Is IIT JEE Tough? The Indian Institutes of Technology Joint Entrance Exam, or IIT JEE, is considered the toughest engineering exam in India. It has a position in the most difficult exams around the world. It is considered so difficult because of how tough the problems are and how low the acceptance rate is. The only exam in India, which can be considered harder than IIT JEE is the Union Public Services Commission Civil Service Exams or UPSC CSE.
IIT JEE was introduced in 2013 and is designed to give admission to candidates to all 23 IITs. The acceptance rate for all the IITs is less than 1%, less than the acceptance rate of colleges like Harvard, Yale, etc. In 2021, more than 10 Lakh students applied for JEE Mains and there are only 16,234 seats for undergraduate programs in all IITs. This shows how incredibly competitive the exam is. Millions of aspirants dream to get admission into IIT but a small part of those can do so.
Is IIT JEE Tough? IIT JEE has a vast syllabus. It crosses three subjects – Physics, Chemistry, and Maths and up to 4 years of studying. The exam is of two stages – JEE Main and JEE Advanced. JEE Main is an objective-type paper that lasts for three hours and 30 minutes. And only 250,000 people clear the Mains and qualify for the next stage. JEE Advanced is even harder than JEE Mains. It consists of 2 papers, each with a time limit of three hours. It is also an objective type test. Only about 16,000 people are selected for admission into IITs out of all the 250,000.
The number of IIT aspirants continues to rise with each passing year, even with the exam being this tough and competition being this high. The reason is every IITian is guaranteed professional excellence in their lives. They occupy key positions around the world. They get admission into the most prestigious universities around the world and get job opportunities at various MNCs. The high demand for a seat in IIT is the main reason for the exam being this difficult. The examiners are forced to raise the degree of complexity of the paper each year, so they can pick the best candidates out of all the millions.
