JEE Main Cutoff 2025 Official: NTA sets general cutoff at 93.1023262 percentile
NTA released the JEE Main Cutoff 2025 Official in April 2025 , listing category-wise qualifying percentiles for JEE Advanced. The qualifying percentiles determine who moved to the Advanced stage; they are not admission cutoffs for NITs or IIITs.
JEE Main Cutoff 2025 Official — Category percentiles
| Category | Qualifying Percentile (2025) |
|---|---|
| General | 93.1023262 |
| Gen-EWS | 80.3830119 |
| OBC-NCL | 79.4313582 |
| SC | 61.1526933 |
| ST | 47.9026465 |
| PwD | 0.00793490 |
JEE Main Cutoff 2025 Official: how many appeared and who qualified
Around 1,475,103 unique candidates took JEE Main in 2025. NTA forwarded 250,236 candidates to JEE Advanced. Of these, about 97,321 were from the General category and about 67,614 were OBC-NCL.
Top engineering seats require far higher percentiles than these qualifying marks. For example, CSE at top NITs typically needs ~99.5+ percentile (roughly rank 1,000–2,000 ).
JEE Main Cutoff 2025 Official — OBC vs General: rank impact
OBC-NCL candidates get lower category ranks than CRL for the same marks; that improves admission chances in category-reserved seats. This advantage shows clearly in marks-to-rank mapping used during counselling.
A quick marks-to-rank snapshot (2025 patterns):
| Marks (out of 300) | CRL Rank (General) | OBC-NCL Category Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 280+ | 1–50 | 1–15 |
| 200–219 | 4,001–8,000 | 451–1,200 |
| 120–139 | 45,000–75,000 | 9,001–16,000 |
Qualifying JEE Main percentiles only open the door to JEE Advanced; they do not guarantee seats in NITs/IIITs/GFTIs. Counselling cutoffs (JoSAA/college closing ranks) depend on branch, institute, rounds and home-state reservations.
Key eligibility and trend notes
- IIT JEE Advanced eligibility for OBC-NCL includes minimum thresholds like 5.25% in each subject and 18.50% aggregate as applied in 2025.
- Expected candidates for JEE Main 2026 are estimated at ~1.55–1.6 million , which may keep competition high.
- IIITs often compete with NITs for top branches; CSE remains the most competitive across institutes.