National test agency (NTA) conducts JEE exams for the students interested in taking admissions in engineering colleges. Every year NTA conducts JEE exams twice in a year. Firstly, students give JEE Mains exam and, if they pass the mains exam then they are allowed to give JEE Advanced exam. After passing JEE Advance, students get options to take admission in colleges based on their score in the exam.
This year National test agency (NTA) announced the result of JEE Mains for the 1st session on 31st January, 2020 and for 2nd session on 30th April,2020. There are more than 100 colleges in India who accept the scorecard of JEE. This gives students vast options to have opportunity to take admission in engineering college.
National test agency released the JEE Mains cutoff for 2020 in online mode after the result was announced. The candidates who fulfill the prescribed JEE Mains cutoff are allowed to attempt JEE Advanced exams.
JEE Mains exams were conducted in online mode i.e. computer based test. Total time allowed to students was 3 hours’ maximum. All the questions are asked in multiple choice questions (MCQ) format.
Subjects that you need to prepare for JEE exams are Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics.
Factors that determine JEE Mains cutoff
Apart from the marks scored by the students there are some other factors also involved which affect determination of cutoff of JEE Mains results. Here is a list of the factors determining JEE Mains cutoff:
- Number of application received.
- Number of questions asked in exam.
- Difficulty level of exam.
- Performance of students all over India.
- Previous years cutoff trend.
Cutoff
This article provides expected JEE Mains cutoff, 2020 list category wise, institute wise and branch wise.
| Category | Cut-off |
| General category | 81-87 |
| Economically weaker section (EWS) | 78-83 |
| Other backward class (OBC) | 48-54 |
| Scheduled caste (SC) | 33-35 |
| Scheduled tribe (ST) | 30-36 |
| People with disability (PwD) | 0.113 |
Cutoff 2018
Here is a list of candidates who qualified JEE Mains in 2018. Also, this list provides minimum and maximum marks scored.
| Category | Qualified | Max. marks | Min. marks |
| General | 111275 | 350 | 74 |
| Other backward caste (OBC) | 65313 | 73 | 45 |
| Scheduled caste (SC) | 34425 | 73 | 29 |
| Scheduled tribe (ST) | 17256 | 73 | 24 |
| People with disability (PwD) | 2755 | 73 | -35 |
| Total | 231024 |
Previous years JEE Mains cutoff list
This list provides you an idea about the trend that cutoff followed in previous some years. This list will give you an idea about almost how much marks you need to score to get admission in engineering college of your choice.
| Category | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 |
| General | 81 | 100 | 105 | 115 | 113 |
| Other backward caste (OBC) | 49 | 70 | 70 | 74 | 70 |
| Scheduled caste (SC) | 32 | 52 | 50 | 53 | 50 |
| Scheduled tribe (ST) | 27 | 48 | 44 | 47 | 45 |
NIT participating in JEE Mains 2020
Here is a list of all the National institutes of technology (NIT) that participate in JEE exams. This gives students an idea about the number of colleges they can get admission in, after clearing both JEE Mains and JEE Advanced.
| S. No. | Name of colleges |
| 1 | National institute of technology, Calicut, Kerala. |
| 2 | National institute of technology, Raipur, Chhattisgarh. |
| 3 | National institute of technology, Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh. |
| 4 | National institute of technology, Manipur. |
| 5 | National institute of technology, Delhi. |
| 6 | National institute of technology, Sikkim. |
| 7 | Maulana Azad National institute of technology, Bhopal , Madhya Pradesh. |
| 8 | National institute of technology, Mizoram. |
| 9 | National institute of technology, Agartala, Tripura. |
| 10 | National institute of technology, Durgapur, West Bengal. |
| 11 | National institute of technology, Goa. |
| 12 | National institute of technology, Kurukshetra, Haryana. |
| 13 | National institute of technology, Uttrakhand. |
| 14 | National institute of technology, Patna, Bihar. |
| 15 | National institute of technology, Puducherry. |
| 16 | National institute of technology, Surathkal, Karnataka. |
| 17 | National institute of technology, Andhra Pradesh. |
| 18 | Malviya National institute of technology, Jaipur, Rajasthan. |
| 19 | Sardar Vallabhbhai National institute of technology, Surat, Gujarat. |
| 20 | National institute of technology, Tiruchirapalli, Tamil Nadu. |
| 21 | De B R Ambedkar National institute of technology, Jalandhar, Punjab. |
| 22 | Motilal Nehru National institute of technology, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh. |
| 23 | National institute of technology, Silchar, Assam. |
| 24 | National institute of technology, Rourkela, Odisha. |
| 25 | National institute of technology, Nagaland. |
| 26 | National institute of technology, Arunachal Pradesh. |
| 27 | Visvesvaraya National institute of technology, Nagpur, Maharashtra. |
| 28 | National institute of technology, Warangal, Telangana. |
| 29 | National institute of technology, Jamshedpur, Jharkhand. |
| 30 | National institute of technology, Hazartbal, Shrinagar, Jammu and Kashmir. |
| 31 | National institute of technology, Meghalaya. |
This article provided all the required information that you needed to have about JEE Mains cutoff. Hope this article is helpful for the students preparing for JEE exams.
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