What's announced, and what's only a pattern.
Most "exam date" pages publish projections in a table that looks official. This one marks every single date as one or the other, because acting on a guess is how people miss real deadlines.
Read that middle number again. Almost nothing about the 2027 cycle has been officially announced yet, and the handful that has is entirely UPSC's NDA schedule — UPSC publishes an annual calendar a year ahead, while NTA and the private universities do not.
So every JEE Main 2027 date circulating online right now — including on large, confident-looking websites — is somebody's projection. Usually a reasonable one. Still a projection.
What's coming
From today onwards, closest first. Green means an authority has published it. Everything else is our estimate from when it happened last year.
This calendar covers the PCM route — engineering, architecture, design, defence and research — plus NEET UG and MCC counselling. The NEET dates are projected from MCC's published 2026 schedule and NTA's habit of using the first Sunday of May; open any row to see exactly what each estimate was built from. State medical counselling is not in here, because roughly thirty states publish separately.
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What actually happened in 2026
This is where the projections above come from. Every exam below ran in the 2025-26 cycle on these dates, with the registration windows shown. If you want to know roughly when to be free next year, read the row for your exam — not a prediction.
Last verified against official sources on —. Priority is our own judgement of how many students each exam matters to, not an official ranking.
What to do right now
Nothing in the list above needs your attention today. These three do, and none of them wait for a notification:
- Documents. Category certificate, income certificate where relevant, domicile proof, Class 10 and 12 certificates, photograph and signature in the specified format. Certificates expire and re-issuing them takes weeks. This is the single most common avoidable disaster, every single year.
- Eligibility. Read the eligibility section of last year's official information brochure now, not during the application rush. Rules occasionally change, but you will know what to look for.
- Money. Know roughly what the seat acceptance fee and first-semester payment will be for the colleges you are aiming at, and when they fall due. Families get caught by the timing far more often than by the amount.
Always verify against the source. The only authoritative schedules are the official information brochures and websites of the conducting bodies — NTA (jeemain.nta.nic.in), JoSAA, CSAB, MCC, UPSC and each state's CET cell. If this page ever disagrees with them, they are right and we are wrong, and we would like to know.
We update this page when an official notification appears, and we date every change.
Want to know when a date becomes real?
We write when JoSAA, NTA or a CET cell actually announces something — not when a rumour does. That is the entire promise.