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JEE Main Marks vs Percentile 2026

Updated 17 July 2026 · Reconstructed from recent NTA sessions

Enter your JEE Main marks to estimate your NTA percentile and a rough All India Rank — and see the full marks-vs-percentile reference table below. Unlike most charts, we are upfront that this mapping is a reconstruction: NTA never publishes it, and it shifts every session.

Why marks-to-percentile is not fixed

NTA computes your percentile per shift to cancel out how hard your particular shift was, so the same marks buy a different percentile in an easy shift versus a hard one. That is why NTA never publishes a marks-to-percentile table and every chart online is a reconstruction. Use this for a ballpark; the number that gives a reliable rank is the percentile on your scorecard. For that, use the JEE Main rank predictor.

Estimated percentile
98.0929
Approx All India Rank
17,604–46,944
on 2026 appeared numbers
Marks entered
150/300

This maps your marks onto a reconstructed marks-to-percentile curve, then to a rank on 2026 appeared numbers. It is a rough guide — the band is deliberately wide. Enter your scorecard percentile in the rank predictor for a reliable estimate.

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JEE Main marks vs percentile table

Approximate NTA percentile and All India Rank for each marks band, reconstructed from recent sessions and shown on 2026 appeared numbers (about 15,38,468 candidates). Read it as a ballpark, not a promise.

Marks (/300) Approx percentile Approx All India Rank
300 100.0000 1–2
280 99.9962 35–93
260 99.9669 305–814
250 99.9523 440–1,174
240 99.9155 780–2,080
220 99.7819 2,013–5,368
200 99.5750 3,923–10,461
180 99.1731 7,633–20,355
160 98.53 13,586–36,229
150 98.09 17,604–46,944
140 97.54 22,680–60,480
120 96.07 36,289–96,771
100 93.80 57,212–1,52,566
90 92.22 71,827–1,91,538
80 90.28 89,758–2,39,354
70 87.52 1,15,218–3,07,248
60 83.89 1,48,700–3,96,533
50 78.35 1,99,837–5,32,898
40 69.58 2,80,804–7,48,811
30 56.09 4,05,316–10,80,842
20 36.58 5,85,376–15,61,002

Percentiles are reconstructed (NTA does not publish a marks-to-percentile table) and are least reliable below ~200 marks, where a few marks swing the percentile sharply. Ranks scale with the number of candidates who appeared, so the same percentile gives a slightly different rank each year.

Percentile is not percentage

This is the single most common JEE Main mistake. Your percentage is your marks out of 300. Your percentile is the share of candidates who scored at or below you. So a 99 percentile does not mean you scored 99% — it means you outscored 99% of everyone who appeared. Because the topper of every shift is normalised to exactly 100 percentile regardless of raw marks, several candidates can hold a perfect 100 percentile in the same year. When you are planning around JEE Advanced eligibility or JoSAA counselling, work in percentile and rank — not in marks.

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Frequently asked questions

What is the difference between marks and percentile in JEE Main?

Marks are your raw score out of 300. Percentile is the share of candidates who scored at or below you — so 99 percentile does not mean 99% marks, it means you did better than 99% of the candidates who appeared. NTA computes percentile per shift to cancel out how hard each shift was, which is why the same marks can mean different percentiles in different sessions. The topper of each shift is set to exactly 100 percentile regardless of raw marks.

Is there an official JEE Main marks vs percentile table?

No. NTA does not publish a marks-to-percentile table, and it cannot, because the mapping changes every session with paper difficulty. Every marks-vs-percentile chart you see online — including this one — is a reconstruction from past sessions. We show it because students genuinely want a ballpark, but the honest input for a reliable rank is the percentile printed on your NTA scorecard, not your marks.

How accurate is a marks to percentile estimate?

Reasonable near the top and increasingly rough lower down. Above roughly 200 marks the reconstructed curves broadly agree; below that they diverge by two to four times, because a huge number of candidates are packed into a narrow score band and a few marks swing the percentile a lot. Treat the numbers here as a directional guide, and use your actual scorecard percentile once results are out.

How does best of two sessions affect my percentile?

JEE Main runs in two sessions (usually January and April). If you sit both, NTA keeps the higher of your two total percentile scores — not the average — and your final rank is computed on that best score across the combined pool of unique candidates. A weaker session simply gets discarded.

What percentile do I need for around 250 marks in JEE Main?

On recent sessions, roughly 250 marks maps to about the 99.95 percentile — i.e. inside the top ~0.05% and broadly in the low-thousands All India Rank range. But this is exactly the region where a few marks move the percentile sharply, so use it as a ballpark and confirm with your scorecard.

What is a good percentile in JEE Main?

For JEE Advanced eligibility you need roughly the 93+ percentile (General) — about the top 2.5 lakh candidates. For a good NIT the useful percentile depends heavily on category, home-state quota and branch, so there is no single number; a 99+ percentile puts most General candidates in contention for strong branches at many NITs, but always check the official JoSAA closing ranks for your exact case.

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