JEE Main 2027 (Session 1) Countdown

Live countdown to JEE Main 2027 (Session 1), estimated for Friday, 22 January 2027 until National Testing Agency (NTA) announces the official date.

Friday, 22 January 2027Estimated

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Estimated date, official date yet to be announced.

NTA's tentative exam calendar (published 16 September 2026) lists 22 to 24 and 28 to 30 January 2027.

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About JEE Main 2027 (Session 1)

NTA's national engineering entrance test, sat in January and again in April, and the gateway to JEE Advanced.

Who takes it

  • Students who passed Class 12 in 2025 or 2026, or are appearing for it in 2027. There is no age limit
  • You can sit one session or both; only the better of your two scores counts

Format

  • Paper 1 (B.E./B.Tech): 75 questions in 3 hours, 25 each in Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics, for 300 marks, on a computer at a test centre
  • Each subject has 20 multiple-choice questions and 5 numerical-answer questions, all compulsory
  • +4 for a correct answer and -1 for a wrong one, numericals included. Paper 2A (B.Arch) and 2B (B.Planning) are separate papers

What it leads to

Admission to NITs, IIITs and other centrally funded institutes through JoSAA, to many state and private engineering colleges, and eligibility for JEE Advanced, which is open to roughly the top 2,50,000 Paper 1 candidates.

Source: NTA JEE (Main) information bulletin and exam calendar; the JEE Advanced cutoff is from the JEE (Advanced) 2026 brochure. Conducting body: National Testing Agency (NTA).