No leisure in IIT admission 75% Class 12 marks rule: Joint Admission Board
There might be no change within the minimal 75% marks criterion for admission to the Indian Institutes of Know-how (IITs) by way of JEE (Superior) 2026, the Joint Admission Board (JAB) clarified on Thursday amid calls for for one-time leisure in Class 12 eligibility necessities.
The calls for had been made within the wake of rising considerations amongst college students over the delay in re-evaluation strategy of Central Board of Secondary Training (CBSE) exams after the introduction of On-Display screen Marking (OSM) system this 12 months.
Responding to calls for from college students and oldsters amid delays in ultimate CBSE outcomes because of ongoing re-evaluation requests, JAB, chaired by IIT Roorkee director Kamal Kishore Pant, stated the eligibility standards can’t be lowered as a result of candidates from 36 totally different college boards take part within the admission course of.
“No leisure in marks as candidates from 36 totally different boards are taking part. We printed this criterion virtually in December and final 12 months there have been candidates who misplaced IIT/NIT seats primarily because of percentages. Therefore, reducing isn’t potential; nonetheless, we’re in shut contact with CBSE and can attempt to resolve this for all these affected candidates on precedence,” the JAB stated in a press release.
Earlier on June 1, Pant stated all JEE (Superior) certified candidates ought to take part in JoSAA counselling 2026 regardless of their Class 12 marks.
“..Nonetheless, the ultimate admission shall stay topic to the fulfilment of the percentage-related eligibility necessities and different relevant situations prescribed within the JEE (Superior) 2026 Data Brochure,” he stated.
A complete of 56,880 candidates certified JEE (Superior) 2026, a 4.6% improve over final 12 months. Of them, 46,773 are males and 10,107 are girls — the very best variety of girls ever to qualify for the examination.
The certified candidates will compete for 18,951 B Tech seats throughout 23 IITs by way of the counselling course of carried out by the Joint Seat Allocation Authority, that means solely about one in three certified candidates will finally safe an IIT seat.
Underneath IIT admission guidelines, candidates should safe at the very least 75% mixture marks in Class 12 (65% for SC, ST and PwD candidates) or be among the many prime 20 percentile profitable candidates of their respective college boards.
The JoSAA 2026 counselling registration and choice-filling course of formally opened on June 2, 2026. The window for registration and selection filling is open till June 11 and this 12 months’s counselling might be carried out throughout 5 rounds of seat allocation until July 21.
