JEE Main 2025 session 1 official answer key out; challenge by February 6; how to calculate NTA score?

JEE Main response sheet 2025 and provisional answer key available on the official website, jeemain.nta.nic.in till February 6 up to 11.50 pm.

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Anu Parthiban | February 4, 2025 | 06:38 PM IST

NEW DELHI: The Joint Entrance Examination Main (JEE Main 2025) answer key and response sheet for all 13 lakh candidates who appeared in the session 1 exams held on January 22, 23, 24, 28, 29, and 30 has been published on the official website, jeemain.nta.nic.in. The National Testing Agency (NTA) has also activated the JEE Mains answer key challenge link for candidates to raise objections. JEE Mains 2025 Answer key (OUT) LIVE

As per the latest NTA JEE Main notification 2025, the last date to challenge the JEE Main session 1 answer key is February 6 up to 11.50 pm.

Those candidates who are satisfied with the provisional answer key, will be allowed to challenge by paying a non-refundable objection fee of Rs 200 per question. “Challenges without justification/evidence and those filed on any other medium other than the prescribed link will not be considered,” the NTA clarified.

Out of the 13.79 registered candidates, around 13 lakh appeared in the JEE Mains session 1 exams held on 6 days across 284 locations in India and 15 cities abroad in two shifts. As per the overall shift-wise JEE Main exam analysis, January 28 shift 1 was rated “the toughest” by the students.

JEE Main NTA marks of 99.5 (200-210 percentile); 99.1 (180-190 percentile), and 98.5 (164-172 percentile) will be considered as a good score , as per subject experts and previous years’ question paper difficulty level.

The provisional answer keys for JEE Main and the recorded response sheet is likely to be displayed for two to three days. Candidates are required to download the JEE Main response sheet and answer key before the deadline.

How to calculate JEE Main score 2025?

Candidates can check the marking scheme for both JEE Main BE, BTech paper 1 and BArch and BPlanning paper 2 from the table given below. Now, add the marks by matching answers in JEE Main response sheet and provisional answer key to calculate the probable score obtained in the exam. JEE Main Rank Predictor 2025 for Session 1.

JEE Main paper 1

Number of questions

Marks

Marking scheme

Mathematics

Section A - 20

Section B - 5

100

Every correct answer will fetch four marks.

One mark will be deducted for every incorrect answer.

No marks will be awarded for unattempted questions.

Physics

Section A - 20

Section B - 5

100

Chemistry

Section A - 20

Section B - 5

100

Total

75

300

Overall merit will be prepared by merging NTA scores of all

shifts of all days

JEE Main paper 2A

Number of questions

Marks


Part 1 - Mathematics

20 (Section A) and

05 (Section B)

100

Correct answer - +4

Incorrect answer - -1

Unattempted question - 0

Part 2 - Aptitude test

50

200

Part 3 - Drawing Test

02

100

Two questions evaluated out of 100 marks.

Total

77

400


JEE Main paper 2B




Part-I: Mathematics

20 (Section A) and

05 (Section B)

100

Correct answer - +4

Incorrect answer - -1

Unattempted question - 0

Part 2 - Aptitude test

50

200

Part 3 - Planning test

25

100

Total

100

400


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