JEE Mains 2026 Answer Key: Total 9 Questions Dropped; Result Scorecards Today

JEE Mains 2026: The National Testing Agency (NTA) released the Joint Entrance Examination - Main (JEE) 2026 Session 1 Paper 1 (BE/BTech) final answer key today, February 16, 2026. Students who appeared for the exams can download the final answer key online on the official website at jeemain.nta.nic.in. The answer key is released as a PDF so candidates do not require their credentials to access the document. 

Candidates can use the answer key to calculate their approximate scores before the result declaration. The agency releases the revised JEE Mains 2026 Session 1 final answer key after taking the objections raised by students into consideration. The final answer key, as compared to the provisional answer key, has dropped 9 questions after revision. 

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How to get JEE MAins 2026 Session 1 Final Answer Key?

Candidates can get their JEE Mains 2026 final answer key online by following the mentioned steps:

1. Visit the official website at jeemain.nta.nic.in
2. On ‘LATEST NEWS’, click on the ‘Final Answer Keys of JEE(Main)-2026 [Session-I] [Paper-I (B.E. / B.Tech)]’ link
3. Check and use it to calculate your estimated scores

Official link: Final Answer Keys of JEE(Main)-2026 [Session-I] [Paper-I (B.E. / B.Tech)]

Changes in JEE Man 2026 Final Answer Key

In the revision, a total of nine questions were removed from the answer key evaluation. Everyone who took the test session gets full marks for those dropped questions, which might increase their final scores and rankings. The final answer key must be used to calculate the final results, instead of the provisional one.

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