The minimum cutoff for the general category this year is 90.7 percentile, up from 88.4 in 2022. The cutoff for the unreserved category was 88.8 percentile in 2021 and 90.3 in 2020, the two years which were hit the most by the pandemic. The cutoff for the OBC category rose to 73.6 percentile this year from 67 in 2022 and 68 in 2021.
For EWS category, the cutoff increased significantly this year, registering 75.6, as compared to 63.1 in 2022. For SC, after it dropped to 43 in 2022 from 54 in 2019, the cutoff rebounded to 51.9 this year.
The qualifying percentile for STs, too, increased substantially this year at 37.2 from 26.7 in 2022. A total of 2,51,673 candidates qualified for JEE (Advanced), with the maximum number of successful candidates from Uttar Pradesh (31,432), followed by Maharashtra (24,205) and Telangana (23,750).
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JEE (Main) 2023: For the first time, women account for over 30% of JEE candidates
Of the 1,11,3325 candidates who took JEE (Main) 2023, a total of 2,51,673 qualified to take JEE (Advanced) as against 2,62,157 in 2022.
Among those who qualified are 2,685 candidates from the “persons with disabilities” category, 98,612 from general, 67,613 OBC aspirants, 37,563 SC candidates and 18,752 STs. A total of 25,057 candidates from the EWS category qualified to take JEE (Advanced).