NEW DELHI: The National Testing Agency (NTA) has released the final answer key for JEE Main Session 2 BE/BTech (Paper 1) and has dropped two questions from Physics.
The results, scorecards, and the All India Rank (AIR) list will be released shortly, as per the NTA’s earlier announcement.
Around 11 lakh students who appeared for the exam between April 2 and April 8 can download their scorecards from the official website, jeemain.nta.nic.in.
Around 11.23 lakh candidates appeared for Session 2 of JEE Main 2026 this year. For Paper 1 (BE/BTech), about 11.06 lakh candidates registered, with an overall attendance of nearly 93 per cent.
Candidates who qualify in JEE Main will be eligible to appear for the JEE Advanced examination, scheduled for May 17, which serves as the gateway to admission into premier institutes such as the IITs.
The JEE Main cut-off is the minimum percentile required for candidates to qualify for JEE Advanced and participate in JoSAA counselling.
For direct link to download the final answer key, click here.
NTA Score
Scores for Paper 1 and Paper 2 are calculated using the final answer key.
Raw (actual) marks are first computed based on the JEE Main 2026 marking scheme —four marks are awarded for each correct answer, while one mark is deducted for every incorrect response.
Since the exam is conducted in multiple shifts, these raw scores are then normalised and converted into NTA scores to ensure fairness across all sessions.