JEE Advanced exams postponed to May 27 due to Lok Sabha elections

The date of the Joint Entrance Examination (Advanced) has been changed to May 27, 2019 to avoid clashing with the Lok Sabha elections. The exam was earlier scheduled to be held on May 19.

The National Testing Agency had earlier changed the date of the JEE Main examination too.

“In view of the clash in the dates of JEE (Advanced) 2019 and the last phase of General Elections 2019, the examination date of JEE (Advanced) 2019 has been shifted to May 27, 2019 (Monday). The examination will be held in India and abroad, on May 27, 2019 (Monday), in the following two shifts: Paper 1 (09:00 to 12:00 IST) and Paper 2 (14:00 to 17:00 IST),” stated the official statement by the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee.

Candidates who successfully clear the JEE Main 2019 examination, being held in April, would be eleigible to sit for the JEE (Advaned) exam. Both the exams will be conducted online on CBT-mode. While the JEE main examination is used for admission to various engineering and architecture courses, the JEE Advanced is mandatory for admission to the IITs.

The JEE mains admit cards will be released on March 20 on the official website of JEE – jeemain.nic.in.

JEE Advanced 2019: Here is the full list of institutes participating in the exam this year:

– Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi
– Indian Institute of Technology Bhilai
– Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar
– Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
– Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
– Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad
– Indian Institute of Technology Dharwad
– Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar
– Indian Institute of Technology Goa
– Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
– Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad
– Indian Institute of Technology Indore
– Indian Institute of Technology Jammu
– Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur
– Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
– Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
– Indian Institute of Technology Madras
– Indian Institute of Technology Mandi
– Indian Institute of Technology Palakkad
– Indian Institute of Technology Patna
– Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
– Indian Institute of Technology Ropar
– Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati