Official qualifying threshold

JEE Main Cutoff: Official Advanced-Eligibility NTA Score Threshold

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In short

The General/UR lower boundary in the official JEE Main 2026 category-wise table used for JEE Advanced eligibility is an NTA Score of 93.4123549. This is a qualifying threshold for Paper 1 candidates, not an NIT, IIIT or GFTI admission closing rank.

Official threshold status

  • JEE Main 2026 Advanced-eligibility NTA Score

    JEE Main · 2026

    UR-ALL lower boundary NTA Score 93.4123549

    Verified against the official source

    Authority: National Testing Agency · Last checked 2026-09-11 · Last verified 2026-09-11

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Official JEE Main 2026 Advanced-eligibility NTA Score

Official wording: category-wise cutoff of NTA Score for candidates to become eligible for JEE Advanced 2026 for Paper 1.

  • Category
    UR-ALL
    NTA Score range shown by NTA
    100 to 93.4123549
    Candidates
    96,873
  • Category
    UR-PwBD
    NTA Score range shown by NTA
    93.3244144 to 0.0023186
    Candidates
    4,391
  • Category
    EWS-ALL
    NTA Score range shown by NTA
    93.4105172 to 82.4164528
    Candidates
    25,009
  • Category
    OBC-ALL
    NTA Score range shown by NTA
    93.4105172 to 80.9232583
    Candidates
    67,597
  • Category
    SC-ALL
    NTA Score range shown by NTA
    93.4105172 to 63.9172792
    Candidates
    37,522
  • Category
    ST-ALL
    NTA Score range shown by NTA
    93.4041748 to 52.0174712
    Candidates
    18,790

Source: official NTA result notice of 20 April 2026. These are 2026 values and are not carried forward to another cycle.

Official source

  • JEE Main 2026 result and Advanced-eligibility notice

    20 Apr 2026

    Official document

    Result notice with category-wise NTA Score cutoff

    Official NTA

    Published 20 Apr 2026

    Source: National Testing Agency

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Three different things are called a JEE cutoff

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  • Your question
    Was I above the Main threshold used for Advanced shortlisting?
    Correct data type
    JEE Main Advanced-eligibility NTA Score threshold
    Owning source
    NTA result notice — shown on this page
  • Your question
    Was I inside a JEE Advanced rank list?
    Correct data type
    JEE Advanced rank-list qualifying criteria
    Owning source
    JEE Advanced organising authority — see the Advanced cutoff page
  • Your question
    What rank closed a particular institute and programme?
    Correct data type
    Admission opening and closing rank by year, round, institute, programme, seat type and category
    Owning source
    JoSAA and CSAB — a separate dataset, not ingested

Never compare an NTA Score threshold directly with an admission closing rank. They answer different questions.

Why admission ranks are not on this page

Why admission ranks are not on this page

A JoSAA or CSAB closing rank is meaningful only with its full filter context: year, allocation round, institute, programme, seat type or category and rank basis. That dataset is not ingested, so no number from it appears here, labelled or unlabelled.

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No. This table is the official NTA Score threshold used for JEE Advanced eligibility. NIT, IIIT and GFTI admission closing ranks belong to JoSAA and CSAB and are not published on this page.

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Last updated
11 September 2026

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