JEE Mains 2018: CBSE to declare results by April 30; click here for answer keys, cut-off marks and more

Over 10.43 lakh aspirants appeared for the Indian Institute of Technology-Joint Entrance Examination (Mains) 2018, which was conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on Sunday.

The examination took place at 1,613 centres in 104 cities across the country and in eight centres in abroad.

"The sixth edition of JEE (Main) 2018 offline exam was held for approximately 10,43,739 candidates registered for admission to undergraduate engineering programmes in NITs, IITs and other centrally funded technical institutes etc," CBSE said in a release.

However, the answer keys for the JEE (Mains) are expected to be released by April 24. As per the CBSE official website, the score and rank of paper 1 are scheduled to be declared by April 30.

This score will comprise the actual marks obtained in paper 1 of JEE (Mains) and the status of aspirants who qualify for appearing in JEE (Advanced).

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In 2018 JEE (Mains) candidates faced difficulties in solving Mathematics and Physics paper. While the majority of students complained about Maths paper of being lengthy, others found the Physics paper tough to crack.

Going by the experts’ prediction, the cut-off for the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Mains 2018 will be between 95 to 105. Prof Uday Nath Mishra of Basic First expects the cut off to go around within 80 to 90.

"Expected cut off is 80(+-5%) marks out of 360. The paper was moderate and based on NCERT. Chemistry was the lengthiest. Organic chemistry was found more difficult, physical chemistry was more numerical based, whereas, inorganic chemistry was easy. Maths was mostly based on class 12 syllabus and physics was based on class 11 syllabus," Mishra was quoted by a leading daily.

While the offline exam was conducted on Sunday, April 8, the JEE Mains online mode will be held on April 15 and April 16.

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Out of these candidates, about 2.2 lakh candidates would be short-listed for the JEE Advanced 2018 and will get an opportunity to compete for around 10,000 seats in the various Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) across the globe.