JEE Main April 2025 Result Highlights: Updates on final answer keys, results, cut-off

The National Testing Agency (NTA) has released the final answer keys. In this session, two questions have been dropped by the Agency from the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Mains Session 2 2025 Paper 1.

In a statement released today, IIT Delhi said their undergraduate students secured around 850 unique offers to date. The number of unique offers this year is better than the offers received in the last three years: 712 in 2022, 768 in 2023, and 781 in 2024. Further, the offers are expected to increase as the placement season is still continuing.

Recruiters with double-digit offers to UG students on campus this year so far include American Express, Barclays, BCG, BlueStone Jewellery & Lifestyle Private Limited, Deutsche India Pvt. Ltd., Google, Graviton Research Capital, Meesho, Microsoft, Oracle, PayU, Squarepoint Capital, and Texas Instruments.

The Central Consumer Protection Authority (CCPA) on Thursday issued a stern warning to coaching centres to avoid misleading advertisements and unfair trade practices as IIT-JEE examination results approach. The consumer rights watchdog has advised coaching institutes to strictly follow the 2024 guidelines set for such entities.

According to an official statement, coaching centres must ensure their representations are "accurate, clear, and free from misleading claims". The CCPA emphasised that advertisements should transparently disclose key details including students' names, ranks, course types, and whether courses were paid for.

The authority has explicitly cautioned coaching centres against making "assurances of guaranteed success" and mandated that disclaimers be displayed prominently in the same font size as other important information.

The CCPA has already taken significant enforcement action in this sector, issuing 49 notices and imposing penalties totalling Rs 77.60 lakh on 24 coaching centres for violations. These centres have been directed to discontinue misleading advertisements and unfair trade practices. Previous CCPA actions have targeted coaching centres offering services for various competitive examinations, including UPSC CSE, IIT-JEE, NEET, RBI, and NABARD, among others

The exam held on April 2 was considered moderate overall. The JEE Main April 2 paper was described as “balanced but lengthy.” Physics was moderately tricky, mathematics was lengthy and moderate, and chemistry was relatively easy. Shift 2 maintained a similar trend, with chemistry rated the easiest, physics moderate, and mathematics the most challenging.

The application process for the JEE Advanced 2024 has started on April 7 for foreign national candidates including OCI and PIO candidates at the official website — jeeadv.ac.in. The registration link will remain open till May 2 for all candidates.

The exam held on April 2 was considered moderate overall. The JEE Main April 2 paper was described as “balanced but lengthy.” Physics was moderately tricky, mathematics was lengthy and moderate, and chemistry was relatively easy. Shift 2 maintained a similar trend, with chemistry rated the easiest, physics moderate, and mathematics the most challenging.

As many as 13,11,544 candidates registered for the JEE Main 2025 paper 1 exam in session 1. Of them, as many as 12,58,136 (95.93 per cent) candidates appeared. Among them, 4,24,810 were female candidates, with 1,59,378 from the general category, 44,762 from EWS, 40,282 from SC, 12,965 from ST, and 1,67,423 from OBC categories.

Male candidates accounted for 8,33,920, including 3,06,980 from General, 93,937 from EWS, 82,563 from SC, 26,994 from ST, and 3,22,851 from OBC. Additionally, one candidate identified as a third gender was from the OBC category.

In session 1, paper 1, Ayush Singhal, Kushagra Gupta, Daksh and Harsh Jha, among others, were the toppers.

The NTA conducted the JEE main session 2 exam on April 2, 3, 4, 7, and 8 for Paper 1 (BE, BTech), while Paper 2 (BArch and BPlan) was conducted on April 9.

Not all students of IIT Delhi are availing on-campus placement services, the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (IIT D) has revealed through an exit survey commissioned by the institute amongst the students who graduated in August 2024.

In this exit survey, 1411 (53.1 per cent) students confirmed that they have received a job offer. On the other hand, 224 (8.4 per cent) students responded that they were self-employed, whereas 45 (1.7 per cent) students informed that they are working for a start-up and 66 (2.5 per cent) students were involved in entrepreneurship.

As per the exit survey, 359 (13.5 per cent) IIT Delhi students responded that they are going for higher studies, 47 (1.8 per cent) PhD students informed that they are waiting for a post-doctoral research opportunity or for a faculty position. Similarly, 321 (~ 12.1 per cent) students informed that they are preparing for different examinations, for example, civil services, engineering services, and examinations required for different government jobs.

With the placement season beginning at the Indian Institute of Technology (IITs) from December 1, many students have opted to sit out and not participate in this placement season. Why? They have managed to secure a PPO.

When students secure a placement offer before the placement drive starts on campus, that offer is called a pre-placement offer (PPO). The journey to securing a PPO begins over a year before the on-campus placement drive begins. Many engineering students take up summer internships during their course of study, be it as part of their curriculum or their own exploration. After successful completion of their internship period, some students are offered a full-time position by the company which changes their status from an intern to a permanent employee in that company.

The internships that students secure can be attained on-campus or off-campus, depending on students’ exploration and the institute’s partnerships. Pre-Placement Offer (PPO) is increasingly gaining popularity among IIT students. For example, IIT Madras (in the 2022-23 placement season) stated that the institute received a record-breaking 350 PPOs after the 2022 summer internships.

