Supreme Court asks Centre, others to respond to plea over JEE-Advanced 2025
The Hindu
Supreme Court seeks responses on plea to allow 2023 Class 12 students to participate in JEE-Advanced 2025.
The Supreme Court on Thursday (March 27, 2025) sought responses from the Centre and others on a plea seeking a direction to allow students, who had passed Class 12 exams in 2023, to participate in JEE-Advanced 2025 for securing admissions in the prestigious IITs.
A Bench of Justices B R Gavai and Augustine George Masih issued the notices to the Centre, the Joint Admission Board (JAB) and others seeking their responses.
The JAB conducts the JEE-Advanced.
The petition, filed by 18 Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) aspirants who had passed their Class 12 exams in 2023, said though they were eligible to appear for a final attempt in the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE)-Mains in 2025, they were rendered ineligible to appear in the JEE-Advanced which is scheduled to be held on May 18.
"Issue notice, returnable on April 21, 2025," the Bench said.
Senior advocate Shadan Farasat appeared for the petitioners.
"The lack of uniformity in number of attempts in JEE-Mains and Advanced deprives the petitioners of equal opportunity to secure admission in IIT compared to students who have passed XII in 2024 and 2025," the plea, filed through advocate Mrinmoi Chatterjee, said.
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