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JoSAA Counselling 2025: Category-wise Class 12th top 20 percentile cut-off marks for BTech admission

For admission to an IIT, candidates are required to have completed their Class 12 board exams with a minimum of five subjects, obtaining an aggregate score of at least 75 per cent or be in the top 20 percentile list.

JoSAA counselling 2025: top 20 percentile marks board-wise (representative image/ Freepik)

The Joint Seat Allocation Authority (JoSAA) on June 10 announced the category-wise top 20 percentile cut-off marks for the 2025 board exams. The top 20 percentile criterion will be considered to determine the candidate’s eligibility for admission to BTech programmes. In addition to the top 20 percentile cut-off for 2025, the josaa.nic.in website is making the top 20 percentile cut-off for 2023 and 2024 available.

JoSAA Counselling 2025 Explained: Who can participate? How is a BTech seat in IIT, NIT allocated?

JoSAA is responsible for conducting counseling for admission to the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), National Institutes of Technology (NITs), Indian Institutes of Information Technology (IIITs) and some government funded technical institutes (GFTIs). JoSAA will be regulating the joint seat allocation for admissions to 127 institutes for the academic year 2025-26. This includes 23 IITs, 31 NITs, IIEST Shibpur, 26 IIITs, and 46 Other-Government Funded Technical Institutes (Other-GFTIs). The registration and choice filling for JoSAA round 1 counselling started on June 3.

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JoSAA 2025 Counselling: Category-wise top 20 percentile cut-off marks

For admission to an IIT, candidates are required to have completed their Class 12 board exams with a minimum of five subjects, obtaining an aggregate score of at least 75 per cent. There exist relaxations for candidates belonging to the Scheduled Caste (SC), Scheduled Tribe (ST), and Person with Disabilities (PwD) categories, the minimum aggregate marks required are 65 per cent, or be in the top 20 percentile list. The top 20 percentile may vary from board to board. Here’s list of some boards:

Council	Gen	Gen-EWS	OBC-NCL	SC	ST	PwD
Andhra Pradesh Board	475	464	464	446.5	437	437
Assam Boar	303	303	317	300	277	277
Bihar Board	345	359	334	314	317	314
CBSE	419	411	411	388	375	375
CGBSE	387	381	381	370	356	356
CISCE	449	438	438	426	384	384
MP Board	409	400	400	391	372	372
Maharashtra Board	361	361	368	344	346	344
RBSE	436	436	439	425	417	417
UP Board	461	461	464	450	408	408

In case a Board does not provide information about the cut-off for the top 20 percentile, the candidate will have to produce a certificate from the respective Board stating that he/she falls within the top 20 percentile of successful candidates. If the candidate fails to do so, then the cut-off marks, in the respective categories, for the Central Board of Secondary Education will be used.

The seat allocation process through JoSAA would involve six normal rounds. After this, the CSAB will conduct two special vacant seats filling rounds for the NIT+ system.

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