How JEE Main 2020 Rank Is Calculated

JEE Main 2020 is going to be held in two sessions: January and April. It is one of the toughest entrance exams for engineering aspirants in India. The candidates who qualify this exam can get admission in the IITs, NITs, IIITs, Centrally Funded Technical Institutions (CFTIs), and other reputed colleges of the country. The dates for JEE Main 2020 have been declared. They are January 6 to 11, 2020 and April 3 to 9, 2020. Students are free to appear in both the sessions; the exam in which they score higher will be considered for the final result. JEE Main 2020 result date for the January session is January 30, 2020; and for the April session, it is April 30, 2020. The candidates who are appearing for the exams must be eager to know all about how JEE Main 2020 rank will be calculated. So here we will tell you all you need to know about the calculation of marks and rank for the JEE Main 2020 result. The JEE Main rank predictor might not be accurate but it can give you a rough idea of your probable rank.

This year the rank will be. calculated based on the JEE Main 2020 exam result only. The marks of Class 12 will not be taken into account to calculate the All India Rank, unlike previous years. Complete weightage will be provided to the JEE Main 2020 scores to determine the JEE Main 2020 results for both attempts. The higher of the two percentiles will be considered to determine the rank, and the merit list of the candidates will be prepared based on their ranks. Around 15 lakh students will appear for the exam this year. The results will be calculated through normalization. Some students may get a tough question paper and some may get an easy one in the exam. In order to make sure that this does not benefit or disadvantage anyone, National Testing Agency (NTA) has adopted the technique of normalization to calculate the score and rank. The rank of the candidates will be obtained on the basis of their percentile scores.

Percentile is different from percentage. A percentage is a number out of 100, while percentile reflects how many candidates have obtained a lower score than a particular candidate. The percentile is based on the relative performance of all the candidates who have appeared in the exam. The exam will be held in multiple shifts each day in both sessions, so the score will be calculated through normalization. It is the technique of calculating a candidate’s actual marks or rank by creating the same level as the base for every student. The same process is used in other exams across the country to resolve similar issues.

Steps involved in normalization and in the preparation of JEE Main 2020 merit list:

1. Distribution of examinees in two days and two shifts:
   Candidates will be randomly distributed in the 4 sessions so that each session will have an approximately equal number of candidates:

• Session 1: Day – 1, Shift – 1
• Session 2: Day – 1, Shift – 2
• Session 3: Day – 2, Shift – 1
• Session 4: Day – 2, Shift – 2

2. Preparation of results for each session:
   NTA will prepare the results for each session in the form of:

• Raw marks
• The percentile score will be calculated separately for each subject: Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics. The percentile will also be calculated for the total score
• The formulae for the calculation of the percentile for each subject and the total percentile:

T1 = Total Score,

M1 = Score in Mathematics,

P1 = Score in Physics,

C1 = Score in Chemistry,

T = Total no. of aspirants who have appeared in the session,

T1P = Total no. of candidates in the session with a raw score equal to or less than the T1 score,

M1P = Total no. of candidates in the session with a raw score equal to or less than the M1 score,

P1P = Total no. of candidates in the session with a raw score equal to or less than the P1 score,

C1P – Total no. of candidates in the session with a raw score equal to or less than the C1 score

3. Compilation and preparation of overall marks:
   NTA will separately calculate the percentile of the raw score for each session and then merge the percentiles to calculate what will be known as the NTA score.