Guidelines For PwD Candidates Of JEE Main 2025 Released

HYDERABAD: The National Testing Agency (NTA) has released guidelines for conducting Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Main for the candidates belonging to persons with disabilities (PwD) category.

The guidelines have been released after the NTA received several enquiries on the issues related to scribe and compensatory time for the PwD and PwBD candidates.

As per The Rights of Persons With Disabilities Act, 2016, The ‘person with benchmark disability’ means a person with not less than 40% of a specified disability where it has not been defined in measurable terms and includes a person with disability.

Person with disability also means a person with long term physical, mental, intellectual or sensory impairment which, in interaction with barriers, hinders his full and effective participation in society equally with others.

“Facility of scribe and or compensatory time will be granted solely to those having difficulty in writing subject to production of a certificate to the effect that person concerned has limitation to write and that scribe is essential to write examination on his/her behalf from the competent medical authority of a government healthcare institution as per proforma at Appendix-II,” said a notification issued by the NTA.

To view the full notice issued by the NTA, click here.

Additional time

The word ‘extra time or additional time’ that is being currently used should be changed to ‘compensatory time’ and the same should not be less than 20 minutes per hour of examination for persons who are allowed use of scribe, reader or laboratory assistant.

All the candidates with benchmark disabilities who are eligible for availing the facility of scribe in terms of guidelines IV (Refer Para IV of Part-Il to this Publie Notice) may be allowed additional time of minimum of one hour for examination of three hours duration whether they use the facility of scribe or not.

In case the duration of the examination is less than an hour, then the duration of additional time should be allowed on pro-rata basis. Additional time should not be less than 5 minutes and should be in the multiple of 5.