mumbai of the 26 lakh candidates who cleared the jee main exam this year just about 16 lakh have registered for the advanced exam recording a dropout rate of 385the entrance test for admission into the 23 iits which is to be held on sunday august 28 will also be taken by 50 foreigners including ocis and pios who have to travel to india to take jee advanced for the fourth time jee advanced will be entirely computerbasedthis year iit bombay will conduct jee advanced in over 600 exam centres in 226 cities the last date for submission of fees is august 12 after this the admit cards will be issued from august 23 the exam will be held in two shifts 9am to 12 noon and from 230pm to 530pmlast year of the 26 lakh candidates who cleared the jee main exam 15 lakh registered for the advanced exam and a year before that of the 25 lakh candidates who cleared jee main 16 lakh registered for jee advanced this will be the third year when the exam will not be held outside india but candidates will travel to the country to take the competitive testthe total seats have increased to 16232 in 23 iits from 13000 in 2019 there are 1583 female supernumerary seats this year too the iits have decided to give relaxation to class 12 candidates as per the decision taken by the joint admission board jabthe jab of jee advanced in the first meeting held on december 14 2021 deliberated on the numerous representations received regarding the eligibility criteria and was of the view that the exceptional circumstances and hardships faced due to the covid19 pandemic required some relaxation to be given these relaxations are special onetime measures only said the iits in their press noteaccordingly candidates who appeared in class 12 examination for the first time in 2020 or 2021 and successfully registered for jee advanced 2021 but were absent in both the papers of jee advanced 2021 are eligible to directly appear for jee advanced 2022second as a onetime special measure due to the ongoing pandemic candidates who appeared in the class 12 examination in 2020 for the first time are also eligible to appear for jee advanced 2022 provided they satisfy the following two criteria simultaneouslythe candidate should have appeared once for jee advanced either in the year 2020 or 2021 or have not at all appeared in any paper in both jee advanced 2020 and jee advanced 2021 and these candidates should appear in jee main 2022 and meet the cutoff score of the top 250000 successful candidates for qualifying for jee advanced 2022 in their respective categorydue to covid19 concession in board eligibility was being given for the last two years earlier in 2019 only 75 percentile in the 12th board or the top20 percentile of the respective board was considered eligible for admission in iit