New Delhi: The National Testing Agency (NTA) has issued a notice for the Persons with Disabilities (PwD) and Persons with Benchmark Disabilities (PwBD) category candidates who will be appearing in the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Main 2025. As per the NTA notice, the PwD and PwBD category candidates will get an additional one hour along the three-hour duration allotted to appear for the JEE Mains 2025 exam. Moreover, the candidates will also get the facility of a scribe for which candidates will have to provide relevant supporting documents.
The agency has made this decision after if has received queries from candidates related to scribes and compensatory time for the disabled category candidates. NTA’s official notice reads, ‘The National Testing Agency has been receiving several enquiries on issues related to scribe and compensatory time for PwD/PwBD candidates. The guidelines which will be followed for JEE Main with reference to relevant extracts of Government Notification and Office Memorandums are enumerated below’.
JEE Main 2025: Exam day instructions for PwD, PwBD candidates
The disabled category candidates need to follow the below guidelines on the JEE Main 2025 exam day-
- The facility of a scribe, reader or lab assistant will be allowed to a person with a benchmark disability.
- The facility of scribe, reader or lab assistant will be allowed for PwBD category candidates having blindness, locomotor disability and cerebral palsy.
- To avail the facility, other PwBD category candidates will have to provide relevant certificates which prove the physical limitation.
- Candidates should have the discretion to choose the scribe or reader or lab assistant or request the exam conducting authority body to appoint one.
- The exam authorities may assign a person to create panels at district, division, or state levels. In such a scenario, candidates can meet their scribes two days before the exam.
- The word ‘extra time or additional time’ which is currently used will be changed to ‘compensatory time’.
- A minimum of 20 minutes per hour of exam will be given to persons who are allowed the use of a scribe.
- All the PwBD category candidates availing of the facility will get an additional time of a minimum of one hour for the three-hour exam.
- The additional time will not be less than five minutes and will be in the multiple of five.
