JEE Advanced 2026 Class 12th Percentage Criteria: Minimum Marks Required for Eligibility

JEE Advanced Class 12th Percentage Criteria 2026

There are various rules regarding the performance in Class 12 or equivalent examinations for the JEE Advanced exam. Candidates must clear the given JEE Advanced eligibility criteria.

• Candidates are required to pass the class 12 (or equivalent) board examination. The Class 12 exam must include a minimum of five subjects, i.e., Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Language, and any one other subject.

• Or candidates must have appeared for the improvement in all subjects in Class 12 (or equivalent) board examination with a minimum of five subjects and be within the top 20 percentile.

• The marksheet submitted by the candidates for their Class XII (or equivalent) examination must be issued by a single examination Board.

• To calculate the top 20 percentile criterion, five subjects' marks will be calculated. The subjects include Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, language and any subject other than the above four.

• The marks of these five subjects will be divided by 500 and multiplied by 100 to get the percentage.

• If a candidate has appeared in Class 12 in 2024 for the first time, and again reappeared in all subjects in 2025 or 2026. The best board marks among the three years will be considered for the JEE Advanced exam.

• In the same way, if candidates have attempted Clas 12 in 2025 and again reappeared in all subjects in 2026, JEE Advanced will consider the best of the two performances.

• If the Board sums up the marks of both Class 11 and Class 12 exams, then only Class 12 marks will be considered.

• If the Class 12 result is based on all three years of a 3-year diploma or courses of equivalent duration, then only the final year marks will be considered.

• In case of a semester system, the marks scored in the final two semesters will be favoured,

• If any subjects, like Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, or Language, are not the final year of a 3-year diploma course, marks will be calculated from the earlier years for the total percentage of marks.

• In case any of the five subjects is not similar ot the final year, then for calculating the percentage, only the marks for the same subject from the previous year will be taken.

• And if the board doesn't give marks for each subject but gives only the aggregate marks, then the former marks will be considered.

JEE Advanced 2026 Eligibility Criteria - Besides Class 12

Besides the Class 12 percentage criteria, there are many different requirements for the JEE Advanced 2026 examination. Candidates must fulfil these requirements to be eligible for the JEE Advanced exam. Here is the list of other JEE Advanced 2026 eligibility criteria.

JEE Main 2026 Exam Performance

Clearing the JEE Main 2026 paper 1 exam is compulsory for students to qualify for the JEE Advanced exam. JEE participants must be among the top 2,50,000 students. The percentage reservation for the following categories is given below:

• GEN-EWS - 10%

• OBC-NCL - 27%

• SC - 15%

• ST - 7.5%

• OPEN - 40.5%

• PwD - 5% horizontal reservation in all of the above.

Category-wise distribution of top 2,50,000* candidates (Criterion 1)

*Total number of candidates can go above 2,50,000 with “tied” ranks/scores in any category.

Age Limit for JEE Advanced

Age limit is another major factor in JEE Advanced eligibility criteria. Check out the rules associated with the age limits.

• Candidates must have been born on or after October 1, 2001, to meet the JEE Advanced attempt limit.

• There is a relaxation of 5 years for SC, ST, and PwD candidates (born on or after October 1, 1996).

IIT JEE Advanced Exam Eligibility Criteria- Number of Attempts

There is a limit in the number of times a student can attempt the JEE Advanced exam in one year. The rules are as follows.

• A candidate can attempt JEE Advanced a maximum of two times in two consecutive years.