India, Nov. 3 -- Two days after announcing that candidates would get access to an onscreen virtual calculator during the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Main 2026, the National Testing Agency (NTA) on Sunday issued a clarification saying no calculator will be available during the exam that is used to select candidates aspiring for admission to undergraduate courses in engineering and architecture.

In a notice issued on Sunday night, the NTA said the earlier mention of an onscreen standard calculator in the information bulletin was due to a "typographic error." It clarified that while the calculator feature exists on the agency's generic test platform, its use is not permitted in JEE (Main).

"In the Appendix-VIII of the Information Bull...