEE-Advanced a maximum of two times in consecutive years.

Number of applicants by year:

Year No. of Students
2016 1,207,000
2015 1,300,000
2014 1,350,000
2013 1,400,000