No marks awarded or deducted for not attempting the question. The JEE MAINS exam is conducted twice a year in online mode with multiple exam slots all of them having different question papers. So, all students writing a particular exam slot in India shall be administered the same question paper and will be given a Percentile which is calculated amongst students who appeared in that exam slot. The marks-Percentile co-relation varies with exam slot.
Out of the 12+ lacs students appearing for JEE MAINS every year, 2.5 lac students are selected to appear for JEE ADVANCED exam. The cut-off for qualifying into JEE ADVANCED is around 90 Percentile for General category students, about 65 Percentile for OBC-NCL candidates and as low as 45 Percentile for SC/ST candidates.
JEE MAINS TEST DETAILS
The online test series for JEE MAINS consists of Chapterwise Tests for Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics alongwith Ten (10) Full Portion Tests with the pattern and difficulty level of JEE-MAINS. The JEE MAINS has an Objective questions-based exam pattern of 90 questions (30 each in PCM) and 360 marks. Each question has four choices and only one choice is correct. If a student answers a question correctly, 4 marks are awarded and 1 mark is deducted for every incorrectly attempted question. No marks awarded or deducted for not attempting the question.