Any student who takes admission to an Indian Institute of Technology cannot appear for the JEE-Advanced examination again, but the same is not the case with NIT, IISc, IISERs, RGIPT, IIPE, and IIST.

Paper-I is for admission to B.E./B.Tech courses and is conducted in a Computer Based Test mode.

[5] JEE-Main, unlike JEE-Advanced, has a fixed exam structure and is not subject to change every year.

Up until 2018, the JEE-Main Paper-I was three hours long and consisted of thirty questions in each of the three subjects (physics, chemistry and maths).

[6] From 2013 to 2016, the marks obtained in the class XII school board examination used to be accorded a 40% weightage in deciding the JEE-Main all India ranks.

[11] This transparency was achieved after a long legal battle led by IIT Kharagpur professor Rajeev Kumar,[12] and who was nominated for the National RTI Award 2010 for his work.

The JEE-Advanced, which replaces IIT-JEE, is only for admission to the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs).

Followed by the exams, JoSAA conducts the joint admission process for a total of 23 IITs, 31 NITs, 25 IIITs and other Government Funded Technical Institutes (GFTIs).