JEE Main 2025: NTA Removes Question Selection Option in Section B, Exam Dates to be Announces Soon

JEE Main 2025: National Testing Agency ( NTA ) has released a notification announcing a change to format of Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Main 2025. new change discontinues option to select questions in Section B of exam. NTA notification was released on Thursday, on official website for JEE Main 2025 Examination.

In anor notification, NTA said that option to select questions in Section B, introduced during COVID-19 pandemic, will no longer be available. This means candidates appearing for JEE Main 2025 will need to attempt all five questions in Section B without any choice.

" optional selection of questions was introduced during COVID-19 pandemic to ease pressure on students amid unprecedented challenges," NTA noted in a statement. “With WHO declaring end of COVID-19 as a public health emergency on May 5, 2023, we are reverting to original exam structure.”

Starting from JEE Main 2025, Section B will contain only five mandatory questions per subject in Paper 1 (B.E./B. Tech), Paper 2A (B. Arch), and Paper 2B (B. Planning). Candidates must attempt all five questions without any option for selection

From JEE Main 2025 onwards, candidates will no longer have flexibility to select questions in Section B. "All students will now be required to attempt all five questions in Section B for each subject," stated NTA .

This change ends flexible option introduced in 2021, which allowed students to attempt any 5 out of 10 numerical questions due to challenges of COVID-19. NTA has also confirmed that application process for first phase of JEE Main 2025 is set to begin soon, with details to be released on its official website.