I am from obc and I am getting 70 marks in jee mains can I get a seat in nit
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It depends upon the JEE Main and JEE Advance cut offs, If You manage to qualify the exam by achieving the cut off, You can apply for JOSAA Counselling. It should be noted the cut off for EWS/SC/ST/FEMALES/OBC category is lower than the general category
If you manage to qualify JEE Main Cutoff, You would be eligible for JEE Advance which is the intake exam for IITs as mentioned above.
However It is usually advised to fill the choices as per the preference of colleges and departments, for example CSE in NIT Trichy is your priority followed by CSE in NIT Warangal, you can fill CSE at NIT Trichy at serial number 1 and CSE at NIT Warangal at serial number 2 and so on and so forth. However to get any NIT, you must have qualified JEE Mains and to get any IIT, you must have qualifies JEE Advanced
But the previous cut offs of colleges should be taken in consideration, it is better to research over the cut off of colleges then make a preference list of colleges and fill accordingly
For the college preferences and the courses provided by these colleges and to know which colleges participate in the JOSAA counselling, please go to the below mentioned link: https://engineering.careers360.com/articles/josaa-participating-institutes
For college prediction as per your marks and rank, please go through the below mentioned link:
Rest for information on any particular college, you can dig their official site for better information
Hello Aman,
The cutoff of NITs are released in the form of ranks only. I would suggest, you check out the branch-wise cutfoff ranks for various NITs here:
https://josaa.nic.in/webinfocms/Public/View.aspx?page=71
The cutoff would give a clear idea as to what score you must target to have a fair chance at admission.
Regards.
Hello,
The JEE Main Exam cutoff for Last year was
General -81 Marks
OBC -49 Marks
SC-32 Marks
ST-27 Marks
This year the JEE Main Cutoff for 2018 could be as follows
Chekc out the JEE Mains Counselling 2018 for more details about the JEE Main Exam Counselling process
General 86-90 marks
OBC- 50-55 marks
SC - 35 to 40 marks
ST- 30-35 marks
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