Do my +2 marks affect my IOE rank?
No. The entrance result carries 100% of the weight. Your +2 result decides only whether you are eligible to sit.
The booklet is explicit: the weight of the entrance result is 100%. Nothing from your +2 is carried into the rank.
What your +2 actually does
- It determines eligibility: Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics in classes 11 and 12, and either 45% of total marks or a minimum C grade in every subject under letter grading.
- It does not contribute to your merit position.
- A strong +2 does not lift your rank, and a weak one does not lower it, provided you clear the bar.
Where +2 marks do come back
Not in the rank, but in some colleges’ own scholarship assessments, which may look at +2 aggregate alongside the entrance rank. That is a college pricing decision rather than part of the IOE merit system, and it varies, so ask each college what it actually uses.
What follows for how you spend the year
If your goal is a good rank, entrance preparation is the whole of it. The most common misallocation is a student splitting effort to lift a +2 aggregate that will not appear in the calculation.
Section 3.2.3 of the booklet, page 11.
Sources
- IOE B.E./B.Arch Booklet 2083 · published 7 August 2026 · read 18 August 2026
Last reviewed by Ram Raj Thapa, Admissions Officer, Imperial College of Engineering. Every figure on this page is cited to the document it came from.