Candidates should be among the top 2,50,000 successful candidates (including all categories) in B.E./B.Tech. paper of JEE (Main) 2024.
The percentages of various categories of candidates to be shortlisted are: 10% for GEN-EWS, 27% for OBC-NCL, 15% for SC, 7.5% for ST, and the remaining 40.5% is OPEN for all. Within each of these five categories, 5% horizontal reservation is available for PwD candidates.
The following table shows the order to be followed while choosing the top 2,50,000 candidates in various categories based on the performance in B.E./B.Tech. paper of JEE (Main) 2024.
Category-wise distribution of top 2,50,000* candidates (Criterion 1)
Sl No. |
Category |
Number of "Top" candidates |
1 |
OPEN |
96187 |
101250 |
2 |
OPEN-PwD |
5063 |
3 |
GEN-EWS |
23750 |
25000 |
4 |
GEN-EWS-PwD |
1250 |
5 |
OBC-NCL |
64125 |
67500 |
6 |
OBC-NCL-PwD |
3375 |
7 |
SC |
35625 |
37500 |
8 |
SC-PwD |
1875 |
9 |
ST |
17812 |
18750 |
10 |
ST-PwD |
938 |
* The total number of candidates may be slightly greater than 2,50,000 in the presence of “tied” ranks / scores in any category.
OCI/PIO card holders who have secured OCI/PIO card before 04.03.2021, are considered as Indian nationals for the purpose of seat allocation to IITs. However, these candidates are not eligible for benefits of any kind of reservation (e.g., GEN-EWS, OBC-NCL, SC, ST) with the exception of OPEN-PwD. That is, Sl No. (3) to (10) in the above table are not applicable for such OCI/PIO card holders and these candidates are required to be in the rank list in Sl. No. 1 and / or 2 in the above table.