Minimum Marks in JEE Main to qualify for JEE Advanced 2025: Candidates aspiring to clear the exam must know the minimum marks in JEE Main to qualify for JEE Advanced. To gain admission into IITs, students need to clear the JEE Advanced exam. Based on the previous year's general category cutoff, aspirants should gain 91 percentile and above in the JEE Main 2025 exam to be able to appear for JEE Adv. Also, candidates must be within the top 250000 ranks in the JEE Main 2025 exam. The eligibility to attempt the JEE Advanced 2025 is to qualify the JEE Main and be among the top 2,50,000 qualifying candidates. JEE Main exam aspirants can learn about the minimum marks in JEE Main to qualify for JEE Advanced on this page.
The National Testing Agency (NTA) will issue the JEE Mains 2026 session 1 answer key soon on its official website at jeemain.nta.nic.in. Candidates must be aware of the tie-breaking method before the declaration of results.
Last year, the NTA revised the tie-breaking process for Paper 1 to determine ranks of candidates with identical total NTA scores. The criteria used were applied in the following order:
If the tie persisted even after applying all these parameters, candidates were allotted the same rank.
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Candidates should ensure they are thoroughly aware of the JEE Main scores that ensure eligibility of candidates to the JEE Advanced exam. Candidates can read the following article to know the minimum marks in JEE Main to qualify for JEE Advanced.
Qualifying exam | NTA JEE Main 2025 |
Total marks | 300 |
Frequency of exam | 2 times in a year |
Subjects covered | Maths, physics chemistry |
Marking scheme | Right answer +4 Wrong answer -1 |
Candidates must know the minimum marks in JEE Main 2025 to qualify for the JEE Advanced 2025 before attempting the exam. The minimum percentile for different categories is specified in the table below.
Category | JEE Main percentile |
|---|---|
General | 93.2362181 |
Gen-PwD | 0.0018700 |
EWS | 81.3266412 |
OBC-NCL | 79.6757881 |
SC | 60.0923182 |
ST | 46.6975840 |
While the most important eligibility to apply for the JEE Advanced 2025 exam is clearing the JEE Main 2025 cutoff, the ranks gained by the candidates also play a very important role in determining if the candidate can attempt the JEE Advanced exam. Only the top 2,50,000 candidates in the JEE Main exam will be eligible for the JEE Advanced exam. Hence, along with clearing the JEE Main 2025 cutoff, candidates also need to secure a rank in the top 2,50,000 JEE Main ranks.
NTA will release the JEE Main 2025 marks vs rank vs percentile on the official website. Candidates can check the JEE Main marks vs rank vs percentile from the table below. This will help them determine if they will qualify for the JEE Advanced exam or not. The scores mentioned in the table below are from the previous year data. The updated date will be mentioned once released.
Marks out of 300 | Rank | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
286- 292 | 19-12 | 99.99826992- 99.99890732 |
280-284 | 42-23 | 99.99617561 - 99.99790569 |
268- 279 | 106-64 | 99.99034797 - 99.99417236 |
250- 267 | 524-108 | 99.95228621- 99.99016586 |
231-249 | 1385-546 | 99.87388626-99.95028296 |
215-230 | 2798-1421 | 99.74522293-99.87060821 |
200-214 | 4667-2863 | 99.57503767- 99.73930423 |
189-199 | 6664- 4830 | 99.39319714- 99.56019541 |
175-188 | 10746-7152 | 99.02150308 - 99.3487614 |
160-174 | 16163-11018 | 98.52824811-98.99673561 |
149-159 | 21145-16495 | 98.07460288-98.49801724 |
102-109 | 65758-55269 | 94.01228357-94.96737888 |
95-101 | 76260-66999 | 93.05600452 -93.89928202 |
89-94 | 87219-78111 | 92.05811248 -92.88745828 |
Various factors are taken into consideration by NTA to calculate the minimum score for JEE Advanced eligibility. Candidates can use these factors to understand how to determine the JEE Main scores required to apply for the JEE Advanced 2025 exam. These factors include
Total number of candidates who appeared for JEE Main 2025
Level of difficulty of the exam
Total number of available seats in JEE Main participating institutes
Previous year cutoff trends
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
NTA will release the JEE Main 2025 cutoff after the declaration of results on the official website.
JEE Main 2025 cutoff will be released along with the exam result.
The top 250000 ranks will be allowed to apply for the JEE Advanced exam. The last rank will depend on the category of the candidate, JEE Main performance and difficulty level of the exam among other factors.
Candidates with a score of 150 can expect to get a rank between 21145-16495. Hence the candidate will be eligible to apply for the JEE Advanced 2025 exam.
Candidates should score above 91 marks out of 300 to be able to apply for the JEE Advanced 2025 exam.
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