JEE Mains Expected Cut Off 2025: Check the Minimum Qualifying Scores and Percentiles by Category

JEE Main 2025 Expected Cutoff: The JEE Main 2025 cutoff and the session 2 results will be made public by NTA. Candidates can view the JEE Mains cutoff from past years and the anticipated cutoff for 2025 here. In 2024, NTA increased the JEE Main cutoff for every category. Given the exam's level of difficulty, it is anticipated that the cutoff may be lowered this year. Knowing the minimum score needed to pass the JEE Advanced exam is made easier by looking at prior years' JEE Main cutoffs. Applicants can also view the opening and closing ranks for college admission by looking at the JEE cutoff per category below. 

This article is designed for the JEE Main 2025 exam applicants to know what the JEE Main cutoff will be for 2025 to be eligible to appear for JEE Advanced. NTA releases the cutoff every year soon after the examination to inform students and make further efforts accordingly. The data from JEE Main previous year cutoffs 2024, 2023, 2022, and 2021 is used here to deduce the expected minimum marks in JEE Mains to qualify for JEE Advanced. Scroll and check the JEE Main expected cutoff for 2025.

JEE Main Passing Marks Out of 300 

The passing marks out of 300 in JEE Mains vary each year based on factors like the exam's difficulty level, the number of candidates, and overall performance. Generally, to get the minimum qualifying marks for the JEE Advanced, candidates need a score of around 90-100 marks (general category) or the equivalent percentile. For reserved categories, the qualifying marks are typically lower. It is essential to check the official cut-off released by NTA after the exam for accurate details.

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JEE Main Previous Year Cutoff: Last 4 Year Trend

The NTA Cutoffs for JEE Advanced from 2021 to 2024 are given below. You can observe the trend increasing for the general category. There was a drop in the cutoffs for EWS, OBC, SC, and ST in the year 2022 but it has been increasing since then.

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JEE Main Percentile Drop Trend In Previous Years

As we can see in the changes in the percentile cutoffs for JEE Advanced released by NTA, the trend remains positive almost yearly. A drop was observed in 2022 for the EWS, OBC, SC, and ST categories. The general or UR category hasn’t observed any drop in the last four years, and expectations are that it will further increase in 2025.

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JEE Main Cutoff And Candidate Registration Trend

The number of students registering and appearing for the JEE Mains are increasing yearly which directly affects the cutoff. As we know that NTA follows the normalization process to give percentile ranks to students, the higher the number of students, the more will be the number of shifts and the higher will be the cutoff.

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JEE Main 2025 Expected Cutoff  

According to the JEE Main percentile cutoff trend and the number of applicants registering and appearing, the trend is expected to be on the higher side by 2025. Based on the previous data, the year-on-year increase of percentile cutoff for JEE Advanced is highest for the ST category and lowest for the general or UR category. Based on our calculations, the expected cutoffs for JEE Advanced will be as follows:

Disclaimer: It is just a predicted or expected data for the upcoming JEE Main 2025 cutoffs for JEE Advanced based on the previous year trends. The number might vary based on students registered, appeared, and other unknown factors.

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JEE Main 2025 Cutoff After Day 3

Thousands of candidates appeared for the 2025 Session 1 JEE Main on January 22, 23 and 24. The majority of them felt that the paper was moderate, and the maximum marks they would get would fall between 100 and 150. Considering this, the chances of an increase in percentile are high. The trend might match the above data for the expected cutoff for this year's JEE Advance. 

How to Check for the JEE Advanced Cutoff?

Checking the JEE Main cutoff for JEE Advanced is not complicated. After the successful compilation of all the shifts of JEE Main, the NTA releases a notice regarding the statistics related to the examination that mentions the number of applicants registered and applied and the cutoff. Follow these steps to check for the notice:

Step 1: Visit the official website of JEE Main at jee.nta.nic.in.

Step 2: Look for the press release for rank and NTA scores for JEE Main 2025. 

Step 3: Click on the link and open the PDF.

Step 4: Read the information carefully and check the list of people who got 100 percentile along with the cutoff.

Step 5: Download PDF for further use.

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