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Dear Megha, yes. For admission to IIT, you need to appear for both JEE Mains and JEE Advanced. If you want to study in an IIT, you need to appear for both JEE Mains and JEE Advanced. JEE Advanced is the entrance examination for admission to IITs, NITs and GFTIs. To be eligible for JEE Advanced, you need to qualify in JEE Mains. For more information on JEE Advanced please visit our page at: https://engineering.careers360.com/articles/jee-advanced
Now for JEE Mains, you need to have completed your 10+2 in Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics. If your goal is IIT, you should secure a minimum aggregate of 75% in your 10+2. For more information, on JEE Mains, please visit our page at: https://engineering.careers360.com/exams/jee-main
Dear Aspirant,
They are the only exams for admission in Btech and BSc(in some of them) in the IITs. The JEE is the only exam conducted for admission into these premier institutes. If you are not aware about them or the selection process, then here it is.
JEE conducted in two phases, JEE mains for admission into NITs and GFTIs and those students who clears the JEE mains are further allowed to take JEE advanced. Then when you clear the JEE advanced, the admission process begin. However, clearing any of these two exams does not means a sure shot admission into these colleges. After you clearing the cutoffs, rank list is prepared and admission is given on the basis of rank.
You could read more about it here:
https://engineering.careers360.com/exams/jee-main
https://engineering.careers360.com/exams/jee-advanced
Hope this helps. Thank you.
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