ELIGIBILITY FOR IIT JEE 2018
All the candidates must fullfil each and every one of the following five criteria to appear in JEE (Advanced) 2018. Criterion 1 – Performance in JEE (Main) 2018 : Candidates should be among the top 2,24,000* (including all categories) in Paper-1 of JEE (Main) 2018. The percentages of various categories of candidates to be shortlisted are: 27% for OBC-NCL, 15% for SC, 7.5% for ST and the remaining 50.5% is OPEN for all. Within each of these four categories, 5% horizontal reservation is available for PwD candidates. The following table shows the order to be followed while choosing top 2,24,000* candidates in various categories based on the performance in Paper-1 of JEE (Main) 2018. Category-wise distribution of top 2,24,000* candidates (Criterion 1) ORDER CATEGORY Number of “Top” candidates 1 OPEN 1,07,464 Total 1,13,120 2 OPEN-PwD 5,656 3 OBC-NCL 57,456 Total 60,480 4 OBC-NCL-PwD 3,024 5 SC 31,920 Total 33,600 6 SC-PwD 1,680 7 ST 15,960 T