Hii aspirant
Hope you are doing well amid covid-19 pandemic
This type of doubt is common among the aspirants after they know their score and rank of JEE mains entrance at the same time they are bit anxious to and try to avoid any type of mistake that could cost them in regards with their seat
So as you enter the counselling stages and are about to fill the counselling form you have to make sure that what are your prefrences in terms of stream and institute, always go with your passion and interest rather than going for any stream you get even if you are not getting your desired college
As it will decide your course of future and entire professional life
Moreover when you shortlist your prefrences than search the internet for previous year cut off in the stream and college you are targeting and in this way you will get to know  about which prefrences to will
To help you with this I am sharing a link with you which will clarify your doubt please go through it

https://www.google.nl/amp/s/engineering.careers360.com/articles/jee-main-cutoff/amp

Moreover you can even predict your college and stream by using a awesome tool whose link I am sharing with you
https://engineering.careers360.com/jee-main-college-predictor?icn=QnA&ici=qna_answer
Definitely it will answer all your queries
Hope it helps

Hello student,

You can check the previous year cut off for various colleges on the internet.In JOSAA counselling,while filling in the choices, you get the list of all the colleges you can apply to.Fill in your interested colleges in the choices carefully and please do not make a mistake,as this can decide this future.All the best