The examination was conducted in offline pen and paper mode till 2010. In 2011, as per the orders of the Ministry of Human Resource Development, CBSE conducted Paper 1 in Computer-Based-Test mode for the first one lakh candidates who opted for the same, while the remaining students took the examination in the conventional pen and paper mode.[4] The number of attempts which a candidate can avail at the examination is limited to three in consecutive years. As of 2018[update], the top 224,000 rankers of JEE (Main) will qualify to take the second and final level of examination: JEE (Advanced)[5]