JEE Advanced 2025 Minimum Marks to Get IIT for OBC Category
Joint Entrance Exam - Advanced 2025 ( JEE Advanced )
The minimum marks needed in JEE Advanced 2025 to get an IIT for OBC category candidates are discussed below on this page. The article has the past few years' analysis of JEE Advanced minimum marks and the last rank needed for IIT admission by the OBC category candidates. Read below to get all details.
JEE Advanced Minimum Marks to Get IIT for OBC Category
JEE Advanced 2025 Minimum Marks to Get IIT for OBC Category: The candidates who belong to the other backward class (OBC) category usually need a minimum of 50 to 90 marks to get an IIT seat, however, last year there was a spike in the minimum marks needed in JEE Advanced to get an IIT. Last year, the OBC candidates needed 102 - 103 marks out of 360 to get an IIT seat under the gender-neutral pool of seats, whereas 98 marks were required to get a seat under the female seat pool. This was the highest JEE Advanced minimum marks needed by OBC candidates to get an IIT seat in the past 7 years.
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Also Read: JEE Advanced Minimum Marks to Get IIT for SC and ST Categories
JEE Advanced Minimum Marks and Last Rank for OBC Candidates to Get an IIT (2018 - 2024)
Check below the minimum JEE Advanced marks needed by the OBC category candidates to get admission to the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT). Along with the JEE Advanced minimum marks needed for the OBC category, the last rank has been also provided. Check the table below.
| Year | JEE Advanced Last Rank and Marks (Gender Neutral) | JEE Advanced Last Rank and Marks (Female Only, including Supernumerary) |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Will be available here |
Will be available here |
| 2024 | 8177 (102 - 103 marks) |
9291 (98 marks) |
| 2023 | 8789 (78 marks) |
9045 (77 marks) |
| 2022 | 6554 (60 - 61 marks) |
9203 (50 marks) |
| 2021 | 8959 (56 marks) |
9040 (56 marks) |
| 2020 | 6290 (76 - 77 marks) |
9209 (62 marks) |
| 2019 | 7540 (83 marks) |
7530 (83 marks) |
| 2018 | 4686 (98 - 99 marks) |
6905 (81 marks) |
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JEE Advanced 2025 Minimum Marks Needed to Qualify for OBC Candidates
While we have discussed the JEE Advanced last rank and the minimum JEE Advanced marks needed by the OBC category candidates to get an IIT, it is also to be noted that the candidates must also get minimum marks in the JEE Advanced exam to pass it and qualify for seat allotment. Qualifying the JEE Advanced exam will be the first step before seat allotment. Check below the JEE Advanced cutoff percentage needed by the OBC category candidates over the years to be included in the JEE Advanced rank list for IIT admissions:
| Year |
Minimum Marks % in Each Subject |
Minimum Marks % in Aggregate |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 |
will be available here |
will be available here |
| 2024 |
7.8% |
27.30% |
| 2023 |
6.15% | 21.50% |
| 2022 |
4.00% | 13.89% |
| 2021 |
4.50% | 15.75% |
| 2020 |
4.50% |
15.75% |
| 2019 |
9.0% |
22.5% |
The minimum marks required in JEE Mains to qualify for JEE Advanced 2025 will be announced with the JEE main 2025 final result after session 2 exams. Last year's minimum marks in JEE Mains to qualify for JEE Advanced were:
2024:
- General (UR): 93.2362181
- General (UR) PWD: 0.0018700
- Economically Weaker Section (EWS): 81.3266412
- Other Backward Classes (OBC): 79.6757881
- Scheduled Caste (SC): 60.0923182
- Scheduled Tribe (ST): 46.6975840
2023:
- General (UR): 90.7788642
- OBC-NCL: 73.6114227
- SC: 51.9776027
- ST: 37.2348772
- GEN-EWS: 75.6229025
- General (UR) PWD: 0.0013527
Candidates aiming for admission to the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) need to meet these cutoff marks in JEE Mains to be eligible for JEE Advanced 2025.
IIT Admission Criteria After Qualifying JEE Advanced for OBC Category Candidates
After qualifying the JEE Advanced exam, there are a few more criteria that the candidates must fulfil to get admission to an IIT via the JoSAA counselling, check them below:
- The candidate must have passed the 10+2 (class 12 boards) examination.
- Must have passed class XII (or equivalent) Board examination with a minimum of five subjects and secured at least 65% aggregate marks, if the candidate is from SC or ST category.
or
Must have passed class XII (or equivalent) Board examination with a minimum of five subjects and be within the category-wise (category as per the central list http://www.ncbc.nic.in, https://socialjustice.gov.in and https://ncst.nic.in) top 20 percentile of successful candidates in their respective Class XII (or equivalent) board examination.
The five subjects can be Maths, Physics, Chemistry, a language (if the candidate has taken more than one language, then the language with the higher marks will be considered), and any subject other than the above four (the subject with the highest marks will be considered).
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With a JEE Advanced AIR of 10000 to 30000, candidates can expect to get a seat in the following IITs:
- Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi
- Indian Institute of Technology (ISM) Dhanbad
- Indian Institute of Technology Bhilai
- Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar
- Indian Institute of Technology Dharwad
- Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar
- Indian Institute of Technology Goa
- Indian Institute of Technology Indore
- Indian Institute of Technology Jammu
- Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur
- Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
- Indian Institute of Technology Mandi
- Indian Institute of Technology Palakkad
- Indian Institute of Technology Patna
- Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
- Indian Institute of Technology Ropar
- Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati
Note that the above list if IITs is based on previous year's closing ranks of the IITs and are subjected to change.
A candidate can attempt JEE Advanced two times in two consecutive years. The candidates who will be appearing for JEE Advanced 2025 for the first time, can also appear for JEE Advanced 2026. Similary, candidates who have attempted JEE Advanced in 2024 for the first time can attempt JEE Advanced 2025. However, the candidates who have attempted JEE Advanced 2023 cannot attempt JEE Advanced 2025, as only two consecitive attempts are allowed in the exam. But, following a Supreme Court ruling on January 10, candidates who appeared in 2023 and dropped out of their course between November 5 and 18, 2024, are now eligible to apply for JEE Advanced 2025. IIT Kanpur has also updated the detailed JEE Advanced 2025 eligibility criteria at jeeadv.ac.in.
No. Candidates who appeared in Class XII (or equivalent) examination for the first time in 2023, are NOT eligible to appear in JEE Advanced 2025. Candidates who passed Class 12 in 2024 or 2025 are eligible for JEE Advanced 2025. Since you have appeared for class 12 boards for the first time in 2023 you are NOT eligible for JEE Advanced 2025.
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