u/AdventurousWind3476

Just wondering

17 May 2026..... 8:45 am, the paper pattern of the first JEE Advanced paper flashes in the eyes of a 180000 students. A sigh of relief for many, the paper pattern was identical to the pattern of 2025 P1. Except one thing... The MSQs only had a negative marking of -1, instead of the standard -2.

12pm... P1 ends. Students start discussing the paper among themselves. Almost everyone agreed that the paper was NOT easy.

"Paper 1 ne bhi sapne nahi dikhaye"

Break time. Many students try to gather themselves for paper 2 after a disappointing paper 1. The remaining ones, confident after a strong P1 perfomance are already ready for P2. This is where the real game is.

5:30pm. JEE Advanced 2026 is now over. P2 is being considered harder by most, but not by a huge margin. "Last year se harder tha" said every dropper who appeared for JEE Advanced 2025 as well. A moment of freedom after 2-3 years of grind for a several thousand students.

Then come in the predictions for the cutoffs. The hopium gods said "2022 jaisa jayega", the intellectuals said "2025-10 jayega".

"Physics bahut jyada hard thi" said every teacher and every student. "Chemistry P2 mein toh impossible thi". "P1 Math was hard, P2 was easy".

8pm. The official question paper is out. The top faculties of every major coaching immediately start working on creating their own provisional answer key. People are start estimating their scores. No one's exactly sure. Some underestimate with the "worst to worst case" and get into depression. "Lag toh raha hai sahi mark kiya tha but shayad nahi kiya hoga". While others delude themselves into believing they've done everything correctly.

21 May, the response sheet is out. No more delusion. Score calculators are out within a few hours. A moment of relief for some, sadness for others.

25 May, official answer key is out. No more uncertainty. Over 50k people have submitted their responses on Mathongo. It's clear to everyone now that the marks vs rank everyone predicted so far was complete hopium. Yet, many said "90% of the good students have submitted their responses, it'll be similar to 2025".

Everyone's confused, "how's it similar to 2025, if the paper was so much harder?"

Several attempts are made to prove that Mathongo was "manipulating" data. And that there aren't that many students above a certain marks threshold.

31 May, 11pm, many aspirants stay up late to wait for the results, the remaining ones go to bed. None of them were able to actually sleep.

1 June, 3am. The atom bomb. Cutoffs out on the JEE Advanced official website. 92 marks is the CRL cutoff, up from 74 in 2025. Completely unprecedented. Aspirants are unable to decipher what's going on, and within a few minutes the result is out.

Not 2022. Not 2016. Not 2025-5. Not even 2025. But 2022+40 is the final result. The rank was way worse than even the expected "worst possible case". Except for the <1000 rankers where the trend was similar to 2025.

Mathongo was the hopium all along.

It's either of tears of joy, or tears of sorrow... or

"You can't fight the years that ain't coming"

The ending some deserved, a happy ending many didn't get. Regardless of that, it's finally all over.

I've already withdrawn from BITS, help me cope please

It was never about the clothes

how to make low cortisol

Koi aur hai jisko aisa lag raha hai ki college mei bhi akele hi marna padega 🤔

Inferiority complex, napoleon complex, saare conplex feel ho rahe hai lol, itne boring bande se kaun baat karega 🥀

A lot of figures that are mentioned are WRONG

For example: Cutoff for Pilani EEE circulating everywhere is 306, but I got this at 298.

That's a MINIMUM 8 marks difference. It's probably a few marks lower.

Also, this is iter 1 lmao, chill out, a LOT of people will withdraw after this. (Including me)

The final cutoff will be within 5 marks of 2025 cutoff.

I thought I saw your face today

But I just turned my head away

Your face against the trees

But I just see the memories as they come

As they come

And I couldn't help but fall in love again

No, I couldn't help but fall in love again

I saw it glitter as I grew And loved it, boy, I never knew

I thought this place was heaven sent

But now it's just a monument in my mind

In my mind

And I couldn't help but fall in love again

No, I couldn't help but fall in love again

The cars and freeways implore me to stay

Away, out of this place

My mother said, "Just keep your head And play it as it lays"

The cars and freeways implore me to stay Away, out of this place

My mother said, "Just keep your head And play it as it lays"

I somehow see what's beautiful In things that are ephemeral

I'm my only friend of mine

And love is just a piece of time in the world

In the world

And I couldn't help but fall in love again

No, I couldn't help but fall in love again

No, I couldn't help but fall in love again

No, I couldn't help but fall in love again

No, I couldn't help

Hothon Se Choo Lo Tum — Jagjit Singh

Kal Chaudhavin Ki Raat Thi — Jagjit Singh

Mai Nashe Mein Hoon — Jagjit Singh

Aaj Jaane Ki Zidd Na Karo — Farida Khanum

Iris — Goo Goo Dolls

I Thought I Saw Your Face Today — She & Him

Cinnamon Girl — Lana Del Rey

Say Yes to Heaven — Lana Del Rey

Young and Beautiful — Lana Del Rey

Brooklyn Baby — Lana Del Rey

Diet Mountain Dew — Lana Del Rey

21 Guns — Green Day

Wake Me Up When September Ends — Green Day

Bouleyvard of Broken Dreams — Green Day

Apocalypse — Cigarettes After Sex

500 Miles — Peter, Paul and Mary

Perfect — Ed Sheeran

Heaven — Bryan Adams

Everything I Do — Bryan Adams

Cornfield Chase — Hans Zimmer

Quantum Mechanics — Ludwig Göransson

Dil Dhoondhta Hai (sad version) — Bhupinder Singh

Ek Akela Iss Sheher Mein — Bhupinder Singh

Kahin Door Jab Din Dhal Jaaye — Mukesh

Yeh Shaam Mastani — Kishore Kumar

Kiska Rasta Dekhe — Kishore Kumar

Lag Jaa Gale — Lata Mangeshkar

Jahan Mein Aisa Kaun Hai — Asha Bhosle

Kabhi Kabhi Mere Dil Mein Khayal Aata Hai — Mukesh and Lata Mangeshkar

Jaane Woh Kaise — Hemant Kumar

Atlantis — Seafret

Don't Stop Believin – Journey

Let It Be — The Beatles

I Wanna Be Yours — Arctic Monkeys

505 — Arctic Monkeys

My Heart Will Go On — Cèline Dion

A Thousand Years — Christina Perri

Take Me Home, Country Roads — John Denver

Counting Stars — OneRepublic

Let Her Go — Passenger

Riptide — Vance Joy

Memories — Maroon 5

Cold — Maroon 5

Beautiful Mistakes — Maroon 5

Stereo Hearts — Gym Class Heroes

Destiny — Neffex

Cold — Neffex

Chupke Chupke Raat Din — Ghulam Ali

Humko Kiske Gham Ne Mara — Ghulam Ali

Comment down your favourites!

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Not a joke btw, thank me later