Exam dates & calendar

Every exam date in one place, each linked to the body that announced it — with what is announced for 2026–27 kept strictly separate from last cycle's actual schedule.

All exams JEE Main JEE Advanced NEET BITSAT Olympiads Dates

Announced

Olympiads, 2026–27

IAPT, HBCSE and MTA(I) have published these. Dates that have passed are marked held.

Exam	Date	Status	Source
IOQM	6 September 2026	Held	MTA(I)
NSE student enrolmentExtended by IAPT. A student is enrolled by their centre in-charge or enrols individually.	21 August – 16 September 2026	Held	IAPT
RMO	15 November 2026	Upcoming	HBCSE
NSEA	21 November 2026	Upcoming	IAPT
NSEP, NSEC, NSEB, NSEJS	22 November 2026	Upcoming	IAPT
INMO	17 January 2027	Upcoming	HBCSE
INAO, INChO	30 January 2027	Upcoming	HBCSE
INPhO, INBO	31 January 2027	Upcoming	HBCSE

Checked against the official sources on 14 September 2026. Confirm on the conducting body's site before you rely on a date.

2026 actual schedule — 2027 not yet published

Last cycle, as it actually ran

NTA, the IITs and BITS have not released their 2027 calendars. These are the real 2026 dates, which are the best available guide to when the 2027 windows will fall — except the NEET re-examination, a one-off sitting. We will replace this table when the official calendars are out — not before.

Exam	Date	Month (2026)	Source
JEE Main — Session 1, Paper 1	21, 22, 23, 24 and 28 January 2026	January	NTA
JEE Main — Session 1, Paper 2	29 January 2026	January	NTA
JEE Main — Session 2, Paper 1	2, 4, 5, 6 and 8 April 2026	April	NTA
JEE Main — Session 2, Paper 2	7 April 2026	April	NTA
BITSAT — Session 1	April 2026	April	BITS Pilani
NEET-UG — original sittingNTA refunded the examination fee for this sitting and held a re-examination on 21 June 2026.	3 May 2026	May	NTA
JEE Advanced	17 May 2026	May	IITs
BITSAT — Session 2	May 2026	May	BITS Pilani
NEET-UG — re-examinationThe re-examination of the 3 May 2026 sitting.	21 June 2026	One-off sitting	NTA

Checked against the official sources on 14 September 2026. Confirm on the conducting body's site before you rely on a date.

Common questions

Exam dates, answered

When do JEE Main 2027 registrations open?

NTA had not published the 2027 calendar when this page was last checked. The 2026 exam dates above are the best available guide to when the sessions will fall; registration dates are announced by NTA on jeemain.nta.nic.in, and we add them here when they are published, not before.

Why are you showing 2026 dates?

Because they are real. Printing 2027 dates that have not been announced would be inventing them. The 2026 dates are last cycle as it actually ran, and the month column names the month each exam was held in then — not a forecast. The NEET re-examination was a one-off sitting, so it has no month there.

Zigyan's own test dates

The ZEST scholarship test runs on its own schedule, published separately.

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