JEE Main 2027 is the entrance exam for NITs, IIITs and GFTIs, and the qualifying stage for JEE Advanced (IITs). NTA has not released the official 2027 notification yet, so this guide separates what is confirmed from what is expected based on recent cycles, and covers what you should be doing now. We update the page when official announcements come out.
JEE Main 2027 expected exam dates
- Session 1 is expected in the last week of January 2027, in line with recent cycles.
- Session 2 is expected in the first half of April 2027, about ten weeks after Session 1.
- Registration for Session 1 usually opens in late October or November 2026 on jeemain.nta.nic.in. Create your account early. The form takes under an hour, but documents (photo, signature, category certificates) trip up thousands of students every year.
- You can sit both sessions. Your better NTA score counts, and the two sessions together count as one attempt for the year.
- Admit cards usually come out about a week before each exam, and city intimation slips earlier.
- These dates are expectations. NTA confirms exact dates only in the official notification, and we update this page when it is published.
Eligibility for JEE Main 2027
- You must have passed class 12 (or equivalent) with Physics and Mathematics as compulsory subjects, plus one of Chemistry, Biology, Biotechnology or a technical vocational subject. In practice almost everyone takes PCM.
- Candidates who passed class 12 in 2025 or 2026, or are taking it in 2027, are eligible for JEE Main 2027.
- There is no age limit for JEE Main.
- You get three consecutive years of attempts, counting from the year of your class 12 exam.
- Admission to NITs, IIITs and GFTIs (though not sitting the exam) also needs either 75% aggregate in class 12 boards (65% for SC/ST) or a place in the top 20 percentile of your board. Don't neglect boards while preparing for JEE.
- Diploma holders can sit JEE Main only as a route to JEE Advanced; JoSAA seats through Paper 1 need the class 12 route.
JEE Main 2027 exam pattern (Paper 1: B.E./B.Tech)
- 75 questions in total, 25 per subject. Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics each have 20 multiple-choice questions and 5 numerical-value questions.
- All 75 are compulsory. The choice of optional questions that existed until 2024 was removed in 2025, and nothing suggests it will return for 2027.
- A correct answer earns +4 and a wrong one -1, including on numerical-value questions, so guessing an NVA now costs marks.
- 300 marks in total, in a 3-hour computer-based test offered in 13 languages.
- Scores are normalised into NTA percentiles across shifts. A harder shift doesn't count against you, because you are compared with the students who sat your shift.
- Roughly the top 2.5 lakh JEE Main scorers qualify to sit JEE Advanced for IIT admission.
Syllabus status for 2027
- No syllabus change has been announced for 2027, and it is expected to match JEE Main 2026.
- The last major revision was for 2024, when NTA dropped several chapters (including parts of mechanics-adjacent and inorganic topics) to match the rationalised NCERT. If you are using pre-2024 books or coaching notes, check every chapter against the current official syllabus PDF on jeemain.nta.nic.in.
- NCERT is still the base, especially in Chemistry, where many questions map directly to NCERT lines and tables.
- NTA doesn't publish weightage, but it can be measured. Our chapter-wise weightage page calculates expected marks per chapter from about 4,500 solved JEE Main PYQs and updates as new papers are added (jeeify.com/jee/weightage).
- In practice, 8 of the 20 Physics chapters cover about half the Physics marks, and Chemistry and Mathematics look similar. Ordering chapters by how many marks they carry is the most useful planning decision you can make.
Your month-by-month plan from now to January 2027
- July to September 2026: if you are a dropper, or a class 12 student with backlog, finish the class 11 portion completely. Class 11 chapters carry a little over half the marks in each subject, so you can't skip them.
- October to November 2026: register the week the form opens. Keep working through class 12, and start one full-syllabus PYQ session a week.
- December 2026: move toward practice, with at least 60% of study time on previous-year questions and mock tests and 40% on the remaining theory.
- First three weeks of January 2027: a full mock test every second day at your allotted shift's exact time (9 to 12 or 3 to 6), with a written error log for each one.
- Between Session 1 and Session 2 (February to March 2027): this 10-week window is the most underused part of JEE preparation. Revision driven by your error log routinely moves students 5-10 percentile points in Session 2.
- Throughout: track mastery by topic, not by chapter. 'Rotational Motion: done' hides the difference between torque problems you get right and rolling-motion problems you get wrong.
How to use PYQs correctly
- Previous-year questions are the closest thing to the real paper, because the exam reuses concepts and difficulty levels far more often than it invents new kinds of question.
- Solve PYQs topic by topic while you are learning, to consolidate, and as full papers while revising, to build stamina and practise time allocation.
- Always attempt a question before reading the solution. Once you've read the answer, the question can no longer tell you what you know.
- Keep an error log with three columns: what went wrong (concept, calculation, misread), the fix, and the date you last re-tested yourself.
- Our free question bank has about 4,500 JEE Main PYQs organised by subject, chapter and topic, each with a step-by-step solution. Start at jeeify.com/jee.
