Candidates should be among the top 2,50,000 successful candidates (including all categories) in B.E./B.Tech. paper of JEE (Main) 2023.
The percentages of various categories of candidates to be shortlisted are: 10% for GEN-EWS, 27% for OBC-NCL, 15% for SC, 7.5% for ST, and the remaining 40.5% is OPEN for all. Within each of these five categories, 5% horizontal reservation is available for PwD candidates.
The following table shows the order to be followed while choosing the top 2,50,000 candidates in various categories based on the performance in B.E./B.Tech. paper of JEE (Main) 2023.
Category-wise distribution of top 2,50,000* candidates (Criterion 1)
Order |
Category |
Number of "Top" candidates |
1 |
OPEN |
96187 |
101250 |
2 |
OPEN-PwD |
5063 |
3 |
GEN-EWS |
23750 |
25000 |
4 |
GEN-EWS-PwD |
1250 |
5 |
OBC-NCL |
64125 |
67500 |
6 |
OBC-NCL-PwD |
3375 |
7 |
SC |
35625 |
37500 |
8 |
SC-PwD |
1875 |
9 |
ST |
17812 |
18750 |
10 |
ST-PwD |
938 |
* The total number of candidates may be slightly greater than 2,50,000 in the presence of “tied” ranks / scores in any category.