What to expect for 120 Marks in JEE Main 2025 Session 1: Aspirants who are likely to get 120 marks in the JEE Main 2025 Session 1 will be eager to calculate their percentiles and ranks. Students of general category obtaining a JEE Mains score of 120 may be given a chance to appear for JEE Advanced including those from the SC, ST and OBC categories. NITs which accept 120 marks in JEE Main Session 1 in the Female only and Gender Neutral open categories include NIT Raipur, NIT Sikkim, NIT Manipur, NIT Srinagar, NIT Hamirpur, NIT Puducherry, NIT Agartala, NIT Mizoram and many other private B.Tech institutes and deemed universities may take these candidates as well. Apart from this there are numerous possibilities for the students who get involved in the state level B.Tech counselling or state level entrance exams for B.Tech. Here is the detailed explanation of what exactly candidates can expect on 120 marks in JEE Main 2025 Session 1.

120 Marks in JEE Main 2025 Session 1: What to expect?

Below is a thorough analysis of the JEE Mains January 2025 (Session 1) and requirements of 120 marks.

• In case aspirants get 120 marks on the JEE Main January 2025 exam then there are chances that they are in the 93.9+ percentile rank. As expected, JEE Main is an exam whose results are in terms of percentiles, so you will have to look forward to JEE Main Expected Percentile Score January 2025. For instance, if a candidate’s score lies in a 93.9+ percentile, they can possibly be ranked as high as 91,500.
• The only thing that matters when it comes to scoring in the 93.9+ percentile in JEE Main 2025 Session 1 is the question paper’s difficulty. Also, those who took the January JEE Main Toughest Paper may have also scored 120 and got the 94–95 percentile. As the scores are normalised, the chances of you obtaining 120 marks and getting to the 94+ percentile or higher are minimal.
• If a candidate from the OBC, SC, and ST category scores 120 marks in JEE Main 2025 Session 1 exam, they will be considered eligible to compete in JEE Advanced 2025. SC and ST students had 60.09 and 46.69 percentile cut off respectively in 2024, while the OBC students with 79 plus percentiles were eligible for JEE Advanced.
• With a JEE Main score of 120, candidates can get admissions in various NITs like NIT Hamirpur, NIT Srinagar, NIT Agartala, NIT Mizoram, NIT Arunachal Pradesh, NIT Puducherry, NIT Sikkim, etc but they can also decide if JEE Main score gets them in the B.Tech course in Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, MP, Odisha, Haryana, Punjab, Jharkhand and Delhi states. So, if you score 120 marks, you are more likely to get into a very good private B.Tech college.
• To encourage aspirants, they are asked to take the state level B.Tech entrance exams in their states because afterall it's only the first session of JEE Main 2025. e.g., if you are a Andhra Pradesh engineering candidate, you can also appear for the AP EAMCET in addition to JEE Main for admission to prestigious colleges such as Sri Venkateswara College Of Engineering and Technology, Andhra University College of Engineering, GITAM College of Engineering Visakhapatnam, Velagapudi Ramakrishna Siddhartha Engineering College, etc.

Note: The marks vs percentile analysis and past years’ cut off trends have been considered to make the above predictions. In case the actual marks vs percentile/ cutoff is not the same, this information can be taken as a general reference by students.

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