JEE Main uses percentile to rank students. Percentile shows how a student did compared to others. It is different from marks or percentage. NTA calculates it using a special method for fairness.
New Delhi, 22 Sep 2025
JEE Main 2026 uses percentile to rank students. Percentile shows how a student did compared to others. It is different from marks or percentage. NTA calculates it using a special method for fairness.
How JEE Main Percentile is Calculated
NTA uses a method to make sure the test is fair for all students. They look at how many students took the test and how each student did. Then they give each student a percentile score. This score shows how many students did worse than them. If there are different test sessions, NTA makes the scores equal. This is called normalization. It helps when some tests are harder than others.
What Percentile Means for College Admission
Different colleges need different percentile scores. For top NITs, you might need 95 percentile or more. For good state colleges, 80 percentile might be enough. But this changes every year. It also depends on if you are in a special group like OBC, SC, or ST. A high percentile does not always mean you will get into a college. Other things like your category and state also matter. If you’re preparing for JEE Main 2026, you’ve probably heard the terms percentile, rank, normalization, etc., many times. But what exactly is JEE Main Percentile? How is it different from marks or percentage? How does NTA calculate it, especially with multiple sessions or shifts? In…
Your percentile = (94,000 / 100,000) × 100 = 94.00 percentile
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Updated 22 Sep 2025, 14:26 IST; source: link
