JoSAA JEE Main 2025 Counselling: Round 1 Cutoff, Seat Allotment Result, Documents Required, Fees, Online Resporting

Candidates who appeared in JEE Main 2025 are eligible to participate in the counselling for admission to all the participating institutes of JoSAA through JEE Main scores. Candidates with a rank in JEE Advanced will be admitted to IITs through JoSAA.  Admissions to all 23 IITs, 31 NITs, 25 IIITs and GFTIs will be through JoSAA counselling. The allotment of seats will be based on choices filled by the candidates during JoSAA 2025 registration. Candidates must go through JoSAA eligibility criteria before appearing in the counselling process. Some important highlights of JoSAA are

• JoSAA organises a combined counselling process for admission of JEE Main and JEE Advanced qualified candidates in IITs, NITs, IIITs and GFTIs.
• The counselling for vacant seats after JoSAA counselling will be organised by Central Seat Allocation Board (CSAB)
• Supernumerary seats in colleges of the North East and Union Territories locations are allocated by special counselling CSAB NEUT
• Central Seat Allocation Board will also conduct a separate counselling procedure CSAB SFTI for 18 Self Financing Technical Institutes (SFTIs).

The JoSAA 2025 Cutoff has been released for all 6 rounds of counselling. Candidates can check here JoSAA round 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 cutoff 2025. Candidates can check here the JoSAA 2025 cutoff for all six rounds. The Joint Seat Allocation Authority has released the round-wise seat allotments for various programs offered by 107 participating institutes including the IITs, NITs, IIITs and GFTIs.

JoSAA 2025 Cutoff

JoSAA 2024 Cutoff

JEE Main Cutoff 2021

Candidates can have an idea about the JEE Main 2021 cutoff by going through the table below:

JoSAA 2020 Cutoff: Round 1 to 6

The eligibility criteria for admission to various participating institutes will be released by JoSAA. Check the details below.

JEE Main eligibility for admission to NITs, IIITs and CFTIs, SFIs

The authority will offer admission to BTech/BArch/planning courses in the NITs, IIITs and GFTIs based on All India Rank (AIR). All candidates need to have minimum 75% marks in class 12 examination (for SC/ST candidates the minimum requirement is 65% in class 12). 

JEE Main eligibility criteria for BArch and BPlan admission

• Architecture students have to pass the qualifying examination with 50% marks in Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry and 50% in aggregate of the qualifying exam.
• For BPlanning candidates should have passed class XII or qualifying exam with 50% in Mathematics and 50% in aggregate of the qualifying exam.

JEE Main eligibility for other institutions

• The above criteria will also apply to other Technical Institutions participating in counselling through JoSAA/CSAB.
• In case a State opts to admit students to the engineering Colleges affiliated with State Universities, the State may prepare a separate rank list based on criteria decided by them.
• Provisional seat allotment letter
• Original JEE Main 2025 admit card
• One passport size photograph same as uploaded during the application form filled up
• JEE Main 2025 scorecard issued by NTA
• Proof of Photo ID by government
• Class XII board mark sheet
• Category and Medical certificate (if any)

The counselling of JEE Main is completely online and candidates need to register online on the JoSAA portal. Given below is a list of all the documents that are required for registering and participating in JEE Main 2025 counselling.

• Provisional JEE Main seat allotment result

• 3 passport-size photographs (the same as uploaded during registration)

• Photo identity card

• Proof of fee payment (seat acceptance)

• Proof of Date of birth

• JEE Main Admit Card 2025

• Marks sheet of Class XII examination

• JEE Main 2025 scorecard

• Category certificate (if applicable)

CSAB conducts centralised counselling for four categories as mentioned below:

1. CSAB Special Round: For vacant seats after JoSAA final round for all NITs, IIITs and CFTIs across India. The Central Seat Allocation Board (CSAB) will conduct two special rounds of JEE Main counselling. Candidates with a valid JEE Main 2024 score can participate in the special round of counselling.

2. CSAB NEUT: For supernumerary seats in NITs for Union Territories, and in some AICTE-approved institutes for North East and Union Territories (NEUT). CSAB counselling process will be conducted for 12 North East and Union Territories which includes Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Manipur, Nagaland, Sikkim, Tripura, Dadar & Nagar Haveli, Daman & Diu, Andaman & Nicobar and Lakshadweep.

3. CSAB Supernumerary: For the supernumerary round of counselling for Union Territories (UTs) of Andaman & Nicobar, Dadar & Nagar Haveli, Daman & Diu, Lakshadweep & Khandvi

The counselling of JEE Main 2025 consists of various processes. Candidates need to complete each step to participate in the counselling. The detailed step-by-step procedure of counselling is described here.

Step 1: Registration - Firstly, candidates have to visit the official website of JoSAA. Candidates who will appear in JEE Main 2025 or JEE Advanced 2025 need to register to participate in the counselling. Below are steps to fill the JoSAA 2025 registration form online:

• Visit the official website of JoSAA
• On the login page, enter JEE Main 2025 application number, password and security pin.
• Read the instructions and click on the 'I Agree' option
• JoSAA counselling form will be displayed
• Fill the form and click on ‘Confirm Registration’

Step 2: Choice Filling & Locking: In the second step, candidates will be required to lock their college and course preferences. Seats will be allotted to aspirants based on their availability and choices filled by them. Below are the steps of online choice filling and locking.

• On the online form, select a choice of colleges and courses
• Candidates can opt for edit/change/delete choices
• After verifying, lock the choices
• Candidates can lock their choices after each round of counselling

Step 3: JEE Main 2025 Seat Allotment - Seats will be allotted to the candidates based on their ranks obtained in JEE Main /JEE Advanced. Candidates who are allotted seats need to exercise the Freeze, Float or Slide option.

• In case the candidate selects the Freeze option, the allotted seat will be locked in name of candidate and he/she can not participate in the future round counselling.
• If Float option is selected, the seat gets locked but candidates can also participate in future rounds
• In case Slid option is selected, the allotted seat gets cancelled and the candidate moves to the next round.

Step 4: Payment of Seat Confirmation Fees - Candidates who select the Freeze/Float options have to pay the seat acceptance fees online to confirm their admission, and upload the scanned copies of their educational documents and category certificate (if applicable). After online verification of the documents and successful payment of the fee, a provisional admission letter will be issued to the candidates. Candidates have to download the admission letter and check the instructions mentioned in it for the balance fee payment, and date of reporting to the allotted institute. 

JEE Main Counselling 2025 Fee Payment

Step 5: Reporting to the Allotted Institute - Candidates have to report to the allotted institute and pay the remaining fees within the date mentioned in the allotment letter. Candidates also need to carry the original copies of the documents that were uploaded online at the time of seat confirmation. 

• Candidates will be offered admission based on the choices filled by them and JEE Main All India Rank (AIR) 2025 through JEE Main seat allocation process.
• The candidates will be able to make their choices online for branches/programs and institutes at an appropriate time.
• The verification of documents will be done at the time of the seat allocation process/admission.
• During this process, the conducting authority will verify different records regarding age, identification, qualifying examination, state of eligibility, category and disability (if any) of the candidate.
• Candidates who fail to produce any of the documents, will not be considered for admission.
• Candidates belonging to Gen-EWS, SC, ST, OBC and PwD categories will be required to produce the original certificate as per prescribed formats issued by the competent authority at the time of JEE Main 20255 seat allotment process as well as at the time of admission.