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Hi
I am assuming you from general category
With 49 percentile
Your crl rank will be around 521730 - 586500 as per our rank predictor at
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Your chances in colleges like IIITs etc is extremely low. You should have got at least a rank of around 35k - 39k even for lower IIITs dear.
For example,
B.Tech/B.Arch Admissions OPEN
In 6th round of josaa counselling 2020, 39524 was closing rank for gender-neutral for general category in Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design & Manufacturing, Kancheepuram which is one of the lower IIITs and it was for Mechanical Engineering
You can check the same at
https://josaa.nic.in/Result/Result/currentorcr.aspx
You may not even qualify jee main
In 2020, qualifying cutoff for general category was 90.3765335 and jee main 2021 expected qualifying cut off percentile is 90-95 percentile.
You can check the same at our page the link is provided below
https://engineering.careers360.com/articles/jee-main-cutoff
Some of the private engineering colleges in which you hold a good chance are listed below along with the link for their previous year cutoff :-
*Oriental College of Technology, Bhopal:- https://www.careers360.com/colleges/oriental-college-of-technology-bhopal/cut-off
Budge Budge Institute of Technology, Kolkata : https://www.careers360.com/colleges/budge-budge-institute-of-technology-kolkata/cut-off
*Bengal College of Engineering and Technology, Durgapur :- https://www.careers360.com/colleges/bengal-college-of-engineering-and-technology-durgapur/cut-off
Above prediction of colleges is on the basis of past year data but cut off/closing rank for colleges keeps changing every year depending upon many factors like number of students that appeared in the examination, difficulty level of the JEE main question paper for different shifts etc so
To have a personalised report on your chances of getting a college you can go through our college predictor, it will give you complete list of colleges which you can get on the basis of the category you belong to, your home state, your gender etc, the link for jee main college predictor is provided below
https://engineering.careers360.com/jee-main-college-predictor?icn=QnA&ici=qna_answer
To improve your score in remaining sessions of JEE main you should focus on your preparation go through previous year question papers ,mock test papers and to help you in your preparation we have jee main knockout out for you, for which is provided below
https://learn.careers360.com/knockout-jee-main
Thank you
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