can foreign student apply to jee main exam

Dear aspirant, no foreign students can't apply to jee mains. There is separate scheme for them i.e. DASA. DASA stands for Direct Admission to Students Abroad. Under this scheme, deserving foreign nationals/ Persons of Indian Origins (PIOs) and Non-Resident Indians (NRIs) are given direct admission to undergraduate Programmes offered by the National Institutes of Technology and other centrally funded institutes (other than IITs) and Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh .

Through this scheme, the Government of India aims to provide quality education to the children of overseas Indians in the field of Engineering and technology

Under DASA Scheme, admissions are offered to Foreign Nationals / PIOs / NRIs who fulfill the following eligibility criteria:

• Candidates must have passed the qualifying examination i.e. senior secondary or any other examination equivalent to 12 years of schooling in India.

• Must have minimum aggregate marks of 60% or 6.75 CGPA on 10 point Scale or Equivalent Grades in all the subject of the qualifying examination.

• Indian nationals seeking admissions should have studied abroad for a minimum period of five years (including the qualifying examination ie XI & XII Standards) during the last eight years.

Note:- As per the recent notification issued by DASA / CIWG 2019 that from 2021 2022 onwards, SAT 2 is no longer valid for getting admission in Premiere Indian colleges like NITs, IIITs, CFIs & SPAs etc.
As per the notification, NRI students are now needed to write JEE Main from 2021 22.

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