i am a sc caste boy and i have got 79 percentaile in jee mains so i am qualified or not?
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Hello Uday,
Congratulations for your result. I hope you're doing well.
Making prediction is difficult as cutoff depends upon various factors like :
---------------------------) number of students/ candidates that appeared in the jee main exam,
---------------------------) jee main examination difficulty level.
---------------------------) the category you belong etc.
But yes,
When we go through previous year trend then,
Minimum percentile in jee main 2021 to qualify it to be eligible for jee advanced is given below :-
--------) general :-87.8992241 percentile
--------) EWS:- 66.2214845 percentile
--------) OBC-NCL :- 68.0234447 percentile
--------) SC :- 46.8825338 percentile
--------) ST:- 34.6728999 percentile
--------) PWD :- 0.0096375 percentile
You can check the same at our page the link is provided below
https://engineering.careers360.com/articles/jee-main-cutoff Going through this data, you're very much elegible for jee advance test. You can also predict the best colleges under this rank for SC category by clicking on the link given below:
https://engineering.careers360.com/jee-main-college-predictor?utm_source=qna&utm_medium=jee_cp
All the best for your upcoming exams.
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