JEE Advanced 2025 Eligibility Criteria - How Many Marks Needed in JEE Main?

The Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Advanced is the gateway to admission into Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), which is the dream of lakhs of students.

However, one has to clear JEE Main before clearing JEE Advanced. The total number of attempts for JEE Advanced 2025 is now limited to two attempts in two consecutive years.

While earlier, candidates could appear for the exam three times in three consecutive years. Candidates must check the eligibility criteria before filling the JEE Advanced 2025 application form.

The most important criterion that students have to fulfil to be eligible for JEE Advanced is ranking among the top 2,50,000 candidates in JEE Main.

This rank is classified on the basis of all categories like General, OBC-NCL, SC, ST, EWS and PWD. 10% for GEN-EWS, 27% for OBC-NCL, 15% for SC, 7.5% for ST and the remaining 40.5% for the OPEN category.

Within each of these five categories, 5% horizontal reservation is available for PwD candidates.

These ranks are distributed proportionately across these categories to ensure that every category gets fair representation, and candidates must also meet other eligibility criteria related to their academic and age to appear in JEE Advanced.

Category-wise distribution of top 2,50,000* candidates (Criterion 1)

*Total number of candidates can go above 2,50,000 with “tied” ranks/scores in any category.

Criterion 2: Age Limit for JEE Advanced

• Candidates must have been born on or after October 1, 2000, to meet the JEE Advanced attempt limit.
• There is a relaxation of 5 years for SC, ST, and PwD candidates (born on or after October 1, 1994).

JEE Main cut-off is determined based on several conditions. Some of the most common determining factors are the number of students appearing for the exam as more participation usually leads to tougher competition, and the toughness of the question paper determining a cut-off as a tougher question paper always determines a lower cut-off.

The number of seats in IITs and other participating institutes is another factor as fewer seats available may force the cut-off to accommodate only the best students. All these factors together result in different cut-offs for JEE Main every year.

The expected cut-off of JEE Advanced 2025 will depend on the JEE Main results.

As per the previous trend, the qualifying percentile is generally 88-90 for general category, 65-70 for EWS, 68-72 for OBC-NCL, 45-50 for SC and 30-35 for ST. In that case, the qualifying percentile for general category will be around 100-120 marks out of 300, while reserved categories will have lower qualifying marks.

This may change every year with respect to the difficulty level of the paper.

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