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You have your NTA percentile and want the rank it implies. Type it in and pick a year: the count of candidates who appeared is what decides its worth.
Predicted All India Rank
13,846 to 16,923
Candidates that year
15,38,468
In 2026, that percentile came from 170 to 189 marks.
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01
Take the gap
Subtract your percentile from 100. A 99 percentile leaves 1 percent of the field ahead of you.
02
Apply the pool
Multiply that share by the candidates who appeared that year, which is why the year you pick matters.
03
Read it as a band
Ties and session merging move the real position, so the answer is a neighbourhood, not a number.
The same percentile buys a different rank each year because the candidate pool keeps growing.
The pool rose from about 11.13 lakh candidates in 2023 to 15,38,468 in 2026.
| Percentile | 2026 rank | 2025 rank | 2024 rank | 2023 rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 99.9 percentile | 1,385 to 1,692 | 1,328 to 1,623 | 1,274 to 1,557 | 1,002 to 1,224 |
| 99.5 percentile | 6,923 to 8,462 | 6,638 to 8,113 | 6,368 to 7,783 | 5,009 to 6,122 |
| 99 percentile | 13,846 to 16,923 | 13,276 to 16,226 | 12,736 to 15,566 | 10,017 to 12,243 |
| 98 percentile | 27,692 to 33,846 | 26,552 to 32,452 | 25,472 to 31,132 | 20,034 to 24,486 |
| 97 percentile | 41,539 to 50,769 | 39,828 to 48,678 | 38,208 to 46,699 | 30,051 to 36,729 |
| 95 percentile | 69,231 to 84,616 | 66,380 to 81,131 | 63,680 to 77,831 | 50,085 to 61,215 |
| 90 percentile | 1,38,462 to 1,69,231 | 1,32,759 to 1,62,261 | 1,27,360 to 1,55,662 | 1,00,170 to 1,22,430 |
| 85 percentile | 2,07,693 to 2,53,847 | 1,99,139 to 2,43,392 | 1,91,040 to 2,33,493 | 1,50,255 to 1,83,645 |
| 80 percentile | 2,76,924 to 3,38,463 | 2,65,519 to 3,24,523 | 2,54,720 to 3,11,324 | 2,00,340 to 2,44,860 |
Calculated from the official NTA count of unique candidates who appeared for Paper 1 in each year. Ranks are approximate and shown as a band.
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Subtract your percentile from 100, divide by 100, and multiply by the number of candidates who appeared. A 99 percentile against 15,38,468 candidates in 2026 gives roughly rank 15,385. The real rank varies a little because of ties and session merging, so read the answer as a range.
Around 15,000 in 2026, when 15,38,468 candidates appeared, and around 11,000 in 2023, when about 11.13 lakh appeared. The same percentile is worth a better rank in a year with fewer candidates.
The top 2,50,000 candidates in the JEE Main merit list qualify for JEE Advanced across all categories. In recent years that has meant roughly a 90 percentile for the general category, though the exact cutoff is published by NTA each year.
Use your final NTA percentile, the one computed after both sessions are merged. If you enter a session percentile from only one attempt, the rank will be off, because the merged list includes everyone from both sessions.
Because percentile to rank is an approximation. NTA applies tie breaking rules and merges normalised scores across sessions, so candidates clustered at the same percentile do not spread evenly. The calculation gets you the right neighbourhood, not the exact position.
