new delhi the fourth edition of engineering entrance exam jee main has been postponed to august 26september 2 to give aspirants a fourweek gap between two sessions of the crucial exam the fourth edition of jee main was earlier scheduled to be held from july 27 to august 2 just two days after the third edition ends leading to aspirants demanding a gap between the two exams announcing the decision union education minister dharmendra pradhan on thursday tweeted in view of the persistent demand from the student community and to enable the candidates to maximise their performance the national testing agency has been advised to provide a gap of four weeks between session three and four of the jeemain 2021 examaccordingly the jee main 2021 session four will now be held on august 26 27 and 31 and on september 1 and 2 a total of 732 lakh candidates have already registered for jee main 2021 session foura total of 732 lakh candidates have already registered for fourth edition of the joint entrance examination jeemainpradhan said that registration for the jeemain session four is still in progress and dates for registration will be extended up to july 20 in order to address the ongoing covid19 pandemic the number of cities have been increased from 232 to 334 the number of examination centres in every shift will also be increased from 660 to 828 said sadhana parashar senior director ntathe ministry of education had last week announced that the pending editions third and fourth of jeemain will be conducted from july 2025 and july 27 to august 2jeemains for admission to engineering colleges is being conducted four times a year from the coronavirushit current academic session to offer flexibility to students and a chance to improve their scoresthe first phase in february was followed by the second phase in march while the next phases were scheduled for april and maybut those were postponed after a spike in the number of cases of coronavirus during the second wave of the pandemic