New Delhi, 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 clarified that no calculator will be available during the engineering entrance exam. In a notice issued on Sunday night, 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) - the entrance test for admission to undergraduate engineering and architecture courses. "In the Appendix-VIII of the Information Bulletin for JEE (Main) - 2026 on 'Computer BasedTest (CBT)' which has been uploaded on the NTA's official website, it has been mentioned that an onscreen standard calculator will be available during the Computer-Based Test (CBT). However, this feature forms part of the generic test conducting platform and does NOT apply to JEE (Main) conducted by the NTA, as the use of calculators in any form is not permitted in this examination," NTA said in its notice. In its bulletin for JEE Main 2026 on Friday, NTA said, "An onscreen standard calculator will be available throughout the computer-based Test (CBT). Use this basic calculator online for math with addition, subtraction, division and multiplication. The calculator includes functions for square root, percentage etc." However, NTA has removed the section on onscreen standard calculator in its revised bulletin issued on Sunday while regretting the typographic error....