NTA JEE Main Final Answer Key 2026 On This Date; Session 1 Result for 13 Lakh Candidates by Feb 12

NTA will be releasing the JEE Mains final answer key soon on the official website - jeemain.nta.nic.in. The result declaration will follow soon, which will have the percentile scores of the candidates in Maths, Physics, Chemistry and in aggregate. Check more details below.

NTA JEE Main Final Answer Key 2026 Out On This Date; Session 1 Result for 13 Lakh Candidates by Feb 12

The National Testing Agency (NTA) has closed the JEE Main 2026 session 1 answer key challenge window. Now, NTA will review the objections received and will prepare a final answer key. The final JEE Mains answer key will be released soon with changes, if any, made by the NTA. Based on the answers in the final answer key, NTA will calculate the score of the candidates for the JEE Main 2026 session 1 result.

NTA has not announced the release date for the JEE Main session 1 final key. However, following the past year's trends, the JEE Mains final answer key 2026 can be expected on February 9 or 10.

On the other hand, for the result, NTA has announced that the scores of the candidates will be released by February 12 at jeemain.nta.nic.in. NTA may release the result on February 11 late at night or at anytime on February 12, based on last year's trend.

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Will There Be Bonus Marks in JEE Main 2026 Session 1?

Experts have mentioned that 7 questions might be dropped from the provisional answer key after careful review. In case questions are dropped from the question paper of any shift, then the candidates who have appeared in that particular shift will get bonus marks. For example, if a question is dropped from the January 21 shift 2 exam, then only those candidates who appeared for the JEE Main exam on the January 21 shift 2 exam will be eligible for bonus marks.

The final answer key will havethe details of the dropped question and the revised answers. Further challenges in the final answer key will not be invited, and this will be the final answer key based on which NTA will release the results of the students.

JEE Main 2026 Toppers for Session 1 Will Be Announced with Result

NTA will also release the toppers list for the January session exam with the result. The toppers will be all those candidates who will get 100 percentile marks in the exam. However, neither the JEE Mains cutoff for JEE Advanced qualification will be available with the session 1 result, nor will the All India Rank.

Cutoff and All India Rank will be available with the session 2 result based on the performances of the students in both attempts.

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