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Your final category will be General - EWS for both the attempts if you have successfully changed it during the correction window of session 2 , then it will become your final category that will be used to evaluate your results and used during counselling.

By any chance if you miss the correction window , then your session 1 General status will be used , so don't miss the correction window it will be open in Late February 2026 . After correcting it your both attempts will be evaluated under Gen - EWS category , but you must have the EWS certificate ready to upload during counselling.

For more you can visit the link :- https://engineering.careers360.com/articles/jee-main-application-form-correction

In this link you can scroll down and under the heading " JEE Main 2026 Application Correction Important dates " you can check the timelines for session 2 Correction window release date and last date.

Hope this will help!