Candidates who wish to write JEE (Advanced) - 2014 must write the Paper-1 of JEE (Main)-2014 in the month of April 2014. For eligibility criteria for appearing in JEE (Main) - 2014, please refer to http://www.jeemain.nic.in. Only top 1, 50,000 candidates (including all categories) qualified in Paper-1 of JEE (Main) - 2014 will be eligible to appear for JEE (Advanced) -2014.
Distribution of top 1, 50,000 candidates across various categories in the merit list of
JEE (Main)-2014 are as follows:
Top 75750 (50.5%) from the common merit list (CML)
Top 40500 (27%) from Other Backward Classes-Non creamy layer OBC(NCL),
Top 22500 (15%) from Scheduled Caste(SC)
Top 11250 (7.5%) from Scheduled Tribe(ST) candidates
3% of total seats in each category are reserved for PwD candidates (i.e. 2272 GE-PwD,
1215 OBC (NCL) - PwD, 675 SC-PwD and 338 ST-PwD).
Age Limit
Candidates of GE and OBC categories must have been born on or after October 01, 1989 and those of SC, ST and PwD categories must have been born on or after October 01, 1984.