The National Testing Agency (NTA) held the first session of JEE Main 2024 from January 24 to February 1, for which the result was declared on February 13 morning. The JEE Main 2024 cut-off will be the determining factor for the eligibility to register for JEE Advanced and admission to the IITs, NITs, IIEST, IIITs and other-GFTIs. JEE cut-offs depend on various factors, including the number of total candidates, availability of seats at participating institutions, previous year's trends and the difficulty level of the exam. According to Saurabh Kumar, chief academic officer of Vidyamandir Classes, the expected cut-off for JEE Main 2024 session 1 will vary category-wise and will be as follows: – General: 89.75 – EWS: 78.21 – OBC: 74.31 – SC: 44 – PWD: 0.11 According to Infinity Learn by Sri Chaitanya, going by the difficulty level of the multiple shifts of the exam, the 99.5 percentile score will hover around 184 to 200. Here is a detailed percentile and marks required. Percentile Marks Required Jan 27 Shift 1 Jan 27 Shift 2 Jan 29 Shift 1 Jan 29 Shift 2 Jan 30 Shift 1 Jan 30 Shift 2 Jan 31 Shift 1 Jan 31 Shift 2 Feb 1 Shift 1 Feb 1 Shift 2 99.5 200 190 193 200 198 185 184 187 196 189 99.00 - 99.49 190 175 177 185 183 168 165 170 180 173 98.00 - 98.99 172 154 158 165 162 149 145 150 160 153 97.00 – 97.99 155 138 142 148 145 132 128 133 144 136 96.00 – 96.99 142 125 128 133 131 118 115 120 130 121 95.00 – 95.99 132 114 117 120 119 107 103 110 118 111 94.00 – 94.99 124 105 107 110 109 100 95 101 108 102 93.00 – 93.99 115 98 99 102 102 95 91 95 100 97 92.00 – 92.99 108 93 93 96 96 89 86 90 95 92 91.00 – 91.99 103 88 89 92 93 85 82 86 91 89 90.00 – 90.99 99 85 86 90 89 80 77 82 88 85 According to data shared by NTA, 95.8 per cent of the registered candidates appeared for paper 1 (BE / BTech) in the JEE Main January 2024 exam. This is one of the highest percentages of attendance for JEE Main since NTA has started conducting JEE Main examination, NTA said. Out of the 12,21,615 candidates registering for JEE Main paper 1, as many as 11,70,036 candidates appeared. The JEE Main session 1 BArch paper was taken by 55,493 candidates out of the total 74,002 registered candidates. Apart from the 544 exam centres in 291 cities, JEE Main session 1 was also conducted in 21 cities outside India. The session 1 result is set to be declared on February 12. The NTA has released the final answer keys of the JEE Main paper 1 already. The JEE Main 2024 answer keys have been released at the NTA’s official websites – nta.ac.in and jeemain.nta.ac.in.
