How Many Marks to Qualify JEE Advanced? Cutoffs & Percentile Explained

Two Different Cutoffs, Two Different Questions

Students usually mix up two separate cutoffs. First, the JEE Main cutoff decides whether you are among the top ~2,50,000 candidates eligible to write JEE Advanced. Second, the JEE Advanced qualifying criteria decide whether your Advanced score puts you in the Common Rank List (CRL) for IIT admission. You need to clear both, in order.

JEE Main Cutoff to Qualify for JEE Advanced

The eligibility cutoff is announced as an NTA percentile alongside the JEE Main Session 2 result. Recent years have looked roughly like this:

In marks, a ~93 percentile has recently corresponded to roughly 85–105 marks out of 300 depending on the session difficulty — but always target percentile, not raw marks, because normalisation varies by shift.

Marks Needed Inside JEE Advanced (Rank List Criteria)

To appear in the JEE Advanced Common Rank List you must score a minimum percentage in each subject and in aggregate. The officially notified criteria are typically around 10% per subject and 35% aggregate for CRL, but IITs have often relaxed these downward depending on the year's difficulty — some years the effective aggregate cutoff has been in the low twenties.

• Qualifying for the rank list is not the same as getting an IIT seat — popular branches need far higher scores.
• A rough recent trend: ~90–100 marks out of 360 for a CRL rank, ~150+ for older IITs, ~200+ for CS at top IITs. Treat these as directional, not guarantees.
• Category-wise relaxations apply to both subject-wise and aggregate minimums.

The reliable way to beat any cutoff is chapter-wise PYQ practice — JEE Advanced repeats concepts far more than it repeats questions. Practice free solved Advanced PYQs on JeeHub.