New Delhi:The Joint Admission Board (JAB), the authority on framing policies, rules and regulations for the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE), in an emergency meeting held virtually on Tuesday, has decided to grant an extra attempt to students who were unable to appear in JEE (Advanced) 2020 after testing COVID-19 positive. The candidates will be allowed to reappear in 2021.
In order to avoid prejudice to other candidates, the JAB has decided to allow all the candidates, who had successfully registered to appear in JEE (Advanced) 2020 but were absent in the exam, to appear in JEE (Advanced) 2021, as a one-time measure.
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To ensure equal opportunity to all, the JAB has also decided that these candidates will not have to qualify JEE (Main) 2021 and will be allowed to directly appear in JEE (Advanced) 2021 on the basis of their successful registration to appear in JEE (Advanced) 2020. The relaxation of existing eligibility criteria will be in addition to proportionate relaxation of age bar.
Further, it was decided in the meeting that these candidates would be considered in addition to and not as part of the total number of candidates who would qualify from JEE (Main) 2021 for appearing in JEE (Advanced) 2021.
