The June session of JEE Mains 2022 concludes: Expected cut-off and qualifying marks

The first session of JEE Mains 2022 ends today. Ten lakhs students appeared in the exam that was held over a span of seven days. Now, the NTA (National testing Agency) will start compiling the results. Experts have come up with the expected cut-off marks the students will need to qualify for IIT JEE and JEE Advanced. This cut-off is compiled based on the analysis for Session 1 examination.

According to the experts, the comprehensive difficulty level remained the same. However, the percentile marks for JEE Advanced score could go up, given the increased number of students who appeared in the exam, as per reports.

About 2.5 lakh candidates will be shortlisted based on their rank and percentile score for JEE Main 2022 for JEE Advanced this year. In 2020, the cut-off for the general category was 90 percentile which went down to 87 in 2021. The experts believe that this year the cut-off to qualify for JEE Advanced will be somewhere at 89 to 91 percentile.


The expected cut-off for the unreserved section might be between 89-91 percentile while for the Economically Weaker Section it might be somewhere between 66-68 percentile. It was 87.8992241 percentile in 2021 and 90.3765335 in 2020 for the Unreserved category and 66.2214845 and 70.2435518 in 2021 and 2020 respectively.

The cut-off expected for OBC-NCL (Other Backward Classes Non-Creamy Layer) might come around 70-71 percentile which was 68.0234470 and 72.8887969 in 2021 and 2020, 48-50 percentile for the Scheduled Castes, and for Scheduled Tribes, it might be around 33-35 percentile. The cut-off percentile for SC and SCT in 2021 was 46.8825338 and 34.6728999 while in 2020 it was 50.1760425 and 39.0696101 respectively.