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Subject wise cutoffs and aggregate cutoffs for IIT-JEE 2008*

1. Subject-wise cutoffs – Subject wise cutoff for IIT JEE have been regulated such that 80% of the students qualify in each subject. The cutoff marks in IIT JEE for the three subjects for General IIT  Category are:

Note: The first filtering criteria for the students of IIT JEE will be the Subject-wise cutoffs and these are not the minimum marks of the candidates actually admitted to IITs, IT-BHU and ISMU. For the actual marks obtained by the first and the last admitted candidate in IIT JEE see bottom of this page.

2. Relaxation in subject-wise cutoffs for reserved categories - The relaxation given in the subject wise cutoff for IIT JEE to the reserved categories in respect to the General category are as under:

3. Relaxed subject cutoffs for reserved categories – The subject wise cutoffs for the reserved categories are:

4. Aggregate cutoff for the Common Merit List is 172. Aggregate cutoff for IIT JEE was determined to declare the required no. of candidates (1.15 times the number of seats available) qualified:

Aggregate cutoff – 172
No. of candidates qualified – 7903

5. Relaxations in aggregate cutoff to other categories – Maximum relaxation for the students in IIT JEE as given here under or till the required number of candidates (1.15 times the number of seats available in the category, except for OBC) qualify, whichever is higher.

OBC & PD – 10% lower than the aggregate of the last qualified candidate in the common merit list.
SC & ST – 40% lower than the aggregate total of the last qualified candidate.

6. Actual Aggregate cutoff – Following aggregate cutoffs for IIT JEE have been obtained as per 5 above for preparing reserved category merit lists.

Subject-wise marks and Aggregate Total for the first and last admitted candidates