JEE Main 2026 Percentile VS Expected Rank: The National Testing Agency has released JEE Main Session 1 final answer keys and has dropped around 8 questions. For the dropped questions, candidates who have attempted will get full marks. With the release of the final keys, the result is awaited by the aspirants. Candidates aiming for top NITs, GFTis, or IIITs need to secure 95+ percentiles in the engineering entrance exam.
NTA will share the results in the form of percentile scores, which will be derived from raw scores after the normalisation method. Based on the percentile score, ranks will be determined. Students securing 99 percentile can expect a rank of less than 6000. Based on previous year trends, we have provided JEE Main 2026 percentile vs expected rank detailed analysis on this page.
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JEE Main 2026 Percentile Vs Expected Rank
By analysing previous year trends in percentile score and its equivalent rank, we have prepared JEE Main 2026 percentile vs expected rank analysis in the table below:
| JEE Main Percentile | Expected Rank |
| 99.9+ | <=1,500 |
| 99.5 | <=7,500 |
| 98 | <=30,000 |
| 97 | <=45,000 |
| 96 | <=60,000 |
| 95 | <=75,000 |
| 94 | <=90,000 |
| 93 | <=105,000 |
| 92 | <=120,000 |
| 91 | <=135,000 |
| 90 | <=150,000 |
| 86 | <=210,000 |
| 82 | <=270,000 |
| 79 | <=315,000 |
| 75 | <=375,000 |
| 71 | <=435,000 |
| 67 | <=495,000 |
| 64 | <=540,000 |
| 60 | <=600,000 |
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According to the data of the NTA from previous years, the expected rank of a candidate will be around 5500 for the percentile obtained of 99.50 in the JEE Main 2026 Session 1 Exam.
In the JEE Main 2026 Session 1 Exam, the expected rank of a candidate according to the data of the NTA from previous years will be around 14000 for the percentile obtained of 99.0.
On the official website, a candidate will get all the information for the JEE Advanced 2026 Exam. The official website for this exam is: https://jeeadv.ac.in/.
In the JEE Main 2026 Session 1 Exam, the expected rank of a candidate according to the data of the NTA from previous years will be around 4200 for the percentile obtained of 99.60.
In the JEE Main 2026 Session 1 Exam, the expected rank of a candidate according to the data of the NTA from previous years will be around 3000 for the percentile obtained of 99.75.
According to the data of the NTA from previous years, the expected rank of a candidate will be around 2650 for the percentile obtained of 99.80 in the JEE Main 2026 Session 1 Exam.
According to NTA data from previous years, the expected rank for a candidate with a percentile of 99.999 in the JEE Main 2026 Session 1 Exam is around 20.
The expected rank of a candidate will be around 750 for the percentile obtained of 99.90 in the JEE Main 2026 Session 1 Exam, according to the data of the NTA from previous years.
In the JEE Main 2026 Session 1 Exam, the expected rank of a candidate according to the data of the NTA from previous years will be around 1900 for the percentile obtained of 99.850.