JEE Main Result 2025: ‘Expect high cut-off this year’

JEE Main 2025 Expected Cut-off

According to Sandeep Mehta, IIT Alumnus and co-founder, Vidyamandir Classes, the JEE Main cut-off for qualifying to sit in JEE Advanced 2025 will be based on aspects such as the difficulty level of the exam, number of aspirants, and overall performance. Going by recent trends, the general category cutoff is expected to be between the 93 to 95 percentile, which is approximately equivalent to about 85–90 marks out of 300. For OBC-NCL and EWS candidates, the cutoff is likely to be a bit lower, about 91 to 93 percentile, with scores around 80–85 marks.

JEE Main 2025 Rank Predictor

For SC candidates, the cutoff percentile is likely to be around 82 to 86 and for ST candidates, around 73 to 80 percentile. This implies that candidates belonging to these categories might need to secure between 50 to 65 marks. PwD candidates are likely to have a lower cutoff of around 40 to 45 percentile, IIT alumnus and co-founder said.

Besides clearing the JEE Main cutoff, students also have to qualify the eligibility in their Class 12 board examination, which usually is 75 per cent aggregate for General and OBC and 65 per cent for SC, ST and PwD categories. These projections can slightly change, and the official cut-off will be declared by NTA with the final results of JEE Main, the IIT alumnus said.

According to Mohit Tyagi of Competishun, the JEE main cut-off to become eligible for JEE Advanced for the general category candidates will see an increase. According to Tyagi, the cut-off for general category candidate will be up from 90.7788642 last year to 92.19 this year. For OBC-NCL, he expects the cut-off to be 77.67.

According to PhysicsWallah, to qualify for JEE Advanced 2025, candidates will have to meet specific minimum marks based on their category: General category requires at least 86 marks, EWS needs 84 marks, OBC candidates must score a minimum of 82 marks, SC candidates need 60 marks, and PwD candidates have a threshold of just 0.0018 marks.

The JEE Main cut-off also depends on multiple factors, including the number of total candidates taking the exam and the difficulty level of each of the session. 

Nitin Vijay, founder and CEO of Motion Education, said that the JEE Main 2025 cut-off is expected to see an increase. The expected JEE Main cut-off is 95+ for candidates belonging to the general categories while it is 50+ for ST category candidates. Apart from this, the expected cut-off for JEE Main 2025 is 85+ for EWS, 83+ for OBC-NCL, 65+ for SC. He said that students can look at the cut-offs of previous years to get an idea of ​​​​JEE Main passing marks.

JEE Main cut-off from the past 5 years

The National Testing Agency (NTA) concluded the paper 1 exams of the second session of the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) on April 9. NTA is expected to declare the JEE Main result on April 17.