Dear Aspirant,

There is nothing called pass marks in jee mains per se.

It depends on you what's your idea of being pass in this examination, your extent of preparation, motivation, target and aptitude. So, following are the slabs in which a aspirant falls,

1. If you want to write this exam just for the sake of it :- Like, if you just filled the jee form mechanically and didn't prepare consciously because you know you don't want to get in any renowned institution for engineering. Any college will do good for you then any marks scored will be good.
2. If you want officially clear the cutoff marks:- If you are someone who want passing marks to clear the cutoff and to be eligible for jee advance than a score of 74 for general, 45 for obc is required.(as per 2018 cutoff marks). So to be safe a score of 80+ will be good. However this score will lead you nowhere if you fail to make it to the IITs through JEE advance.
3. If you want to get into any NIT or other gfti:- Some of the premier institution accept students through their jee mains score like DTU, nsit, iiest etc then you have to score slightly more than the cutoff. With that score you can also get into some NIT also. Some govt organisation also accept the jee mains score like DRDO. So for that the average score over the years is between 130–160.
4. If you want your favorite/best NIT with your choice of branch:- So if you want to study your choice of subject in the premier institution then you have to outperform the fellow aspirants who are equally competitive( those who are targeting for such choices). Your marks should be above 260.
5. If you only want to top the exam :- Only way to be sure about this is by scoring 100% I.e. 360 marks. Because you never know when a guy like veerval come and score full marks.

Best of luck for your exam…hope you score good.

Thank you