JEE Main 2026 session 1 results, final answer key today; what is NTA score?

The Joint Entrance Examination - Main (JEE Mains 2026) results for over 13 lakh engineering aspirants are expected to be declared today by the National Testing Agency (NTA). Along with the JEE Mains result 2026, the NTA will also upload the final answer key for BE, BTech paper 1 exams conducted in January. JEE Mains 2026 Result LIVE

The NTA is likely to upload the JEE Main final answer key and declare results on February 11, as per reports. However, some publications say the JEE Main final answer key will be out today and results will be declared on February 12.

The JEE Main session 1 result link will be hosted on the official website, jeemain.nta.nic.in and nta.ac.in.

Last year, 13,11,54 candidates had registered for session 1, of which 12,58,136 candidates appeared and recorded 95.93% attendance. The national-level engineering entrance exam was conducted as a computer-based test (CBT) in 13 languages – Assamese, Bengali, English, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu.

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What is NTA score?

The NTA will declare the JEE results based on the final answer key prepared by subject experts after reviewing the objections raised. The Coaching Federation of India (CFI) has flagged 17 errors in this year’s session 1 exams.

The NTA scores will be calculated corresponding to the raw marks obtained by a candidate in session 1 exams. Similarly, JEE Main session 2 will also be conducted in multiple shifts, and the NTA will use the normalisation method again to calculate the NTA scores for the three subjects, physics, chemistry, and mathematics, and the total scores.

The NTA scores for each of the candidates in paper 1 for session 1 as well as for session 2 will be merged for preparing the final result and overall merit ranking.

“The best of the two NTA Scores in Total (and not in individual subject) will be considered for further processing for those candidates who appeared in both sessions,” the NTA said.