Dear Candidate ,
Unfortunately, the qualifying percentile for the SC category this year is around 61.15 , which means you did not clear the cutoff for JEE Advanced and are not eligible for admission into NITs , IIITs, or GFTIs through JoSAA counseling .

Dear Candidate ,
Best Counseling Options
-JoSAA - chance for lower NIT/IIIT in ECE , EE , ME .
-State counseling - prefer your home state quota (like UPSEE , MHT , CET , MP DTE )
-Private Colleges - Apply to VIT , SRM , Shiv Nadar , UPES

Dear Candidate ,
With a JEE Main Rank of 251,208 admission to B. Tech Food Technology at NIFTEM Thanjavur is not possible , as their closing rank is around 95,000. Consider Karnataka state counseling ( KEA ) for other colleges or private colleges accepting your rank .

With a JEE Main B.Arch rank of around 35,834, you have a good chance to get admission in several government and private colleges. Some options might include state government colleges or private universities that accept JEE Main Paper 2 scores.

Top NITs or IITs may be difficult with this rank,

If you are female and scored 20,799 in JEE Main 2025, you have an equal opportunity to get into Computer Science Engineering (CSE) or Artificial Intelligence (AI) at several IIITs. If you look at previous years' closing ranks, these IIITs have placement opportunities that won’t require extremely high ranks:

There

With a JEE Main rank around 20,799, as a girl, you have a good chance to get admission in some IIITs (Indian Institutes of Information Technology) for CSE or AI branches. IIIT Hyderabad and IIIT Bangalore might be tough, but IIITs like IIIT Pune, IIIT Hyderabad (if waitlist), IIIT Guwahati,

With 66 percentile in JEE Mains as an SC category student, it will be tough to get admission in top NITs because their cutoffs are usually higher. But you may have a chance in some lower-ranked NITs or Government Funded Technical Institutes (GFTIs) that have lower cutoff marks.

You should

Hello there,

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Hello Naveen,

With a rank of 25,983 in AEEE and 69.01 percentile in JEE Mains, your chances for Mechanical Engineering at Amrita Bangalore campus are low because the cutoff for Mechanical Engineering is usually much better (closer to top ranks).

Amrita’s Bangalore campus generally requires higher ranks or percentiles for