JEE Mains 2021 Latest News: Fulfilling the growing demand of students to increase the gap between two sessions of the JEE (Main) 2021, Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Thursday said the NTA has been advised to provide a gap of four weeks between session 3 and session 4 of the JEE(Main) 2021 Exam. As per the latest announcement, the session 4 will now be held on 26th, 27th and 31st August, and on 1st and 2nd September 2021.

“Accordingly, the JEE(Main) 2021 session 4 will now be held on 26th, 27th & 31st August, and on 1st and 2nd September, 2021. A total of 7.32 lakh candidates have already registered for JEE(Main) 2021 session 4,” Pradhan said.

“In view of the persistent demand from the student community and to enable the candidates to maximise their performance, the @DG_NTA has been advised to provide a gap of four weeks between session 3 and session 4 of the JEE(Main) 2021 Exam,” he said in a series of tweets.

Earlier, the third edition of engineering entrance exam was supposed to be held from July 20 to 25 and the fourth edition from July 27-August 2. However, the exam was postponed due to Covid pandemic.

Prior to this, the NTA had stated that the remaining two sessions of the JEE (Main) —2021 would resume from July 20, 2021. However, addressing the pandemic issue, the number of cities had been increased from 232 to 334.

The minister informed that the registration process for the fourth session of the JEE Main is still open and a total of 7.32 lakh candidates have already registered for the exam. He also added that the dates for registration will be extended up to July 20.

For a couple of weeks now, the students across the country were demanding a gap between both the sessions of the exam. As per the old schedule, the gap between the third and fourth session exam was only one day. Notably, the April session exam ends on July 25 and the May session exam begins on July 27.  Here’s what the students were demanding: