Only Top 1,50,000 candidates across JEE Main Merit List of various categories will be eligible for taking JEE Advanced exams. These candidates are distributed across merit lists in the following manner:

50.5% candidates or Top 75,750 candidates from the Common Merit List (CML),

27% candidates or Top 40,500 candidates from the Other Backward Classes-Non Creamy Layer OBC(NCL),

15% candidates or Top 22,500 candidates from the Scheduled Caste(SC),

7.5% candidates or Top 11,250 candidates from the Scheduled Tribe(ST).

3% of Total Seats in Each Category are reserved for Persons with Disability (PwD) candidates. Hence, 2,272 seats from General (GE) category are for PwD candidates. Similarly, 1,215 of OBC seats, 675 of SC seats and 338 of ST seats are for PwD candidates of their respective categories