JEE Mains session 4th 2021 dates has postponed, exams to be held from Aug-Sept

JEE session 4 will be now held on 26th, 27th, and 31st August, and on 1st and 2nd September 2021

Due to the ongoing second wave of COVID-19 the JEE (Main) 2021 session 4 has been postponed and will now be held on 26th, 27th, and 31st August, and on 1st and 2nd September 2021 as informed by the Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Thursday. He said that the National Testing Agency has been advised to provide a gap of four weeks between session 3 and session 4 of the JEE(Main) 2021 Exam.

According to the records, a total of 7.32 lakh candidates have been already registered for JEE(Main) 2021 session 4. Registrations for the JEE (Main) session 4 are still in progress and dates for registration will be further extended up to 20th July, as said in the statement by Education Minister.

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Last month it was decided that the third edition of the engineering entrance exam was to be held from July 20 to 25 and the fourth edition from July 27-August 2, but it got postponed due to ongoing raising cases of the deadly virus.

The NTA also stated the remaining two sessions of the JEE (Main) —2021 would resume from July 20, 2021. In order to address the pandemic, the number of cities had been increased from 232 to 334.

At the start of this month, the NTA said, it has to postpone the sessions of the JEE-Main and the exam would be conducted at 828 centers in all sessions instead of the previous 660.

Senior director of NTA Sadhana Parashar said that “In order to address the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, the number of cities has been increased from 232 to 334. The number of examination centers in every shift will also be increased from 660 to 828.”

This year, the examination authority has given students a choice to answer 75 questions (25 each in Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics) out of 90 (30 each in Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics. And also the Merit list and ranking will be prepared based on the best score of candidates.

JEE Main 2021 will be conducted in 13 languages this year including,  Hindi, English, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Odia, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu.