JEE Main 2026 Session 2 Result Analysis

JEE Main 2026 Session 2 was conducted over April 2-8, 2026, across multiple shifts. NTA released the provisional answer key on April 11-12, gave candidates until April 13 to raise objections (at ₹200 per question, refunded for accepted challenges), and declared the final result on April 20, 2026 — a turnaround of under two weeks from the last exam shift to the result, in line with NTA's typical processing timeline for JEE Main.

As with every JEE Main cycle, NTA computes each candidate's final All India Rank using the better of their Session 1 (January 2026) and Session 2 (April 2026) percentiles. This means the Session 2 result mattered most for candidates who improved on their January attempt — a large share of test-takers use Session 1 as a practice run and treat Session 2 as their primary attempt, especially after seeing their January percentile and identifying weak areas.

The result also confirmed JEE Advanced 2026 eligibility: 2,50,182 unique candidates across all categories and both sessions qualified for JEE Advanced, with the General category (CRL) cutoff at 93.41 percentile. This cutoff, along with each category's cutoff, determines the eligibility pool for JEE Advanced, which subsequently determines IIT seat allotment through JoSAA — while the wider JEE Main rank list determines NIT, IIIT, and GFTI seat allotment for all qualified candidates, not just the JEE Advanced-eligible top 2.5 lakh.