Hello,

Basically Getting 96.5 percentile means you are ahead of 96.5 %students appeared for exam.

In that case best choices are as follows:-

1. NIT, Tiruchirapalli.
2. NIT, Warangal.
3. NIT, Suratkal.
4. MNNIT, Allahabad.
5. NIT, Calicut.
6. MNIT, Jaipur.
7. MANIT, Bhopal.
8. VNIT, Nagpur.

In this rank you can get less demanding branch in top 15 nits. But if you want better then better to study hard for next jeemains and jee advance you can do much better.

For more information about your chances then please go through the following college predictor link:-

https://engineering.careers360.com/jee-main-college-predictor?icn=QnA&ici=qna_answer

Hope for the best.

Thank you.