IITs provide 20% supernumerary quota to female students. The quota was implemented in 2018 based on the recommendations of a committee led by then IIT-Mandi Director Timothy Gonsalves, which called it “the required slight push”. While most IITs implemented a 14% quota for women in 2018-19, by 2019-20 it stood at 19% and by 2021-22, most of them had 20% seats for women. Six years on, data obtained by The Indian Express under the Right to Information (RTI) Act from 21 of the 23 IITs reveals a steady increase in the number of women entering these prestigious institutes. Read more

The number of women rose from 908 women in 2017 to 2,124 in 2024 – a 133% jump at IIT-Kanpur. At IIT-Roorkee, the number went up from 1,489 in 2019-20 to 2,626 in 2024 — a 76.36% jump. IITs in Chennai, Mumbai, Guwahati and Kharagpur, too, saw similar increases. IITs Delhi and Bombay crossed the 20% threshold in 2017 — even before the quota was implemented. Of IIT Delhi’s 2,878 students that year, 607 or 21.09% were women. In the first semester of 2024 at IIT Delhi, that number stood at 840 — a rise of 38.39%. In the case of IIT Bombay, of 2,790 students in 2017, 570 or 20.43% were women.

Candidates can check the final answer keys from the official website, jeemain.nta.nic.in

The NTA considers these factors before uploading the JEE Main 2025 percentile score. As the final answer key is out, NTA might also announce the JEE Main result

— The total number of candidates who appeared for the JEE Main in 2025

— Highest raw score achieved by a JEE candidate in that particular session

In case a candidate is not happy with the final answer key or need assistance with the JEE Main 2025 score, they can reach out to the official helpline at 011-40759000 or email jeemain@nta.ac.in.

Candidates can check their expected ranks using the Indian Express rank predictor

Visit to the official website at Jeemain.nta.nic.in

– Select the answer key link given on the home page.

– Login using date of birth (DOB) and application number.

– Click on the submit button and the final answer key will appear on the screen.

– Candidates are advised to download and take printouts for future reference. 

–Ayush Singhal – Rajasthan
–Kushagra Gupta – Karnataka
–Daksh – Delhi (NCT)
–Harsh Jha – Delhi (NCT)
–Rait Gupta – Rajasthan
–Shreyas Lohiya – Uttar Pradesh
–Saksham Jindal – Rajasthan
–Saurav – Uttar Pradesh
–Vishad Jain – Maharashtra
—Arnav Singh – Rajasthan
–Shiven Vikas Toshniwal – Gujarat
–Sai Manogna Guthikonda – Andhra Pradesh
–S.M. Prakash Behera – Rajasthan
–Bani Brata Majee – Telangana

Candidates can also check their rank:  JEE Main rank, click here

JEE Main NTA scores are the normalised scores across multi-session papers and are based on the relative performance of all those who appeared for the examination in one session. The JEE Main 2025 marks obtained are converted into a scale ranging from 100 to 0 for each session of examinees. NTA score is not the same as the percentage of marks obtained. The NTA score of a candidate has been calculated as follows:

(100 X Number of candidates appeared in the ‘Session’ with raw score equal to less than the candidate) / Total number of candidates who appeared in the ‘Session’

Candidates who rank within the top 2.5 lakh performers in the JEE Main 2025 exam will be eligible to appear for the JEE Advanced 2025 exam. JEE Advanced is a centralised gateway to admission in the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs).

The National Testing Agency (NTA) concluded the paper 1 exams of the second session of the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) on April 9.

Going by recent trends, the general category cutoff is expected to be between the 93 to 95 percentile, which is approximately equivalent to about 85–90 marks out of 300. For OBC-NCL and EWS candidates, the cutoff is likely to be a bit lower, about 91 to 93 percentile, with scores around 80–85 marks.

For SC candidates, the cutoff percentile is likely to be around 82 to 86 and for ST candidates, around 73 to 80 percentile. This implies that candidates belonging to these categories might need to secure between 50 to 65 marks. PwD candidates are likely to have a lower cutoff of around 40 to 45 percentile, IIT alumnus and co-founder said.

According to the JEE Main 2025 dates released in the official NTA information brochure, the JEE Main 2025 session 2 result will be released by April 17.

"I joined the institute in July 2024. I had never lived in a hostel or for that matter anywhere away from home. It was only after I left for college that I realised I wouldn’t be going back home for a while. I’ve always liked roti sabzi so the mess food wasn’t too bad at first, though by now I’ve grown tired of it. After 2 years of seeing the same group of 30 or so batchmates in my coaching, it was nice to meet a lot of new people. I’m not a very social person but I enjoy spending time with my friends. Finding friends didn’t feel too difficult, most people were in the same boat as me." Here's how Aneesh Rao from IIT Ropar say about life in IIT.

In the Chemistry section of the JEE Main 2025 session two, the question asked the aspirants to find the boiling point when two moles each of Ethylene Glycol and glucose are mixed with 500 ml of water. What could have been the correct answer to this question? Here’s what ChatGPT and DeepSeek gave as the solution.