EWS Cutoff for JEE Mains 2026: The EWS (Economically Weaker Section) category cutoff for JEE Main is required to qualify for JEE Advanced and admission in top NITs, IIITs, and other top engineering colleges. The expected cutoffs for JEE Main EWS 2026 can be calculated in the percentile range of 80 - 82. Candidates will need a cutoff of 83 or higher to qualify for the JEE Advanced 2026 exam.JEE Main exam aspirants must have an idea about cutoffs to predict their admission chances. Further, based on the recent trends, there has been a rise in the EWS cut off compared to the previous year’s JEE Main cutoff, which was 81 percentile.
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Candidates can check the JEE Main college predictor to find the best colleges based on JEE cutoff. Check the article for more details on the JEE Main cutoff for EWS.
NTA releases the official JEE Mains EWS Cutoff to shortlist candidates for JEE Advanced. The cutoffs are released along with the session 2 results. Here, check the expected JEE Main EWS cutoff percentile based on the difficulty level of the exam.
Category | Expected Percentile |
General (UR) | 93-95 |
OBC-NCL | 80-82 |
EWS | 80-82 |
SC | 60-62 |
ST | 47-49 |
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Check out the previous years' cutoff trends for JEE Mains 2025, 2024, and 2023. As per last year's trends, there is a rise in the percentile range from 75 to 81. The EWS cutoff range is competitive, closely followed by OBC-NCL.
Category | JEE Mains Cutoff 2025 |
General | 93.1023262 |
Persons with Disability | 0.0079349 |
EWS | 80.3830119 |
OBC-NCL | 79.4313582 |
SC | 61.1526933 |
ST | 47.9026465 |
Category | JEE Main Cutoff 2024 |
General | 93.2362181 |
Gen-PwD | 0.0018700 |
EWS | 81.3266412 |
OBC-NCL | 79.6757881 |
SC | 60.0923182 |
ST | 46.6975840 |
Category | JEE Cutoff |
General | 90.7788642 |
EWS | 75.6229025 |
OBC | 73.6114227 |
SC | 51.9776027 |
ST | 37.2348772 |
PwD | 0.0013527 |
EWS candidates can check the JoSAA admission cutoff rank of the JEE Main exam for the top branches at NIT. Tabulated below are the JoSAA 2025 opening and closing ranks for the EWS category round 1.
NIT name | Branch Name | Opening Rang | Closing Rank |
Computer Science and Engineering | 1952 | 2912 | |
Mechanical Engineering | 5929 | 7506 | |
Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur | Computer Science and Engineering | 2283 | 3532 |
Mechanical Engineering | 7022 | 8397 | |
Computer Science and Engineering | 660 | 766 | |
Mechanical Engineering | 2642 | 2842 | |
Computer Science and Engineering | 1452 | 1634 | |
Mechanical Engineering | 4523 | 4648 | |
Computer Science and Engineering | 728 | 1038 | |
Mechanical Engineering | 2568 | 2906 | |
Computer Science and Engineering | 260 | 397 | |
Electrical and Electronics Engineering | 1436 | 1937 | |
Mechanical Engineering | 2000 | 2339 | |
Computer Science and Engineering | 3712 | 4451 | |
Mechanical Engineering | 7576 | 10151 | |
Computer Science and Engineering | 2316 | 2321 | |
Electrical and Electronics Engineering | 4732 | 4885 | |
Mechanical Engineering | 5569 | 5665 | |
Computer Science and Engineering | 1085 | 4720 | |
Electrical and Electronics Engineering | 5519 | 7671 | |
Mechanical Engineering | 8828 | 10589 | |
Computer Science and Engineering | 339 | 421 | |
Electrical and Electronics Engineering | 1401 | 1730 | |
Mechanical Engineering | 2184 | 2333 | |
Computer Science and Engineering | 872 | 965 | |
Mechanical Engineering | 4094 | 4696 | |
Computer Science and Engineering | 1065 | 1212 | |
Electrical and Electronics Engineering | 2156 | 2509 | |
Mechanical Engineering | 3028 | 3424 |
Candidates can check the EWS rank for top IIITs branch-wise.
Institute | Branch Name | Opening Rank | Closing Rank |
Computer Science and Engineering | 1014 | 1053 | |
Electrical and Electronics Engineering | 2038 | 2155 | |
IIIT Kota | Artificial Intelligence and Data Engineering | 3881 | 4061 |
Computer Science and Engineering | 3282 | 3830 | |
Electronics and Communication Engineering | 4471 | 5102 | |
Computer Science and Engineering | 2720 | 3221 | |
Electronics and Communication Engineering | 3796 | 4437 | |
IIIT Kilohrad, Sonepat, Haryana | Computer Science and Engineering | 3815 | 4300 |
CSE ( Data Science & Analytics) | 4385 | 4595 | |
Information Technology | 4321 | 4872 | |
Computer Science and Engineering | 4207 | 4725 | |
Electronics and Communication Engineering | 5116 | 5633 | |
Artificial Intelligence and Data Science | 3494 | 4052 | |
Computer Science and Engineering | 3318 | 3922 | |
Electronics and Communication Engineering | 4128 | 5069 | |
Artificial Intelligence | 3667 | 3839 | |
Computer Science and Engineering | 2963 | 3631 | |
Electronics and Communication Engineering | 4358 | 4557 | |
Information Technology | 3552 | 3693 | |
Electronics and Communication Engineering | 849 | 1066 | |
Information Technology | 578 | 836 | |
Information Technology-Business Informatics | 650 | 847 | |
Computer Science and Engineering | 4682 | 5419 | |
Electronics and Communication Engineering | 5424 | 5730 |
The JEE Main cutoff is not consistent every year. The EWS cutoff trend depends on different factors as follows.
Number of applicants
Performance in the entrance examination
Difficulty level of the JEE Main 2026
JEE Cutoff trends of the previous years’ examination.
On Question asked by student community
Hi student, you can check the list of colleges accepting 97 percentile in JEE Main . Please note that the list is curated as per the general category JEE Main percentile. As a candidate of the OBC-NCL category, you may get into better colleges as the percentile for OBC-NCL is
Hi Jugal,
For top branches (CSE/ECE) at MBM Jodhpur may be challenging but you may have a higher chance going with less important streams through REAP counseling. Students from Rajasthan and those who belong to special category.
With an 86.88 percentile in the OBC-NCL category, gaining admission to the National Forensic Sciences University (NFSU) for the B.Tech-M.Tech Dual Degree in Computer Science & Engineering (Cyber Security) is highly competitive but potentially possible at newer campuses.
You can find the private college details, such as cutoff, rank, and college predictor based on JEE score, by visiting the Careers360 website. Check the link below.
https://engineering.careers360.com/exams/jee-main
You can check your admission chances through Careers360 predictor based on your JEE Main rank, home state, caste, and gender.
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