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I GOT 40.65 PERCENTILE IN JEE MAINS SC CATEGORY CAN I GET ANY NIT,IIIT OR GFTI


arpan0720s 27th Jun, 2021
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ADITYA KUMAR Student Expert 6th Aug, 2021

Hi

With 40.65 percentile

With this rank you have extremely low chance in NITs, IIITs, GFTIS

You may not even qualify jee main

For example,

In 2020, qualifying cutoff for sc category was 50.1760245 and jee main 2021 expected qualifying cut off percentile is 50-55 percentile.

You can check the same at our page the link is provided below

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

With above  rank, you have very low   chances in NITs , IIITs,GFTIs.

For example, if we talk about nits to give you a gist

Under other state quota closing rank for some of the lower NIT for SC category is provided below as 6th josaa counselling 2020 :-

  • NIT Mizoram :- civil engineering :- 8376 sc rank

  • Nit nagaland :- Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering:- 8641  sc rank

  • National Institute of Technology Agartala, Production Engineering :- 9207 sc rank


You can verify the above at

https://josaa.nic.in/Result/Result/currentorcr.aspx

Some of the engineering colleges in which you hold a good chance on the basis of past year closing rank are listed below along with the link for their previous year cutoff :-

*Bengal College of Engineering and Technology, Durgapur :- https://www.careers360.com/colleges/bengal-college-of-engineering-and-technology-durgapur/cut-off?college_id=4831&exam_sub_exam_id=2&ici=college_view_

*Aditya College of Technology and Science, Satna :- https://www.careers360.com/colleges/aditya-college-of-technology-and-science-satna/cut-off?college_id=5070&exam_sub_exam_id=2&ici=college_view_cutoffs

*Oriental College of Technology, Bhopal:- https://www.careers360.com/colleges/oriental-college-of-technology-bhopal/cut-off


Above prediction of is on the basis of past year data but  cut off/closing rank for colleges keeps changing every year depending upon many factors like number of students that appeared in the examination, difficulty level of the JEE main question paper for different shifts etc

To have a personalised report on your chances of getting a college you can go through our college predictor, it will give you complete list of colleges which you can get on the basis of the category you belong to,  your home state, your gender etc, the link for  jee main college predictor is provided below

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

To improve your score in remaining sessions of JEE main you should focus on your preparation go through previous year question papers ,mock test papers and to help you in your preparation we have jee main knockout out for you, for which  is provided below


https://learn.careers360.com/knockout-jee-main

Thankyou




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