SC asks Centre, others to reply to plea over JEE-Superior 2025 | Training

A bench of Justices B R Gavai and Augustine George Masih issued the notices to the Centre, the Joint Admission Board and others in search of their responses.

The JAB conducts the JEE-Superior.

The petition, filed by 18 Indian Institute of Know-how aspirants who had handed their Class 12 exams in 2023, stated although they had been eligible to look for a ultimate try within the Joint Entrance Examination -Mains in 2025, they had been rendered ineligible to look within the JEE-Superior which is scheduled to be held on Could 18.

“Problem discover, returnable on April 21, 2025,” the bench stated.

Senior advocate Shadan Farasat appeared for the petitioners.

“The shortage of uniformity in variety of makes an attempt in JEE-Mains and Superior deprives the petitioners of equal alternative to safe admission in IIT in comparison with college students who’ve handed XII in 2024 and 2025,” the plea, filed by means of advocate Mrinmoi Chatterjee, stated.

Admissions within the IITs, the plea stated, was secured by means of a two-step entrance examination JEE-Mains adopted by JEE-Superior and JEE-Mains is held in two periods in a yr.

The plea stated the petitioners had been aggrieved by the “abrupt and arbitrary coverage reversal” concerning the eligibility standards for JEE-Superior 2025 by the JAB, which initially elevated the permissible makes an attempt from two to 3 on November 5, 2024, solely to rescind it on November 18 final yr.

“The restriction/restrict on variety of makes an attempt to solely two is insufficient, extreme and towards the curiosity of the hundreds of IIT aspirants together with the petitioners,” it stated.

The petitioners argued the “revised” eligibility standards solely permitted candidates who had handed Class 12 in 2024 and 2025 to look within the JEE-Superior 2025.

The coverage for JEE-Mains permitted candidates to try the examination as much as six instances, unfold over a period of three consecutive years, it added.

In distinction, JEE-Superior imposes a restrict of solely two makes an attempt, the plea stated.

“This distinction within the eligibility standards for JEE-Mains and Superior is irrational, discriminatory, inherently arbitrary, liable to be put aside,” the plea stated.

The petitioners have referred to a January 10 order handed by the apex court docket on a separate petition by which it famous that JAB issued a press launch on November 5 final yr which stated college students who appeared for the Class 12 examination within the years 2023, 2024 and 2025 can be eligible to look for the JEE-Superior.

It had additional famous that on November 18, 2024, one other press launch was issued limiting the eligibility solely to 2 tutorial years 2024 and 2025.

The apex court docket then stated such college students, who had withdrawn from their programs and dropped out between November 5, 2024 to November 18, 2024, can be permitted to register for JEE-Superior.

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