The second level of the Joint Entrance Exam which is called the JEE Advanced exam is to be held this year on 28 August 2022. Only the students who have cleared the cut-off for the JEE Mains exam are eligible to appear for the advanced exam. Through the Advanced exam, students get admission into IITs. This year the registration number for the advanced exam has hit an all-time low in the last nine years. According to data, registration has gone down from 83.1% in 2014 to 15 to 61.5% from 2022 to 2023. Experts have said that the drop is because of the fact that students opt for other colleges on the basis of their JEE Mains percentile. IITs and NITs have become exceedingly competitive which puts a lot of pressure on students to perform well in order to get into them. But a lot of private institutions have been set up in India in the past decade which offers high quality of education and lower percentile. To avoid unnecessary pressure of getting into IITs and following a bandwagon trend students opt to get into private institutions on the basis of their JEE Mains percentile. This is why a lot of students don't even register or attempt the JEE Advanced exam even though they have cleared the Mains’ percentile cut-off.
