JEE Advanced 2025: Admission in IIT with Even on Low Marks

Admission in IIT Seats in Reserved Category up to 37 Marks

Every student dreams of getting admission in the country’s most prestigious engineering institutes i.e. Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs). The result of the JEE Advanced 2025 conducted for this was surprising in many ways this time. Recently, in the report of the Joint Application Committee (JIC), it became clear that students have got admission in IIT even with low marks.

This time the level of the exam was considered difficult, and this is the reason why the number of students getting high marks was limited. The result was that even in the general category, a student who got only 92 marks (out of 360) got a seat in IIT. At the same time, a girl got admission on the super numerical seat with only 80 marks.

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This Time the Question Paper was Difficult

Education experts say that the JEE Advanced 2025 paper was more difficult than in previous years. This is the reason that in the general category, boys could get a seat with only 25.55% marks and girls with 22.22% marks. The total marks of the exam were 360. Due to the low scoring trend, the limit of seat allotment in counseling slipped down.

IIT Admission in Reserved Category and on Low Marks

According to the report, the situation was even different in the reserved categories. Students got IIT seats with just 37 marks. The detailed details are as follows:

EWS (Economically Weaker Section):

A student got admission with a score of 78 marks i.e. 24.67%.

A girl student got a seat with 78 marks i.e. 21.67%.

OBC Category:

Boys got admission on only 74 marks i.e. 20.55%.

Girls got seat on 66 marks i.e. 18.33%.

SC Category:

A boy got admission on 46 marks i.e. 12.78%.

Girls got seat on 43 marks i.e. 11.94%.

ST Category:

Boys got seat on 41 marks i.e. 11.39%.

At the same time, students were also selected on just 37 marks i.e. 10.28%.

JEE Advanced 2025 Cut-off Marks

The minimum cut-off released by JEE Advanced for this year’s counseling is as follows:

General Category: 74 marks

OBC & EWS: 66 marks

SC/ST: 37 marks

However, this cut-off slipped further in the seat allotment during JoSAA Counselling 2025.

In the General category, boys got seats up to 92 marks and girls up to 80 marks.

In the OBC & EWS category, boys got seats on 74 marks and girls on 66 marks.

In the SC category, boys got admission on 46 marks and girls on 43 marks.

In the ST category, students got seats on 41 marks and girls on 37 marks.

Seat Matrix and Additional Admissions

This year, a total of 18160 seats were available in the 23 IITs of the country. But according to the JIC report, this time 18188 students were given admission, that is, 28 more than the seat matrix.

Which IITs had Additional Admissions:

IIT Kanpur: 5 more

IIT Bombay and Kharagpur: 4-4 more

IIT Madras, Roorkee and Dhanbad: 3-3 more

IIT Delhi and Bhilai: 2-2 more

IIT Hyderabad, Tirupati and Dharwad: 1-1 more

At the same time, IIT BHU Varanasi had admission on 1 seat less.

Education expert said that this additional admission was possible due to Defense Super Numerical, Foreign Quota and seats available on the basis of minimum cut-off.

Lessons for Students and Parents

Hope remains even with low marks:

This year’s result clearly shows that in case of a tough exam, one can get admission in good IITs even with relatively low marks.

Cut-off changes every year:

The cut-off of JEE Advanced depends on the difficulty and competition of the paper. Therefore, students should always prepare to the maximum.

Big impact of reservation:

Students of reserved category get opportunity even with minimum marks, which increases their chances of success.

Super Numerical seats:

Super Numerical seats reserved for girls and some special categories benefited many students this time too.

JEE Advanced 2025 has once again proved that admission in IIT does not depend only on high marks, but it is linked to many factors like the difficulty of the exam, reservation system and seat matrix. While boys got seats on 92 marks and girls on 80 marks in the general category, this limit reached 37 marks in the reserved category.

The biggest learning for students is that they should focus on concepts rather than marks during preparation, as the difficulty of the exam changes every year. Also, understanding the counseling process and filling the options correctly also plays an important role in IIT admission.

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