NEW DELHI — The National Testing Agency (NTA) confirmed Tuesday that the second session of the JEE Main 2026 has successfully commenced, marking the official start of the week-long period where 1.2 million teenagers realize their hobbies were a waste of time.

At 9:00 AM sharp, candidates across the country began the three-hour process of staring at a computer screen while contemplating whether a degree in Civil Engineering from a Tier-3 college is worth the structural integrity of their remaining mental health.

"The process is entirely seamless," said an NTA official, speaking from behind a desk piled with 47,000 unread emails regarding center allocation errors. "We have implemented Aadhaar-based biometric verification and AI-enabled face recognition to ensure that the person entering the hall is the same person whose childhood was sacrificed at a coaching center in Kota."

According to the official schedule, the BE/BTech papers will be conducted between April 2 and April 8. The agency noted that while the Mathematics section in Session 1 was rated as 'moderately difficult,' they have worked closely with technical experts to ensure the Session 2 questions are sufficiently abstract to make even the most prepared student question if they are actually reading English.

In keeping with the tradition of 'City Intimation Slips,' several thousand candidates were given the opportunity to explore the nation’s infrastructure by being assigned centers in cities located 350 kilometers from their permanent addresses.

"It’s part of the comprehensive testing environment," the official added. "If a student cannot navigate a state transport bus and a 4:00 AM arrival in a strange city with no hotel availability, how can we expect them to handle a 7.5 GPA in Thermodynamics?"

Private coaching institutes, the primary beneficiaries of the exercise, have already begun preparing 'Expected Cut-off' videos and 'Rank Predictor' tools designed to keep server traffic high and student hope low.

As of press time, the Ministry has clarified that while the exam city slips were released only days in advance, students should have used the laws of probability they studied in Class 11 to predict their own travel requirements.