JEE Main 2026 Result: JEE Advanced Cut-Off Higher Than Last Year

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Eligibility for JEE-Advanced at 0 Percentile in the PwD Category

The National Testing Agency (NTA) has released the JEE Main 2026 session 2 results. Along with the April session results, NTA has also released the All India Ranks of the successful students of JEE Main 2026.

Kabeer Chhillar of ALLEN Career Institute has secured AIR-1 with a perfect score of 300 out of 300 marks. Apart from Kabeer, 3 more regular classroom coaching students of ALLEN Career Institute have secured positions with the Top 10 AIR Ranks which include Arnav Gautam who bagged AIR-5, Shubham Kumar who got AIR-6 and Rishi Premnath who secured AIR-8 in JEE Main 2026 results.

A total of 39 students of ALLEN Career Institute have secured AIR Ranks in Top 100 AIR ranks.

Cut-off of different categories

According to the released statistics for JEE-Main 2026, the top 250,000 students—based on their JEE-Main performance—have been declared eligible for JEE-Advanced.

The category-wise cut-offs were as follows: General Category: 93.4123549 percentile; EWS: 82.4164528 percentile; OBC: 80.9232583 percentile; SC: 63.9172792 percentile; and ST: 52.0174712 percentile. Notably, in the Persons with Disabilities (PwD) category, students were declared eligible for the JEE-Advanced examination even at a percentile score of 0.0023186.

The JEE Advanced Cut-off for the year 2026 is higher than the JEE Advanced cut-off for the last year (2025).

Unique candidates of JEE Main 2026 sessions

Career Counseling Expert at ALLEN Career Institute, stated that according to the data released by the NTA, a total of 1,604,854 unique candidates registered across both sessions of the JEE-Main examination, out of whom 1,538,468 students actually appeared for the exam.

There were 1,034,330 students who appeared for the exams in both sessions. Among the total students who took the exam, 1,006,875 were male students and 531,593 were female students.

Students flagged for unfair means

The released results also clarified that, across both sessions combined, 150 students have been flagged for involvement in “unfair means.” This figure includes 54 students from Session-1, 57 from Session-2, and an additional 56 students whose results have been withheld pending document verification.

NIT IIIT seat availability as per AIR Ranks

Students securing an All India Rank (AIR) of less than 5,000 in JEE Main 2026 results are likely to secure a seat in the core branches of the top 5 NITs (Trichy, Warangal, Surathkal, Allahabad, and Jaipur) or at IIIT Allahabad.

Students with an All India Rank (AIR) between 5,000 and 10,000 are likely to secure core branches at NITs such as Calicut, Surat, Nagpur, Bhopal, Kurukshetra, and Rourkela, in addition to other branches at the top 5 NITs mentioned earlier.

Students whose AIR is projected to fall between 10,000 and 20,000 have a good chance of securing core branches at NITs like Jalandhar, Jamshedpur, Delhi, Goa, Agartala, Hamirpur, and Durgapur; furthermore, they may also secure core branches at institutes such as IIIT Gwalior, Jabalpur, Guwahati, Lucknow, PEC Chandigarh, BIT Mesra, IIEST Shibpur, JNU, and Hyderabad University.

Students with an AIR between 20,000 and 30,000 may find opportunities to secure core branches at NITs like Patna, Raipur, Silchar, Uttarakhand, Srinagar, Andhra Pradesh, and Arunachal Pradesh—in addition to other branches at the top 10 NITs—as well as admission to newer IIITs located in Trichy, Nagpur, Pune, Surat, Bhopal, Vadodara, Ranchi, etc.

Additionally, students with an AIR between 30,000 and 60,000 may have prospects of securing admission to core branches at NITs in the North-East region (such as Sikkim, Manipur, Meghalaya, Nagaland, and Mizoram), other branches at the top 20 NITs, and newer IIITs located in Ranchi, Dharwad, Kalyani, Kurnool, Chittoor, Naya Raipur, Manipur, Una, and Kottayam, as well as various GFTIs.

It is important to note that the likelihood of securing a college at these specified AIRs may vary depending on the student’s category (General, OBC, EWS, SC, or ST).

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Criteria for determining AIR Revised after three years due to Tie-Breaker Rules

After a gap of three years, changes have been implemented in the criteria used to determine rankings in instances where students achieve identical (tied) high NTA scores. This year, seven criteria were established; specifically, if two students obtain identical total NTA scores.

The NTA score in Mathematics is the primary factor considered for determining their All India Rank. If these scores are also identical, the Physics score is considered next, followed by the Chemistry score, and subsequently, the ratio of correct to incorrect answers.

In the event of a tie at this stage, the subject-wise ratio of correct to incorrect answers in Mathematics is examined; should a tie persist, the ratio for Physics is considered, and if a tie remains even after that, the ratio for Chemistry is used.

In instances where a tie persisted across all the aforementioned criteria, the students were assigned the same All India Rank; consequently, several students emerged this year who achieved a perfect score of 300 out of 300, and all of them were awarded All India Rank 1.