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How many marks and percentile are needed in jee mains for gen ews student to get nits for cse ece eee


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Anurag Khanna 5th Mar, 2022

Hello Aspirant,

See there is no any minimum percentile required to be eligible for admission in NITs for any category because the seat allotment process is based on the rank of candidate but if you are an EWS candidate and

>>>>>>> wants to get CSE branch in any of the top NITs then you should at least try for 99.2+ percentile in JEE-Main 2022 and you should try to secure at least 210+ marks out of 300 marks in JEE-Main 2022

>>>>>>> wants to get ECE branch in any of the top NITs then you should at least try for 99+ percentile in JEE-Main 2022 and you should try to secure at least 200+ marks out of 300 marks in JEE-Main 2022

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>>>>>>> wants to get EEE branch in any of the top NITs then you should at least try for 98.5+ percentile in JEE-Main 2022 and you should try to secure at least 185+ marks out of 300 marks in JEE-Main 2022

You can check out previous year's cut-offs from the official website of JOSAA as given below :-

https://josaa.nic.in/Counseling/seatallotmentresult/currentorcr.aspx


As the cut-offs are released along with the JEE-Main 2022 result so for now you can get an idea from JEE-Main 2021 qualifying cut-offs that are enlisted below :-


==>> Common Rank List (CRL) - 87.8992241-100.0000000 Percentile

==>> GEN-EWS - 66.2214845-87.8950071 Percentile

==>> Other Backward Classes (OBC-NCL) - 68.0234447-87.8950071 Percentile

==>> Scheduled Caste (SC) - 46.8825338-87.8950071 Percentile

==>> Scheduled Tribe (ST) - 34.6728999 87.8474721 Percentile

==>> PwD - 0.0096375-87.8273359 Percentile


Note that in above table it is not the actual cut-off for JEE-Main 2022 but previous year's cut-off.

You can check out previous year's cut-off trends from the link given below :-

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


You can also take JEE-Main Learning package for solving series of mock tests :-

https://learn.careers360.com/knockout-jee-main-april-one-month-subscription/?icn=jee-main-knockout&ici=c360-clevertap-sticky-articles-web

I hope this information helps you.

Good Luck!!

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