Vikash Sharma

Bhubaneswar: The National Testing Agency (NTA) on Sunday postponed the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Main 2021 (April Session) in view of the Covid-19 situation the country.

The JEE (Main) was scheduled to be held on April 27, 28 and April 30, 2021.

“Looking at the present Covid-19 pandemic and also taking into account the safety and well-being of the candidates and examination functionaries, it has been decided to postpone the JEE (Main)-2021 April session,” NTA notification read.

The revised dates for the JEE (Main)-2021 April session will be announced later on and at least 15-days before the examination.

“Candidates are advised to use this time to prepare themselves better for the examination. They can also take practice (full length/chapter wise) tests on the NTA Abhyas App from their comfort of their homes,” the notification added.

It is pertinent to mention here that the National Testing Agency is conducting the JEE (Main) 2021 in four sessions. Already two sessions have been competed in February (Session 1 from February 23 to 26) and March session (Session 2 from March 16 to 18).

As per official sources, 6,20,978 candidates had appeared in the session 1 and 5,56,248 candidates in the session 2 of the JEE Main.

 

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