New Delhi: A new petition demanding the postponement of the Joint Entrance Examination Main 2023 (JEE Main 2023) has been filed before the Bombay High Court on December 26, 2022. 

The petition has also demanded the relaxation of 75 per cent minimum eligibility criteria introduced by NTA from this year. The JEE Main 2023 will be held two times -- first in January and the second in April. 

The petitioner has said that NTA has announced the entrance test date in a jiffy. The January session of JEE Main clashes with Class 12 board exams, pre-boards and viva-voce of CBSE, ICSE and other state board examinations.

The JEE Main 2023 registration window is open and the registration deadline for the January session is January 12, 2023. 

The plea, which is a public interest litigation (PIL) petition, has challenged a notification issued in this regard by the NTA on December 15. According to the official notice released by NTA, the JEE Main 2023 January exam will be held between January 24 and January 31, 2023. 

“Most of the State boards have scheduled their Pre-board and board examinations in the month of January 2023. Therefore, students will find it difficult to appear in the Mains examination. Therefore the Mains examination planned in January 2023 is non-beneficial to them because they won't appear for the exam,” the PIL stated.

The plea before the Bombay High Court has sought for deferment of the JEE Main 2023 January session exam to April 2023 or any other convenient date after discussions with respective education boards.

Stating that until last year the eligibility criteria of 75 per cent was not applicable, the PIL added: “The eligibility of 75% in Higher Secondary Class Board Examinations will hit lakhs of students who can score very high in the Mains examination but may not have 75% minimum marks in their board examinations.”

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