Two different cut-offs get called "the JEE Main cut-off". One decides JEE Advanced eligibility. The other decides college admission. This page separates them, then checks your percentile against the right one.
NTA publishes a category-wise qualifying percentile with the JEE Main result. Crossing it means you are among the candidates eligible to register for JEE Advanced. It says nothing about which college you will get. College admission depends on the separate institute-wise opening and closing ranks published through JoSAA, and those are typically far tighter than the qualifying cut-off. In recent cycles the Open category qualifying percentile has sat in the low nineties, which is a much easier bar than the closing rank of even a lower NIT for CSE. Students who confuse the two either celebrate too early or panic for no reason.
The Open row compares against the whole pool. EWS, OBC-NCL, SC and ST rows are separate and typically lower. Comparing your EWS percentile against the Open cut-off is a common and avoidable mistake.
The tool tells you whether you clear the published cut-off for your category, and by how much, so the answer is binary instead of vague.
Candidates with a benchmark disability are judged against the separate PwBD cut-off published with the result. If that applies to you, look for that row specifically.
Eligibility settled, the real decision starts: what institute and branch does your rank reach? That is a different dataset entirely.
Download the official cut-off notice and keep it with your scorecard. Every third-party table on the internet, this one included, is a convenience copy.
The qualifying cut-off is a percentile bar for JEE Advanced eligibility. The college cut-off is an institute-branch closing rank published through JoSAA. They are different numbers for different purposes and must never be compared to each other.
The qualifying percentile rows reproduce the values NTA published with the result for B.E./B.Tech, including how many candidates qualified in each category. Where a college figure is shown, it is a JoSAA closing rank and is labelled as such.
The absolute percentile shifts with paper difficulty and applicant numbers, but the relative ordering of categories has been stable. Plan on the ordering, and re-check the absolute numbers each cycle.
Cleared the cut-off? Register for JEE Advanced and start Advanced-specific preparation immediately, because the gap between the two papers is real.
Not cleared, or aiming at NITs? Your college decision runs on rank, so open the college predictor instead.
No percentile yet? Estimate one from marks first with the marks vs percentile calculator.
In the most recent published cycle the Open category qualifying percentile was 93.1023262. The 2026 value will be published with the result, and it usually shifts by a small margin rather than dramatically.
The eligibility rule keeps the top 2,50,000 successful B.E./B.Tech candidates, with the total allowed to exceed that slightly when there are tied scores.
No, and this is the most widespread misunderstanding in JEE. The qualifying cut-off is an eligibility bar. The NIT cut-off is an institute-branch closing rank from JoSAA, and it is normally much harder.
No. It guarantees eligibility for JEE Advanced and nothing else. A seat depends on your rank, your category, your quota and the choices you fill during counselling.
Not through JoSAA for NITs, IIITs and GFTIs, because the same qualifying requirement applies. State counselling and private admissions have their own, separate criteria.
Yes. Each reserved category has its own qualifying percentile row, typically lower than the Open row, and each is published separately with the result.
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