JEE Main Result 2024: Road to IITs Gets Tougher as Cut-off Increases by 2.45%

JEE Main 2024 Session 2 Result: The National Testing Agency (NTA) released the results for the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Main 2024 session 2 on April 24. Students who took the JEE Main April session can check their scores on the official website — jeemain.nta.ac.in.

In the 2024 exams, 9.24 lakh candidates registered, and 8.2 lakh appeared for the exams held in January and April.

Increase in 100 Percentilers

This year, the number of students scoring 100 percentile has increased by 13 compared to 2023. A total of 56 candidates achieved a perfect NTA score in Paper 1 (BE/BTech), including two girls, Sanvi Jain from Karnataka and Shayna Sinha from Delhi. Last year, 43 candidates scored 100 percentile, with only one girl, Ridhi Kamlesh Kumar Maheshwari from Karnataka, among them.

In the January session, 23 students scored 100 percentile. Telangana led with seven students achieving this milestone, followed by Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, and Rajasthan with three each. Delhi and Haryana had two students each, while Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, and Karnataka had one student each scoring perfect marks.

Telangana Reports Highest Number of Toppers

Telangana reported the highest number of 100 percentilers again this year, increasing from 11 in 2023 to 15 in 2024. Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh followed with seven students each, compared to two and five last year, respectively.

Delhi NCR saw an increase from two 100 percentilers in 2023 to six in 2024, while Rajasthan had seven toppers.

State-wise 100 Percentilers:

Some states like West Bengal, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, and Chhattisgarh, which had one topper each last year, did not have any 100 percentilers this time. Uttar Pradesh, which had four 100 percentilers last year, had only one this year.

Registrations

A total of 924,636 candidates registered for both sessions (January/April) of the JEE Main 2024 examination, and 822,899 appeared. In January 2024 (session 1), 1,221,624 candidates registered, and 1,170,048 appeared. In April 2024 (session 2), 1,179,569 candidates registered, and 1,067,959 appeared.

The total number of unique candidates registered for both sessions was 1,476,557, with 1,415,110 appearing for the exams.

For session 2, 1,067,959 candidates appeared, including 377,921 general students, 134,465 general EWS, 416,440 OBC-NCL, 103,422 SC, and 35,711 ST candidates.

Last year, registrations increased from 10.26 lakh in 2022 to 11.62 lakh in 2023, with 11.13 lakh candidates appearing in both sessions held on 13 dates between January 24 and April 15.

JEE Cut-off

This year, the cut-off for general category candidates for JEE (Advanced) is 93.23, up from 90.77 in 2023, 88.4 in 2022, and 87.9 in 2021. The qualifying scores for general candidates were 90.3 in 2020 and 89.7 in 2019.

For SC candidates, the cut-off is 60.09, a significant increase from 51.97 in 2023, 43.08 in 2022, 46.8 in 2021, 50.1 in 2020, and 54.01 in 2019. The cut-off for ST students is 46.69, up from 37.23 in 2023, 26.7 in 2022, and 34.6 in 2021. The qualifying scores were higher in 2020 and 2019 at 39.06 and 44.3, respectively.

The OBC (non-creamy layer) cut-off has increased to 79.67 from 73.61 in 2023, 67 in 2022, 68.02 in 2021, and 72.8 in 2020. For EWS category candidates, the cut-off is 75.62, compared to last year’s 63.11.