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ADITYA KUMAR Student Expert 4th Jul, 2021

Hi

JEE main qualifying cut off is such that only a total of 2,50,000 students qualify jee main and become eligible to appear for JEE Advanced examination.

Now,

Coming to the number of students that qualify JEE main from St category, there is no fixed number but around 15,000 to 20,000 st candidates qualify, if we analyse past year results.

For example,

In jee main 2017, the number of students who qualified jee main is given below category wise:-

S.No.

Category

Cut off marks

Number of Candidates

1

ST

27

16096

2

OBC-NCL

49

60299

3

SC

32

33333

4

General

81

109585

5

PWD

1

2114

Total

-

221427

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To help you further,

If I tell you about expected jee main 2021 cut off percentile then

on analysing previous year cutoff of JEE Mains, JEE mains 2021 expected qualifying CUT OFF percentile is given below for different categories:

. . JEE MAIN CUT OFF PERCENTILE

Category jeemain2020 jeemain2021 expected off

General :- 90.3765335 90-95

GEN-EWS :- 70.2435518 70 -75

OBC-NCL :- 72.8887969 70 -75

SC :- 50.1760245 50 -55

ST :- 39.0696101 40 - 45

PwD :- 0.0618524 1- 2

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