Hello,

Yes, 98 percentile is a decent percentile score. Considering the previous year qualifying cut off you may qualify in JEE Main if you have a score of 98 percentile. Here is the qualifying cut off percentile in 2020 for JEE Main category-wise

• General:90.3765335
• OBC-NCL:72.8887969
• EWS:70.2435518
• SC:50.1760245
• ST:39.0696101
• PWD:0.0618524

The expected cut off percentile is as follows for JEE Main 2021

• General: 90-95
• OBC-NCL/EWS: 70-75
• SC: 50-55
• ST: 40-45
• PWD: 1-2

Cut off depends on number of candidates qualified, difficulty level of examination, number of seats available, previous year cut off etc. It may slightly increase or decrease. You may also have chances of getting seat in NIT/IIIT. If you are interested to get admission in IIT you may also start your preparation for JEE Advanced.

To read our article on JEE Main percentile vs marks trends use the link below

https://engineering.careers360.com/articles/jee-main-marks-vs-percentile

To read our article on JEE Main 2021 cut off use the link below

https://engineering.careers360.com/articles/jee-main-cutoff

Dear student,
If you get around 98 percentile if you would have scored 125-130 marks in jee mains out of 300 marks. And at this percentile you can expect around 15,000-20,000 rank in general category. According to me this is a good rank and will give you good opportunities regarding admission in some good colleges. For more info on rank vs marks vs percentile records you may visit the following link:
https://engineering.careers360.com/articles/jee-main-marks-vs-percentile/amp
To know which colleges you can get at this percentile you can visit the link of our college predictor tool:
https://engineering.careers360.com/jee-main-college-predictor?icn=QnA&ici=qna_answer

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