Overview
- NTA, which posted Tuesday a detailed note on X, set out how percentiles, raw marks and normalisation work after Monday's JEE Main Session 2 results.
- Shift data from the April 2–8 papers shows candidates needed 165 to 196 marks to reach the 99th percentile, a 31-mark gap out of 300.
- The process calculates percentiles within each shift and then merges those percentiles to build one merit list, while raw marks set rank only inside a single shift.
- Only two shifts produced a perfect 300, and in one shift a top score of 285 still counted as a 100 percentile because no one scored higher on that paper.
- Media coverage notes student confusion over percentiles and ranks continues despite the clarification.